I've been trying to troubleshoot this on F18/Cobbler 2.2.3 for two days now and could use whatever input anyone might have.
I'm using a modified version of the sample.ks kickstart which works great on F17 and, by copying it and changing the repo stanzas is otherwise unchagned for F18. I get the above error when booting.
Switch to Ctrl-Alt-F2 and in that console I can confirm that the file isn't there. I try the commands in the %pre section that are supposed to create it and discover that "ifconfig" isn't in my path. It doesn't seem to exist anywhere in the execution environment my system is sitting in at that point (or in that console, anyway).
I know the MAC is correct -- is this really a problem in that F18 just doesn't have ifconfig available, or is something else amiss?
Thanks!
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On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Bret Wortman <bret.wortman@damascusgrp.com
wrote:
I've been trying to troubleshoot this on F18/Cobbler 2.2.3 for two days now and could use whatever input anyone might have.
I'm using a modified version of the sample.ks kickstart which works great on F17 and, by copying it and changing the repo stanzas is otherwise unchagned for F18. I get the above error when booting.
Switch to Ctrl-Alt-F2 and in that console I can confirm that the file isn't there. I try the commands in the %pre section that are supposed to create it and discover that "ifconfig" isn't in my path. It doesn't seem to exist anywhere in the execution environment my system is sitting in at that point (or in that console, anyway).
I know the MAC is correct -- is this really a problem in that F18 just doesn't have ifconfig available, or is something else amiss?
Thanks!
Yes, that is the issue - ifconfig has been removed and ip is the only command available. A few months ago I patched the snippets to detect which command was available, so you'll probably want to grab those from upstream.
That got me past that error. Thanks, Jim!
I'm getting something new, though:
After all the "Creating..." messages about new partitions, I get this:
Starting package installation process Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/threads.py", line 91, in run threading.Thread.run(self, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 504, in run self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/install.py", line 124, in doInstall payload.preInstall(packages=packages, groups=payload.languageGroups(ksdata.lang.lang)) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/packaging/yumpayload.py", line 1320, in preInstall sys.exit(1) SystemExit: 1
What could this be?
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On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:37 PM, James Cammarata jimi@sngx.net wrote:
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Bret Wortman < bret.wortman@damascusgrp.com> wrote:
I've been trying to troubleshoot this on F18/Cobbler 2.2.3 for two days now and could use whatever input anyone might have.
I'm using a modified version of the sample.ks kickstart which works great on F17 and, by copying it and changing the repo stanzas is otherwise unchagned for F18. I get the above error when booting.
Switch to Ctrl-Alt-F2 and in that console I can confirm that the file isn't there. I try the commands in the %pre section that are supposed to create it and discover that "ifconfig" isn't in my path. It doesn't seem to exist anywhere in the execution environment my system is sitting in at that point (or in that console, anyway).
I know the MAC is correct -- is this really a problem in that F18 just doesn't have ifconfig available, or is something else amiss?
Thanks!
Yes, that is the issue - ifconfig has been removed and ip is the only command available. A few months ago I patched the snippets to detect which command was available, so you'll probably want to grab those from upstream.
cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
Looks like it's a dependency error that's getting swallowed by the error handler. It's definitely getting logged anywhere at this stage -- how can I patch this code to spit out the error and determine what the dependency problem is?
* * *Bret Wortman* http://damascusgrp.com/ http://damascusgrp.com/ http://bretwortman.com/ http://twitter.com/BretWortman
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Bret Wortman bret.wortman@damascusgrp.comwrote:
That got me past that error. Thanks, Jim!
I'm getting something new, though:
After all the "Creating..." messages about new partitions, I get this:
Starting package installation process Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/threads.py", line 91, in run threading.Thread.run(self, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 504, in run self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/install.py", line 124, in doInstall payload.preInstall(packages=packages, groups=payload.languageGroups(ksdata.lang.lang)) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyanaconda/packaging/yumpayload.py", line 1320, in preInstall sys.exit(1) SystemExit: 1
What could this be?
*Bret Wortman* http://damascusgrp.com/ http://damascusgrp.com/ http://bretwortman.com/ http://twitter.com/BretWortman
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:37 PM, James Cammarata jimi@sngx.net wrote:
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Bret Wortman < bret.wortman@damascusgrp.com> wrote:
I've been trying to troubleshoot this on F18/Cobbler 2.2.3 for two days now and could use whatever input anyone might have.
I'm using a modified version of the sample.ks kickstart which works great on F17 and, by copying it and changing the repo stanzas is otherwise unchagned for F18. I get the above error when booting.
