Saw this covered slightly back in May (https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/cobbler/2010-May/005623.html), but haven't seen any resolution in any place that I've looked.
What is happening is that if we attempt to koan --replace-self a Centos 5.5 system ( on physical hardware, not a xen or kvm instance), it hangs during reformatting of the drives. The drives are single SSDs, and are not exposed as a RAID disk or anything else. From my kickstart I do have the following that should be relevant: # Partition clearing information clearpart --all --initlabel # Clear the Master Boot Record zerombr #autopart this autopart NOTE: these 3 lines aren't all next to each other like this, but are in their relevant sections of the kickstart The first time this is run on a brand new system, the following formatting happens: .... 13:34:25 INFO : formatting swap as swap 13:34:25 INFO : formatting / as ext3 13:34:25 INFO : Format command: ['/usr/sbin/mke2fs', '/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00', '-i', '4096', '-j'] 13:34:58 INFO : formatting /boot as ext3 13:34:58 INFO : Format command: ['/usr/sbin/mke2fs', '/tmp/sda1', '-i', '4096', '-j'] 13:34:58 DEBUG : starting mpaths ... it then continues on and all is well. if we go to koan --replace-self this host. With no changes to the kickstart at all. We see the following: .... 00:12:52 DEBUG : DiskSet.skippedDisks: [] 00:12:52 DEBUG : done starting mpaths. Drivelist: ['sda'] 00:12:52 DEBUG : adding drive sda to disk list 00:12:53 INFO : formatting swap as swap 00:12:53 INFO : formatting / as ext3 00:12:53 INFO : Format command: ['/usr/sbin/mke2fs', '/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00', '-i', '4096', '-j'] Then it hangs. Watching the screen during this time produces random text that looks Greek. The whole system hangs and ctrl-alt-del doesn't work, it requires a power reset. We just started moving onto Centos 5.5, so I'm more willing to put my money into anaconda changes, or something else hit by anaconda than I am cobbler, but I figured it was worth while to ask here. Anyone else seen anything like this? Thanks, - Chris _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
