Textmode kickstart SystemError - pvcreate failed for....

[Ajitabh Pandey]

Hi,

A very strange error in a once functional kickstart file.

I get a pretty long error message, last few lines being - 

SystemError: pvcreate failed for <fsset PartitionDevice instance at
0x2a99015878>

I am attaching my kickstart file. If on this kickstart I comment out the
line "text" then the installation is performed in graphical mode and it
all works fine. But strange issue is I have done the installation using
this kickstart and the only change I have been doing is in the %post
section which should not effect the installation at least.

<kickstart_file>

install
url --url http://intranet.dom.com/rhel4/
lang en_US.UTF-8
langsupport --default en_GB.UTF-8 en_GB.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
keyboard uk
mouse none
text
skipx
zerombr yes
network --device eth0 --bootproto=static --ip 192.168.1.55 --netmask 255.255.0.0 --gateway 192.168.1.254 --nameserver 172.16.200.10,192.168.1.11 --hostname host03
network --device eth1 --bootproto static --ip 192.168.1.56 --netmask 255.255.0.0 --gateway 192.168.1.254 --nameserver 172.16.200.10,192.168.1.11 --hostname host03
rootpw --iscrypted $1$F/BWzbWs$VKczrfEWOCcxSuKYN6URk.

firewall --enabled --ssh --http
selinux --permissive
authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5 --enablekrb5 --krb5realm=DOM.COM --krb5kdc=msadc01.dom.com:88,msadc02.dom.com:88 --krb5adminserver=msadc01.dom.com:749 
timezone --utc Europe/London
bootloader --location=mbr
clearpart --all --initlabel
# The following is the partition information
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=2000 --ondisk=cciss/c0d0 --asprimary
part swap --size=8000 --ondisk=cciss/c0d0 --asprimary
part swap --size=8000 --ondisk=cciss/c0d0 --asprimary
part swap --size=8000 --ondisk=cciss/c0d0
part swap --size=8000 --ondisk=cciss/c0d0
part pv.01 --size=100 --grow --ondisk=cciss/c0d0
volgroup vg_root pv.01
logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=lv_root --vgname=vg_root --size=70000
logvol /usr/local --fstype ext3 --name=lv_usr_local --vgname=vg_root --size=10000
logvol /opt --name=lv_opt --vgname=vg_root --size=10000
logvol /apps --name=lv_apps --vgname=vg_root --size=10000
logvol /var --name=lv_var --vgname=vg_root --size=10000
logvol /var/www --name=lv_www --vgname=vg_root --size=20000
logvol /home --name=lv_home --vgname=vg_root --size=20000
logvol /tmp --name=lv_tmp --vgname=vg_root --size=10000

%packages
kernel-smp

# mail-server
postfix
-sendmail
-dovecot
-sendmail-cf
-spamassassin

# smb-server
samba
samba-client
-system-config-samba

# mysql
mysql-server
mysql

# web-server
httpd
mod_authz_ldap
mod_ssl
php
php-mysql

# editors
emacs
joe
vim-minimal

# system-tools
sysstat
screen
net-snmp-utils
iptraf

# development-tools
binutils
rcs
subversion

# Post is run in a subshell and all output is captured in a log file. Because
# its piped to tee, we see same output on the screen.
%post
(
# Switch to vt 3, so we can see what's happening here
chvt 3

# Import the GPG keys using which the RHEL packages are signed
rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY

# Create a directory to hold the scripts and move into that
mkdir /root/post-install-scripts
cd /root/post-install-scripts

# Download the post-install scripts
/usr/bin/wget http://intranet_server_1.dom.com/rhel4/post-install/prod-common/scripts/post_install_1.sh
/usr/bin/wget http://intranet_server_1.dom.com/rhel4/post-install/prod-common/scripts/post_install_2.sh

# Assign execute permissions to the scripts
/bin/chmod ugo+x *.sh

# Execute the scripts
./post_install_1.sh
./post_install_2.sh

# Switch on services
/sbin/chkconfig psacct on  # Process Accounting
/sbin/chkconfig httpd on   # HTTPD server
/sbin/chkconfig mysqld on  # MySQL server

# Set up ownerships and permissions
/bin/chown -R root:root /usr/java
/bin/chown -R root:root /usr/local/scripts

# Creating the RRD databases
/usr/local/scripts/mkrrd.sh

# Erasing all the post-install scripts directory
rm -rf /root/post-install-scripts

) 2>&1 |tee /root/kickstart-post.log

# Switch back to vt 1 so that we can see the reboot screen
chvt 1
</kickstart_file>

Regards.
-- 
Ajitabh Pandey| Linux/Solaris Systems Administrator
bds - Broadcasting Dataservices Ltd
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