Kickstart hangs at dracut-initqueue (CentOS 7.2)

[Masahiro Matsuya]

Or, sosreport.txt collected with rd.debug boot option will provide a
valuable information to know the root cause.

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 4:14 PM, Oliver Haessler <oliver at redhat.com> wrote:

> Is there a way to have a look at the kickstart file? It might be easier
> than guessing :D
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "therbur" <fxb7-ox9n at dea.spamcon.org>
> > To: Kickstart-list at redhat.com
> > Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 8:43:40 AM
> > Subject: Re: Kickstart hangs at dracut-initqueue (CentOS 7.2)
> >
> > Frantisek Krecmer <f.krecmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >Hello,
> > >
> > >I had similar problem with RHEL7 recently and it was caused by
> > >network. I
> > >configured wrong NIC during installation and it dropped to dracut
> > >shell.
> > >
> > >Regards,
> > >FK
> >
> > Thanks for the response.
> >
> > I don't think it's the NIC - I don't specify anything; there's only
> > one
> > Ethernet port connected, and with CentOS 5.7 it works fine, I think
> > kickstart defaults to whatever link it is using to PXE boot, which is
> > what
> > is needed; I don't know why this aspect would be any different
> > between the
> > distros.  At one point I did try the second of the two Ethernet ports
> > on
> > the unit being loaded, and it did not get any further.
> >
> > >
> > >On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 9:20 PM, therbur <fxb7-ox9n at dea.spamcon.org>
> > >wrote:
> > >
> > >> therbur <fxb7-ox9n at dea.spamcon.org> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> >I have a Cobbler setup that loads a CentOS 5.7 OK.  I am trying
> > >> >to add a
> > >> >CentOS 7.2 load.
> > >> >
> > >> >It stops just after the line that shows:
> > >> >
> > >> >... dracut-initqueue ...  Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
> > >> >
> > >> >Actually, it doesn't stop, it just pauses a long time, then says
> > >> >dozens of
> > >> >messages like:
> > >> >
> > >> >... warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts
> > >> >
> > >> >Then it comes to a "dracut>" prompt.  Doing "journalctl" as it
> > >> >suggests, I
> > >> >don't see anything obvious that would tell me the actual problem.
> > >> > Also
> > >> >tried "cat /proc/cmdline" and it worked, didn't see anything
> > >> >unusual.
> > >> >
> > >> >What is it looking for when it gets to the dracut-initqueue line?
> > >> > What
> > >> >are some possible causes/solutions?
> > >>
> > >> No ideas?  In case it's helpful, here's the dracut rdsosreport.txt
> > >> for the
> > >> problem:
> > >>
> > >> http://pastebin.com/uyx8p9bA
> > >>
> > >>
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