[Spacewalk-list] /home missing after kickstart

[Paul Robert Marino]

No but I think I can guess what's going on it sounds like the base image
anaconda copies to the disk imediatly follow the formatting is corrupt you
need to get the boot images off of the cds and reload them
On Nov 28, 2012 3:14 PM, "Giovanni Torres" <giovtorres at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I started running into an issue where /home is missing after a kickstart.
>  If I remove everything from the post section, it is still missing.  So,
> that doesn't seem to be the culprit.  If I do a blank kickstart, i.e. no
> activation keys, no groups, no config channels, etc., the /home directory
> is there.  It seems something happens when I try to automatically add an
> activation key with additional options.
>
> The filesystem rpm is installed.  I checked the logs in /root after the
> kickstart and I don't see anything in there that might give an indication
> why this is happening.  All I see is "useradd: cannot create directory
> /home/<user>" and "mkdir: cannot create directory '/home/dir': No such file
> or directory.
>
> I could add an if statement to the beginning of the post section to create
> the home directory if it does not already exist, but I feel I shouldn't
> have to and I'd prefer to find out why this is happening.
>
> This happens on both my EL 5 and 6 kickstarts.  (I am running Spacewalk
> 1.7.)
>
> Anyone run into this before?
>
> Thanks,
> Giovanni
>
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