Kickstart hangs on at the end of postinstall

Andrew Simpson simpsonar77 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 30 13:53:37 UTC 2016


so we would unfortunately need to see the entire set of logs to find what's
stopping the install from rebooting/completing.

Andrew Simpson

On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 8:42 AM, Jacquet Romain <
romain.jacquet at telespazio.com> wrote:

> 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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