[Spacewalk-list] kickstart problem

[Jon Miller]

How stuck is it really? What is the client OS you are installing and what is
your version of Spacewalk?

Depending on how stuck you are, I tend to jump over to VT 2 where there is a
shell, figure out what is really running by looking for the child process of
the %post script via "ps -ef --forest | less" and then run a few lsof &
strace commands on the "hung" process to see what is happening.

-- Jon Miller

klarmstrong2 at liberty.edu writes:

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> I have a kickstart file that works pretty good until it hits this one line:
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> cp -f /tmp/ks-pre.log* /mnt/sysimage/root/
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> My kickstart installation gets stuck in the ‘running post install scripts’ section, with this on
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> ERROR : cp: cannot stat ‘/tmp/ks-pre.log*’ : No such file or directory
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> The thing is, this file doesn’t exist during the installation.  So to try and get around this, I
> turned off logging for the %pre section in my satellite server, and it still has this line in the
> kickstart file.  Come to find out, that check mark box within Satellite only covers custom %pre
> sections, not the ones generate from a Kickstart profile.
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> Any thoughts on how I can correct this?
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> Thanks.
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-- 
Jon Miller