Bug 911728 - Fedora 18 Kickstart doesn't behave when "url --url=<url>" is used
Summary: Fedora 18 Kickstart doesn't behave when "url --url=<url>" is used
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 18
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-02-15 19:28 UTC by Nahum Shalman
Modified: 2013-08-21 18:33 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2013-08-21 18:33:13 UTC
Type: Bug
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
Kickstart file broken as is, working if line 8 is commented out (1.91 KB, text/plain)
2013-02-15 19:28 UTC, Nahum Shalman
no flags Details
anaconda.log as requested (4.26 KB, text/plain)
2013-02-18 13:46 UTC, Nahum Shalman
no flags Details
packaging.log as requested (7.69 KB, text/plain)
2013-02-18 13:46 UTC, Nahum Shalman
no flags Details

Description Nahum Shalman 2013-02-15 19:28:24 UTC
Created attachment 697962 [details]
Kickstart file broken as is, working if line 8 is commented out

Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot CD installer
2. append "ks=http://path/to/disk-f18.cfg" to kernel command line

Actual results:
3. be told that anaconda can't find vim

Expected results:
successful install... see below

Additional info:

4. comment out line 8 of the disk-f18.cfg (begins with "url --url")
5. append "ks=http://path/to/disk-f18.cfg" to kernel command line
6. success!
7. PXE boot system with modified file
8. installer can't find LiveOS file
9. File bug report

Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2013-02-18 10:49:55 UTC
Please attach /tmp/anaconda.log and /tmp/packaging.log from when you hit this problem to this bug report as individual attachments.  Thanks.

Comment 2 Nahum Shalman 2013-02-18 13:46:02 UTC
Created attachment 698894 [details]
anaconda.log as requested

Comment 3 Nahum Shalman 2013-02-18 13:46:37 UTC
Created attachment 698895 [details]
packaging.log as requested

Comment 4 Nahum Shalman 2013-02-18 14:06:27 UTC
Just a note that since I have a workaround, I don't really have time to continue debugging this on my end.

I filed the bug report because if I'm hitting it, someone else probably is too.

If no one can reproduce the issue, I'm happy to help figure out how to make it reproducible. Otherwise, having provided a simple way to reproduce the bug, I consider this bug report complete from my end.

A note to anyone suffering from this issue and finding this bug still unsolved:

If you used to PXE boot just the files in the images/pxeboot directory on fedora 17,16,15,14,13, etc.. and provided a kickstart file that contains either "url" or "nfs" to point the initial system at a tree to find the next stage of the installer, and now find it broken, it's quite possibly this bug.

The good news is that those kickstart files should otherwise still work if you remove that url or nfs line from the kickstart file and boot the installer from the CD image.

The bad news is that so far that's the only workaround I've found.
Good luck!

Comment 5 Chris Lumens 2013-03-04 14:54:40 UTC
What happens if you remove your first repo line, which is also pointing at a source of the distributon instead?  It's a little weird to have both that and the repo line at the same time.


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