[Bug 70721] Re: DHCP Negotiation Timeout
Colin Thank you for the pointer. I have played around with the settings and found that this works in order to automate as much as possible: append initrd=ubuntu/x86-ui/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=20480 root=/dev/rd/0 devfs=mount,dall rw debconf/priority=critical languagechooser/language- name=English netcfg/choose_interface=eth0 netcfg/dhcp_timeout=60 preseed/url=http://xxx/x.cfg -- Many thanks, this issue is now closed. kind regards - William -- DHCP Negotiation Timeout https://launchpad.net/bugs/70721 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 73647] Re: bnx2 module not in netboot initrd image for network installs
I have also checked the linux-source-2.6.15_2.6.15-23.39_all.deb package and the bnx2.c and bnx2.h c files are there in the source. Hence, all that is required is a configuration file for the netboot kernel. -- Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 not detected on install https://launchpad.net/bugs/73647 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 73647] Re: bnx2 module not in netboot initrd image for network installs
Obviously, this is related to the latest dapper netboot image which I could find: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/ kind regards - William -- Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 not detected on install https://launchpad.net/bugs/73647 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 73647] Re: bnx2 module not in netboot initrd image for network installs
Hi Kyle We want to install Ubuntu over the network onto the IBM x3550 which requires the bnx2 drivers. These drivers are not available in the 6.06 LTS netboot image. Hence, I am looking for a way of including the bnx2 kernel module in the netboot initrd.gz. I would expect that this module would either: - be built already and available through some other package which I have not yet found or - possible to build using the 2.6.15 kernel source using a specific kernel configuration file which I also have not yet found. I would dearly appreciate any direction on this matter. -- Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 not detected on install https://launchpad.net/bugs/73647 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 70899] %post scripting section - issues running apt-get install
Public bug reported: Hi We have noticed that only packages from the main and restricted repositories can be used in the kickseed configuration file. There are some packages which we'd like to install from the universe repository. We have tried to perform this installation under the %post section as follows: === %post # setup package list INSTALL='scsiadd afio ccmalloc dump fileutils flip ksymoops mingetty modconf ncompress nscd quotatool scsitools sendmail-bin sysstat tcpslice tmpreaper xfree86-common libcgi-perl libnetaddr-ip-perl' # edit sources.list cat EOF /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/ubuntu dapper main restricted universe deb http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/ubuntu dapper-updates main restricted universe deb http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted universe EOF # customise installed packaging apt-get update /root/update.output sleep 1 # ensure that proc is mounted as may be needed mount -t proc none /proc # added in an attempt to resolve locale errors which occur on pkg installation locale-gen en_GB dpkg-reconfigure locales sleep 2 for PKG in $INSTALL; do apt-get -yf install $PKG /root/$PKG.output sleep 1 done apt-get -yf install === The output which we see from the installation attempt is something like this: === Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Recommended packages: tk8.4 wish The following NEW packages will be installed: scsitools 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 48 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 116kB of archives. After unpacking 451kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://192.168.10.1 dapper/universe scsitools 0.8-2 [116kB] perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = C.UTF-8 are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (C). locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Newt debconf: (Can't locate Debconf/FrontEnd/Newt.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/per l /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.7 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.7 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/shar e/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at (ev al 20) line 2, line 1.