Switch to Ctrl-Alt-F2 and in that console I can confirm that the file isn't there. I try the commands in the %pre section that are supposed to create it and discover that "ifconfig" isn't in my path. It doesn't seem to exist anywhere in the execution environment my system is sitting in at that point (or in that console, anyway).
I know the MAC is correct -- is this really a problem in that F18 just doesn't have ifconfig available, or is something else amiss?
Thanks!
Yes, that is the issue - ifconfig has been removed and ip is the only command available. A few months ago I patched the snippets to detect which command was available, so you'll probably want to grab those from upstream.
cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Bret Wortman bret.wortman@damascusgrp.comwrote:
Looks like it's a dependency error that's getting swallowed by the error handler. It's definitely getting logged anywhere at this stage -- how can I patch this code to spit out the error and determine what the dependency problem is?
That's anaconda, not cobbler, so you'll have to ask that on the kickstart list unfortunately.
At this point, I'm not a fan of F18. Just sayin'.
* * *Bret Wortman* http://damascusgrp.com/ http://damascusgrp.com/ http://bretwortman.com/ http://twitter.com/BretWortman
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:32 PM, James Cammarata jimi@sngx.net wrote:
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Bret Wortman < bret.wortman@damascusgrp.com> wrote:
Looks like it's a dependency error that's getting swallowed by the error handler. It's definitely getting logged anywhere at this stage -- how can I patch this code to spit out the error and determine what the dependency problem is?
That's anaconda, not cobbler, so you'll have to ask that on the kickstart list unfortunately.
cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
On 15/03/13 10:19, Bret Wortman wrote:
At this point, I'm not a fan of F18. Just sayin'.
Do you only have packages from the F18 distro/repo in your kickstart or are you expecting them to come from somewhere else?
what's the list of packages you're trying to install?
I'm wondering if you actually have package group metadata in your installation tree - anaconda appears to be looking for groups when it blows up.
Stuart
I ended up solving this by commenting out everything and then adding bits in slowly until the build broke. I'm back running again, but boy, F18 sure seems to break the old saw about even numbered Fedora releases being the stable ones.... And yet, we'll roll forward with it all the same. ;-)
* * *Bret Wortman* http://damascusgrp.com/ http://damascusgrp.com/ http://bretwortman.com/ http://twitter.com/BretWortman
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Stuart Sears stuart@sjsears.com wrote:
On 15/03/13 10:19, Bret Wortman wrote:
At this point, I'm not a fan of F18. Just sayin'.
Do you only have packages from the F18 distro/repo in your kickstart or are you expecting them to come from somewhere else?
what's the list of packages you're trying to install?
I'm wondering if you actually have package group metadata in your installation tree - anaconda appears to be looking for groups when it blows up.
Stuart
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On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Bret Wortman bret.wortman@damascusgrp.com wrote:
I ended up solving this by commenting out everything and then adding bits in slowly until the build broke. I'm back running again, but boy, F18 sure seems to break the old saw about even numbered Fedora releases being the stable ones.... And yet, we'll roll forward with it all the same. ;-)
Bret Wortman
So what broke? was it all those new package groupings?
Yes. Basically, my copied repo doesn't recognize a single group name. Yay. — Bret Wortman
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Ed - 0x1b, Inc. cobblerlist@0x1b.com wrote:
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Bret Wortman bret.wortman@damascusgrp.com wrote:
I ended up solving this by commenting out everything and then adding bits in slowly until the build broke. I'm back running again, but boy, F18 sure seems to break the old saw about even numbered Fedora releases being the stable ones.... And yet, we'll roll forward with it all the same. ;-)
Bret Wortman
So what broke? was it all those new package groupings? _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
On 14.03.2013 [13:31:05 -0400], Bret Wortman wrote:
I've been trying to troubleshoot this on F18/Cobbler 2.2.3 for two days now and could use whatever input anyone might have.
I'm using a modified version of the sample.ks kickstart which works great on F17 and, by copying it and changing the repo stanzas is otherwise unchagned for F18. I get the above error when booting.
Switch to Ctrl-Alt-F2 and in that console I can confirm that the file isn't there. I try the commands in the %pre section that are supposed to create it and discover that "ifconfig" isn't in my path. It doesn't seem to exist anywhere in the execution environment my system is sitting in at that point (or in that console, anyway).
I know the MAC is correct -- is this really a problem in that F18 just doesn't have ifconfig available, or is something else amiss?
I think we changed this "upstream" by using ip. Yes, the FC18 installer does not have ifconfig present, it's a pretty great change, right?
-Nish
cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org