Kickstart hangs on at the end of postinstall

[Masahiro Matsuya]

In trying logging with %post --log=, it's useful to add 'set -x' in the
head of the script part. It's worth to check /mnt/sysimage/root/install.log
since it may include the scriptlet error in spec.

Masahiro Matsuya

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 10:27 PM, Andrew Simpson <simpsonar77 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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>>
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