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Noninteractive Preconfiguring packages ... /usr/share/debconf/confmodule: line 42: 3: Bad file descriptor === As you can see there are a number of locale errors which we attempted to fix by running dpkg-reconfigure locales prior to installing extra packages. And some packages (eg. scsitools, sysstat) stop during installation where they're trying to run a config script eg. /tmp/scsitools.config.227851 for scsitools: === #!/bin/sh -e # Source debconf library. . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule [ $2 ] || db_input low scsitools/info || true db_go === This hangs the entire post-install kickseed script even though the package can be installed with 'apt-get -y install ' with no user interaction. We'd really appreciate any help you can give with regard to this if it is not in fact a bug. Kind regards - William Oakley ** Affects: kickseed (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- %post scripting section - issues running apt-get install https://launchpad.net/bugs/70899 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 70721] DHCP Negotiation Timeout
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: netcfg Hi We are testing the Ubuntu Installer as a method for deploying Ubuntu in our European Datacentres. During testing we have noticed that in the majority of cases dhcp negotiation times out and it is necessary to attempt negotiation again for it to succeed. Would it be possible to extend this timeout? kind regards - William ** Affects: netcfg (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- DHCP Negotiation Timeout https://launchpad.net/bugs/70721 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 70721] Re: DHCP Negotiation Timeout
We are using the kickseed configuration file method for installation. We have tried fixing the speed and duplex of the switch port and setting it as auto. This has the same result, ie. failure on first attempt and success on second attempt of network autoconfiguration. As far as I can tell, this step occurs prior to downloading the kickseed file and hence we cannot fix the interfaces until the dhcp address has been obtained. The reason that this would be important to us is to create a fully automated installation with no interaction required. We appreciate any assistance you can give us with this issue. -- DHCP Negotiation Timeout https://launchpad.net/bugs/70721 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 70721] Re: DHCP Negotiation Timeout
The following is output from virtual terminal 4 as the Ubuntu Installer starts up and attempts to autonegotiate: Jun 11 18:51:47 net/hw-detect.hotplug: Detected hotpluggable network interface eth0 Jun 11 18:51:47 net/hw-detect.hotplug: Detected hotpluggable network interface eth1 Jun 11 18:51:47 net/hw-detect.hotplug: Detected hotpluggable network interface lo Jun 11 18:51:48 netcfg[4337]: INFO: eth0 is disconnected. (MII) Jun 11 18:51:48 netcfg[4337]: INFO: eth0 is not a wireless interface. Continuing. Jun 11 18:51:49 netcfg[4337]: INFO: eth1 is disconnected. (MII) Jun 11 18:51:49 netcfg[4337]: INFO: eth1 is not a wireless interface. Continuing. Jun 11 18:51:49 kernel: [17179585.336000] NET: Registered protocol family 17 Jun 11 18:51:49 dhclient: Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5 Jun 11 18:51:49 dhclient: Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium. Jun 11 18:51:49 dhclient: All rights reserved. Jun 11 18:51:49 dhclient: Jun 11 18:51:49 dhclient: Please contribute if you find this software useful. Jun 11 18:51:49 dhclient: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html Jun 11 18:51:49 dhclient: Jun 11 18:51:49 netcfg: Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5 Jun 11 18:51:49 netcfg: Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium. Jun 11 18:51:49 netcfg: All rights reserved. Jun 11 18:51:49 netcfg: Please contribute if you find this software useful. Jun 11 18:51:49 netcfg: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html Jun 11 18:51:50 dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth0/00:14:5e:1c:79:32 Jun 11 18:51:50 dhclient: Sending on LPF/eth0/00:14:5e:1c:79:32 Jun 11 18:51:50 dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net Jun 11 18:51:50 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5 Jun 11 18:51:50 netcfg: Listening on LPF/eth0/00:14:5e:1c:79:32 Jun 11 18:51:50 netcfg: Sending on LPF/eth0/00:14:5e:1c:79:32 Jun 11 18:51:50 netcfg: Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net Jun 11 18:51:50 netcfg: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5 Jun 11 18:51:51 kernel: [17179587.636000] tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, half duplex. Jun 11 18:51:51 kernel: [17179587.636000] tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX. Jun 11 18:51:55 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9 Jun 11 18:51:55 netcfg: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9 