[rhelv6-beta-list] network errors during kickstart

[thomas at redhat.com]

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On 07/07/2010 03:10 AM, Kurt Keller wrote:
> Since beta 2 we encounter one error on every kickstart install. This
> prevents us from performing the fully automated installs we require, as
> somebody has to manually select 'retry'.
> Has anybody else these errors?
> Is there any switch which could be used to automatically retry instead
> of waiting for an admin to select 'retry'?
> 
> What happens is:
> - we PXE boot
> - kickstart and channels are accessed via http
> - while in the stage "Starting installation process", there will always
> be exactly one rpm package (not always the same) with the following
> error: "The file xxxx.rpm cannot be opened. This is due to a missing
> file, a corrupt package or corrupt media..."
> - selecting retry works fine and the installation continues
> - 30 seconds before this error occurs, we see in the webserver logs,
> that last request for partial of this file (status code 206)
> - at the time this occurrs we see syslog messages from the machine being
> installed saying it timed out on the file
> 
> We don't think this is a problem with the webserver, network or the
> like, as it happens always with RHEL6b2 and never with RHEL4/5 F13,
> using the same installation infrastructure and even running at the same
> time.

Is it this?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525071

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