Kickstart hangs at dracut-initqueue (CentOS 7.2)

therbur fxb7-ox9n at dea.spamcon.org
Sat Apr 16 07:40:49 UTC 2016


Masahiro Matsuya <mmatsuya at redhat.com> wrote:

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

Thanks - reviewing that voluminous output gave me the clue that maybe my
kickstart was bad, since it didn't seem to know where the repo was - after
fixing my Cobbler snippets so the kickstart is good, it works fine.

>
>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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