Thanks for the suggestion. "dsu -n" actually applies the updates when run
in a regular environment, outside of the Kickstart file.

Cheers,
-- 
Kilian

On May 20, 2017 5:57 PM, "Patrick Boutilier" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 05/20/2017 09:45 PM, Kilian Cavalotti wrote:
>
>> HI,
>>
>> I'm trying to run an unattended upgrade of firmware as part of my
>> servers deployment process and I have all the difficulties in the work
>> to make that work.
>>
>> One of puzzling issues is that in the deployment environment (regular
>> Kickstarted Anaconda, deploying CentOS servers), "dsu -n" somehow
>> manages to think it's called in "preview" mode. The extremely
>> frustrating outcome is that it lists the updates to apply, but just
>> skips them.
>>
>> Here's the log:
>>
>> [63253]: + /sbin/dsu -n
>> [63253]: Dell System Update 1.4.2
>> [63253]: Copyright (C) 2014 Dell Proprietary.
>> [63253]: Verifying catalog installation ...
>> [63253]: Installing catalog from repository ...
>> [63253]: Fetching dsucatalog ...
>> [63253]: Reading the catalog ...
>> [63253]: Determining Applicable Updates ...
>> [63253]: --------- Update Preview ---------
>> [63253]: # : Component : Version : Filename
>> [63253]: ----------------------------------
>> [63253]: 1 : OS COLLECTOR 2.1, A00 : OSC_1.1 :
>> Diagnostics_Application_5D53Y_LN64_OSC_1.1_A00
>> [63253]: 2 :  iDRAC : 2.41.40.40 :
>> iDRAC-with-Lifecycle-Controller_Firmware_4950Y_LN_2.41.40.40_A00
>> [63253]: 3 : Intel(R) Ethernet 10G X520 LOM : 17.5.10 :
>> Network_Firmware_V6TPJ_LN64_17.5.10_A00
>> [63253]: NOTE: The preview option displays the components which can be
>> updated based on Catalog. This option does not update.
>> [63253]: Run --inventory for checking the component status post DSU
>> commit.
>> [63253]: Exiting DSU!
>>
>> It's called as "/sbin/dsu -n" in the %post section of my kickstart
>> file, and yet runs as it had been called as "dsu -p"
>>
>> Does anybody has any clue why this is happening? Could Dell please
>> provide a fix?
>>
>
> Maybe you need a "-u" as well to tell dsu to do the update? I don't have
> any boxes that need any firmware updates so I can't test.
>
>
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>
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