Dear all,
I have been struggling with my first PXEboot today, using a
kickstart with packages served over http on the local network.
The details:
- Anaconda is using 100% CPU
- CentOS 5.5 i386 downloaded yesterday
- .iso md5sums checked out good
- 0 network errors showing (ifconfig)
- console 1 displays: "Installing httpd-..." Done [508/782]"
- It appears to be trying to install samba for the last hour:
the last 2 lines of the Apache access_log on the package
server:
"GET /centos/5.5/os/i386/disc2//CentOS/
httpd-2.2.3-43.el5.centos.i386.rpm HTTP/1.1" 200 1277591
"GET /centos/5.5/os/i386/disc2//CentOS/
samba-3.0.33-3.28.el5.i386.rpm HTTP/1.1" 200 17016117
- The last line of /tmp/anaconda.log shows:
DEBUG : Adding Package opensp-1.5.2-4.i386 in mode u
- The last line of /mnt/sysimage/root/install.log.syslog shows:
useradd[2304]: new user: name=apache, ...
- I have searched for similar issues at bugs.centos.org without success
- The system is still alive, console 2 is responsive
so I can (hopefully) debug this if someone will point
me in the right direction
- kickstart file: http://pastebin.com/mQxx42wf
Help!
--
Charles Polisher
> I have been struggling with my first PXEboot today, using a > kickstart with packages served over http on the local network. > > The details: > > - Anaconda is using 100% CPU<snip> I got the PXE/kickstart going by sheer persistence. It eventually completed without hanging. Post-install the box hung several times, generally with a kernel panic, sometimes with only the flashing keyboard lights as a "tell". In an attempt to diagnose a hardware issue I've run: - memtest86 6.5+ hours, 0 errors, 0 hangs. Both motherboard & cpu have ECC enabled. - bonnie++ 1+ hours, 0 errors, 0 hangs. - sys_basher is running now, it tests the floating point unit, the integer unit, RAM, and disk. I'd hate to let this server loose in production as-is. Does anyone have suggestions for other things I can test? -- Charles Polisher