Have seen this before when re-provisioning 5.4 as 5.5 yes: Is this the same thing?
http://twitpic.com/1p457v On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 2:43 AM, Chris Munns <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
