Trouble mounting NFS shares in %post script of a kickstart FC6 install

[Peter Schwenk]

On Mar 23, 2007, at 5:41 PM, Charles Curley wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 01:55:52PM -0400, Peter Schwenk wrote:
>>
>>    Just in case anyone is wondering...
>>
>>    It turns out that somewhere along the way during a kickstart  
>> install for
>>    FC6, the portmap program is killed, so by the time the install  
>> gets to the
>>    %post script, NFS mounts can't happen.  I found this out by  
>> looking at the
>>    F4 terminal messages that indicated that the mount operation  
>> was trying to
>>    contact the portmapper on localhost.
>
> Thank you.
>
> I think that's a bug. If you haven't already done so, would you please
> bugzilla it? I do exactly as you do, and nfs mount a directory with
> scripts, files and other goodies for %post processing.

Yep.  That seems like a bug anyway.  I'll bugzilla it.

> Also, does shutting off portmapper affect an NFS mounted installation?
> I recall doing several installations of FC6 and not having any
> problems with it (but no %post processing on those).

NFS mounted installations work fine, but somehow portmap is gone by  
the time %post runs.  That was throwing me off the trail.

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