Hello, I never heard of these and I can confirm we haven't changed much around this in the last release, as you can see our kickstart simply use default network configuration, thus NetworkManager. I think you need to reach out to CentOS groups or better test on RHEL and create Bugzilla for NetworkManager.
Doublecheck your DHCP, in case of slow DHCP responses things can go bad. On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 9:44 PM, Vadim Bulst <vadim.bu...@uni-leipzig.de> wrote: > Hi there, > > after using Foreman successful on our clusters for more than a year. I'd > like to reinstall a 90 node cluster with Centos 7.4. It's now running on > Centos 7.3 . I'm not able to just update to 7.4 because of zfsonlinux > dependencies and well - some nodes died and had to bare metal install them. > > So I was able to install these nodes successfully by pxe-booting and using a > regular CentOS mirror. After the final reboot the nodes g ot no network > connection at all and puppet wasn't able to pull of course. After logging in > locally and restart NetworkManager the connection came up - sometimes on the > first try sometimes on the second try. I never discovered such behavior with > Centos 7.3 or 7.2. > > Network properties: > > DHCP, MTU 9000 > > DHCP-Server not Foreman managed, on different network > > TFTP-Server Foreman managed, on different network > > > I've read one thread on stackexchange which describes a simular problem > using a kickstart installation and dhcp network configuration on Centos 7.4 > > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/396096/centos-7-network-service-failed-to-start-because-systemd-starts-the-daemon-too > > > Does any body of you discovered similar problems? > > This is what my provisioning template / kickstart template looks like: > > > > install > url --url http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7.4.1708/os/x86_64 > --proxy=http://proxy.uni-leipzig.de:3128 > lang en_US.UTF-8 > selinux --enforcing > keyboard de > skipx > > network --bootproto dhcp --hostname galaxy110.sc.uni-leipzig.de > --device=somemacaddress > rootpw --iscrypted foo > firewall --service=ssh > authconfig --useshadow --passalgo=SHA256 --kickstart > timezone --utc Europe/Berlin > services --disabled > gpm,sendmail,cups,pcmcia,isdn,rawdevices,hpoj,bluetooth,openibd,avahi-daemon,avahi-dnsconfd,hidd,hplip,pcscd > > > > > bootloader --location=mbr --append="nofb quiet splash=quiet" > > > zerombr > clearpart --initlabel --all > ignoredisk --only-use=sda > part biosboot --size 1 --fstype=biosboot --asprimary > part / --fstype=xfs --size=20480 --asprimary --ondisk=sda > part swap --size=131072 --ondisk=sda > part /var/log --fstype=xfs --size=10240 --ondisk=sda > part /home --fstype=xfs --size=10240 --grow --ondisk=sda > > > > > text > reboot > > %packages > yum > dhclient > ntp > wget > @Core > redhat-lsb-core > %end > > %post --nochroot > exec < /dev/tty3 > /dev/tty3 > #changing to VT 3 so that we can see whats going on.... > /usr/bin/chvt 3 > ( > cp -va /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/sysimage/etc/resolv.conf > /usr/bin/chvt 1 > ) 2>&1 | tee /mnt/sysimage/root/install.postnochroot.log > %end > %post > logger "Starting anaconda galaxy110.sc.uni-leipzig.de postinstall" > exec < /dev/tty3 > /dev/tty3 > #changing to VT 3 so that we can see whats going on.... > /usr/bin/chvt 3 > ( > > > > > #update local time > echo "updating system time" > /usr/sbin/ntpdate -sub 139.18.1.2 > /usr/sbin/hwclock --systohc > > # Yum proxy > echo 'proxy = http://proxy.uni-leipzig.de:3128' >> /etc/yum.conf > > rpm -Uvh --httpproxy proxy.uni-leipzig.de --httpport 3128 > https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm > > > # update all the base packages from the updates repository > if [ -f /usr/bin/dnf ]; then > dnf -y update > else > yum -t -y update > fi > > > # SSH keys setup snippet for Remote Execution plugin > # > # Parameters: > # > # remote_execution_ssh_keys: public keys to be put in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys > # > # remote_execution_ssh_user: user for which remote_execution_ssh_keys will > be > # authorized > # > # remote_execution_create_user: create user if it not already existing > # > # remote_execution_effective_user_method: method to switch from ssh user to > # effective user > # > # This template sets up SSH keys in any host so that as long as your public > # SSH key is in remote_execution_ssh_keys, you can SSH into a host. This > only > # works in combination with Remote Execution plugin. > > # The Remote Execution plugin queries smart proxies to build the > # remote_execution_ssh_keys array which is then made available to this > template > # via the host's parameters. There is currently no way of supplying this > # parameter manually. > # See http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/16107 for details. > > > > > > > rpm -Uvh --httpproxy proxy.uni-leipzig.de --httpport 3128 > https://yum.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-pc1-el-7.noarch.rpm > > > > > if [ -f /usr/bin/dnf ]; then > dnf -y install puppet-agent > else > yum -t -y install puppet-agent > fi > > cat > /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/puppet.conf << EOF > > > [main] > vardir = /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/cache > logdir = /var/log/puppetlabs/puppet > rundir = /var/run/puppetlabs > ssldir = /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/ssl > > [agent] > pluginsync = true > report = true > ignoreschedules = true > ca_server = urzlxdeploy.rz.uni-leipzig.de > certname = galaxy110.sc.uni-leipzig.de > environment = production > server = urzlxdeploy.rz.uni-leipzig.de > > EOF > > puppet_unit=puppet > /usr/bin/systemctl list-unit-files | grep -q puppetagent && > puppet_unit=puppetagent > /usr/bin/systemctl enable ${puppet_unit} > /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 puppet on > > # export a custom fact called 'is_installer' to allow detection of the > installer environment in Puppet modules > export FACTER_is_installer=true > # passing a non-existent tag like "no_such_tag" to the puppet agent only > initializes the node > /opt/puppetlabs/bin/puppet agent --config /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/puppet.conf > --onetime --tags no_such_tag --server urzlxdeploy.rz.uni-leipzig.de > --no-daemonize > > > > > > > sync > > # Inform the build system that we are done. > echo "Informing Foreman that we are built" > wget -q -O /dev/null --no-check-certificate > http://urzlxdeploy.rz.uni-leipzig.de/unattended/built > ) 2>&1 | tee /root/install.post.log > exit 0 > > %end > > Thanks in advance for your suggestions. > > Cheers, > > Vadim > > > -- > Vadim Bulst > > Universität Leipzig / URZ > 04109 Leipzig, Augustusplatz 10 > > phone: +49-341-97-33380 > mail: vadim.bu...@uni-leipzig.de > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Foreman users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to foreman-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to foreman-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/foreman-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Later, Lukas @lzap Zapletal -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Foreman users" group. 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