Kickstart hangs on at the end of postinstall

Fri Sep 30 13:28:24 UTC 2016

Jacquet

>From the limited info supplied - sounds like an rpm install is 
failing/hanging when being executed during kickstart process 
You have tried running this outside of kickstart and are you satisfied 
that in isolation this rpm install works

These are some questions that i might ask myself in your situation ... 
hope it helps

Have you tried using yum instead of rpm
http://www.databook.bz/?page_id=201

Have other kickstart rpm installs worked or is this the one and only rpm / 
rpm failure

Have you confirmed that the repo is accessible on first boot - Could you 
have it local install by downloading it prior to build

Is it being run at the correct point ie is this running before its 
prerequisites are up and running

Does this rpm require both x86 and x64 versions to be installed together

Does this rpm require addition rpms - see yum

Does this rpm require addition rpms that need to be downgraded before it 
can be installed

Have you got any more logging - can you execute via a script with logging

Regards,

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From:   Jacquet Romain <romain.jacquet at telespazio.com>
To:     Discussion list about Kickstart <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
Date:   30/09/16 13:47
Subject:        RE: Kickstart hangs on at the end of postinstall
Sent by:        <kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com>

Hi Andrew,
    Thank you very much for answer. Yes, I?m logging the post-install with 
?%post --logfile /var/log/ks-post.log?. When the installer is stuck I can 
see the ouput in /mnt/sysimage/var/log/ks-post.log. The extract looks 
like:
    [?] // very long stuff
     rpm ?Uv my-daemon-ftp.rpm // faulty RPM
     [?] // very long stuff again
    End of postinstallation // echo at the end the installation 

  So the daemon installation does not stop the post-installation. Another 
workaround is to stop the daemon just after the update in the kickstart 
file. So it is like anaconda cannot restart with the daemon running. Do 
you have another idea? Is it possible to have a more detailed log of 
anaconda?

  Best regards.

De : Andrew Simpson [mailto:simpsonar77 at gmail.com] 
Envoyé : jeudi 29 septembre 2016 15:27
À : Discussion list about Kickstart
Objet : Re: Kickstart hangs on at the end of postinstall

are you logging the post section that you're installing it in?  Assuming 
you're seeing the logs/output and this is the last message, it's probably 
not hanging on that RPM.  It's probably hanging on the next command in the 
post section, which hasn't been printed out yet.  comment out the RPM 
install  portion and see what's hanging.  If it is indeed hanging on the 
rpm, then there's probably an issue with one of the scriptlets in the rpm 
spec file.  The were likely be a log of that somewhere under /tmp or 
/var/log/anaconda/

Andrew Simpson

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 5:03 AM, Jacquet Romain <
romain.jacquet at telespazio.com> wrote:
Hello everybody,
    I?m struggling to find a bug caused by a RPM update in the postinstall 
section. The line looks like: ?rpm ?Uvh my-daemon-package? and update a 
daemon. I?m using a CentOS 6.6 and its anaconda 13.21.229.
With this line in the kickstart, anaconda never ends. The only way to stop 
anaconda is to use the shell in the virtual terminal (Alt+Ctrl+F2) and 
kill the daemon. It is like anaconda is waiting for something to be 
released. Do you know what could prevent anaconda from rebooting?

   Best regards.

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