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RHEL 8 Snippet Changes cause Installation to Fail #58

Closed shall1024 closed 3 years ago

shall1024 commented 3 years ago

The new snippets are causing RHEL8 installs/provisions to fail.

I have identified the following two issues:

  1. The EPEL repo is causing issues in the install. This is unexpected, because RHEL7 also has this repo in its per_osmajor/system/RedHatEnterpriseLinux7 section and this does not cause issues.
  2. Moving the sed command that sets gpgcheck=1 for the repositories we've added to system_post causes the command to be executed too late. The restraint_rhts package is installed BEFORE system_post commands are reached.

Regarding point 2., I think the %post section needs to be put back in per_osmajor/system/RedHatEnterpriseLinux8 based on what I read here; otherwise, I don't see another way to run the sed command before system_post.

dledford commented 3 years ago

Regarding 1, is it just because of the gpgcheck, or something else about the epel repo causing problems?

Regarding 2, moving the snippet back will be fine. All it really does is create two separate %post/%end segments in the kickstart, one that is out of place. But, by being out of place, when Anaconda sanitizes the kickstart, it ends up appending the second, larger segment onto this very short out of place segment and that allows the sed command to preceed the rhts harness installs. It's kind of an abuse of the Anaconda file format, but it works, so we can go back to it. The other option would be to go into the beaker provided system_post template and put the sed command in there prior to the rhts package installs.

shall1024 commented 3 years ago

Just attempted another provision with the %post section AND the epel repo, the epel repo causes the following error before installation can even begin:


Installation      
1) [x] Language settings                 2) [x] Time settings 
       (English (United States))                (America/New_York timezone) 
3) [!] Installation source               4) [!] Software selection 
       (Error setting up software               (Error checking software 
       source)                                  selection) 
5) [x] Installation Destination          6) [x] Kdump 
       (Automatic partitioning                  (Kdump is enabled) 
       selected) 
7) [x] Network configuration             8) [ ] User creation 
       (Wired (eno5) connected)                 (No user will be created)

This causes the installation to hang at this point and never complete.

shall1024 commented 3 years ago

Currently trying a fix, will report back if it works.

The directory structure of the EPEL url is a bit different than the other repositories, so that seems to be where the issue is.

shall1024 commented 3 years ago

RHEL8 installs have been fixed. RHEL7 still needs to be tested again, but it seemed like those snippets were fine last week.

Fedora34 still seems to be having issues; need to figure this out tomorrow morning.

I will create a PR with the fixed snippets as soon as I've confirmed all distros work again.

shall1024 commented 3 years ago

PR has been created here.

Once the PR is accepted I will close the issue and restart the cron job that automatically pulls Beaker snippets.

dledford commented 3 years ago

@shall1024 Pull request merged