Description of problem: when i'm trying to re-provision rhel6 virtual guests (or real machine) to rhel5, after restart kickstarting stops on kickstart wrong url. kernel passes to anaconda only half (+-) of whole url. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. prepare satellite to be able kickstart rhel6 and rhel5 2. register rhel6 machine (real, virtual) 3. re-provision it to rhel5 4. check state of kickstarting Actual results: anaconda asking for correct kickstart url. displayed is only half of correct url. Expected results: anaconda ks paramater parsed correctly Additional info:
I looks like hostname and path is shorten, and then kickstart is not downloaded.
grub.conf looks fine. The screen shots/data provided indicate that *something* is cutting off the hostname/url removing 'edhat.com'. It seems more like an anaconda issue, but would like it investigated some more. Cliff
The kernel command line as shown in comment #4 is longer than what we can digest in RHEL-5 (255 char limit). Matter of fact, if you'd be reprovisioning RHEL-5 to RHEL-5, you'd get a message from koan telling: ... Kernel options are too long, 255 chars exceeded. ... Since you're doing RHEL-6 -> RHEL-5, the thing passes (I'm guessing that we don't have this limitation in RHEL-6). The only solution for this I can think of is to hack koan (or spacewalk-koan perhaps) to not to include all the cmdline options from default kernel when creating the record for the re-provisioning (so that our options can actually fit into the cmdline length limit).
*** Bug 640668 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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