Description of problem: I have synced RHEL6 to Galactica and tried to reprovision RHEL5 system to RHEL6. Provisioning seems to be stuck. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Galactica Satellite-5.4.0-RHEL5-re20100921.0-x86_64-embedded-oracle.iso How reproducible: 1 of 1 Steps to Reproduce: 1. Sync RHEL6 channel from Errata.stage and RHEL6 RHN Tools channel from WebDev 2. Create RHEL6 kickstart, all defaults just: Kickstart Details -> Advanced Options -> vnc: ON System Details -> Troubleshooting -> Extra Kernel Parameters (for auto-kickstart only): "console=ttyS0,9600n8 acpi=noirq" 3. Register RHEL5 (channels synced from WebDev, packages were not signed, not sure why) system and try to provision it. Actual results: After this screen on console redirection there is no move: > Booting 'kick1285569683' > > root (hd0,0) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > kernel /vmlinuz ro root=/dev/myvg/rootvol console=ttyS0,9600n8 ks=http://ne > c-em6.rhts.eng.bos.redhat.com/cblr/svc/op/ks/system/ > fjs-0-17.rhndev.redhat.com:1 ksdevice=link kssendmac lang= text > [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x3400, size=0x37bf80] > initrd /initrd.img > [Linux-initrd @ 0x364ae000, 0x1b416d9 bytes] Expected results: Provisioning should work as expected
mbanas have discovered, that my stuck provisioning attempt was caused by this piece of code: # Loop until the RHN rpm is installed if [ "$rhn_keys_found" = "yes" ]; then while : ; do sleep 10 if [ -d /mnt/sysimage/root ] ; then cp -af /tmp/rhn/* /mnt/sysimage/root/systemid.old break fi done & fi When I ran `mkdir -p /mnt/sysimage/root` installation continued. Regards, Jan
I suspect this same code was causing my test provision of RHEL 5 i386 Server to rlx-3-10 to hang yeesterday evening as well. From logs it never got out of %pre. Cliff
This should be fixed as of: spacewalk: d3e9593c5a070f48de07f3cd1a2cf9b2fd7dca4d satellite: 4fea101541e8e286bc39d3120a172cb4bd5e6a25
Note: re-provisioning of RHEL 6 is still broken due to bz 637905
same procedure like previous comment. provisioning of RHEL6 is wroking, except provisioning rhel6 from rhel5 on ppc (bug 645756) and incorect ifcfg-eth0 on s390x causing non-working network after reboot (522251). both platforms must be provisioned without file preservation.
The 5.4.0 RHN Satellite and RHN Proxy release has occurred. This issue has been resolved with this release. RHEA-2010:0801 - RHN Satellite Server 5.4.0 Upgrade https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/errata/details/Details.do?eid=10332 RHEA-2010:0803 - RHN Tools enhancement update https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/errata/details/Details.do?eid=10333 RHEA-2010:0802 - RHN Proxy Server 5.4.0 bug fix update https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/errata/details/Details.do?eid=10334 RHEA-2010:0800 - RHN Satellite Server 5.4.0 https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/errata/details/Details.do?eid=10335 Docs are available: http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Network_Satellite/index.html Regards, Clifford