Jun 11 18:52:04 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 Jun 11 18:52:04 netcfg: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 Jun 11 18:52:16 dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 Jun 11 18:52:16 netcfg: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 Jun 11 18:52:17 dhclient: DHCPOFFER from 192.168.10.1 Jun 11 18:52:17 netcfg: DHCPOFFER from 192.168.10.1 Jun 11 18:52:19 dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 Jun 11 18:52:19 netcfg: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 Jun 11 18:52:19 dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.10.1 Jun 11 18:52:19 netcfg: DHCPACK from 192.168.10.1 Jun 11 18:52:19 dhclient: bound to 192.168.10.232 -- renewal in 1800 seconds. Jun 11 18:52:19 netcfg: bound to 192.168.10.232 -- renewal in 1800 seconds. This clearly shows that netcfg/dhclient obtain an address. However, on virtual terminal one, the installation stops and shows the message: Network autoconfiguration failed Your network is probably not using the DHCP protocol. Alternatively, the DHCP server may be slow or some network hardware is not working properly. ** Description changed: Binary package hint: netcfg Hi We are testing the Ubuntu Installer as a method for deploying Ubuntu in our European Datacentres. During testing we have noticed that in the majority of cases dhcp negotiation times out and it is necessary to attempt negotiation again for it to succeed. + Also, using the kickseed installer the system polls for a dhcp address + twice - once on boot up and secondly after obtaining the kickseed + configuration file. + Would it be possible to extend this timeout? kind regards - William -- DHCP Negotiation Timeout https://launchpad.net/bugs/70721 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 48311] Re: kickstart partitioning fails with --recommended or --asprimary
Colin Is the kickstart method of installing still being developed? If so, I'd be intertested in finding out what the next developments are likely to be. I look forward to talking further with you. kind regards - William -- kickstart partitioning fails with --recommended or --asprimary https://launchpad.net/bugs/48311 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 52122] Re: Need to able specify ethX interface to get KS or PRESEED file
Hi Rudolf Assuming that you are pxe booting your Ubuntu installation over the network, have you tried applying the debian installer appends to the booting ubuntu kernel? eg. My d-i install entry for pxelinux: label debian kernel d-i/2.6/linux append console=tty0 initrd=d-i/2.6/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=20480 root=/dev/rd/0 devfs=mount,dall rw DEBCONF_PRIORITY=critical preseed/url=http:///di.cfg languagechooser/language-name=English netcfg/choose_interface=eth0 -- Hence my ubuntu entry for pxelinux: label ubuntu kernel ubuntu/ks/linux append ks=http://x/ubuntu.cfg vga=normal initrd=ubuntu/ks/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=16432 root=/dev/rd/0 rw console=tty0 netcfg/choose_interface=eth2 -- I haven't tried it, but thought it might work for you kind regards - William -- Need to able specify ethX interface to get KS or PRESEED file https://launchpad.net/bugs/52122 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 48311] Re: kickstart partitioning fails with --recommended or --asprimary
Hello Matt and Colin We are assessing Ubuntu Server 6.06 LTS (32 and 64bit) for use as a low cost Linux web hosting platform in our Datacentres across Europe. Having used the Debian Installer for installing Debian for some time now, we were keen to try out the Ubuntu kickstart install as a replacement. Debian has been a popular choice for many of our customers over Redhat for a number of reasons and we feel that Ubuntu can trump that. However, like Matt, we have noted some issues with this in relation to partitioning. We have noted the following results so far: 1. When using the following config for partitioning: # disk config zerombr yes clearpart --all --initlabel bootloader --location=mbr part / --fstype=ext3 --size=8192 --asprimary part swap --size=512 --grow --maxsize=2048 --asprimary part /var --fstype=ext3 --size=6000 --grow --asprimary This produces an installed system which is partitioned as follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40016019456 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 996 8000338+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 9971058 498015 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda31059486530579727+ 5 Extended /dev/hda51059486530579696 83 Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 7.6G 485M 6.7G 7% / varrun125M 48K 125M 1% /var/run varlock 125M 0 125M 0% /var/lock udev 125M 40K 125M 1% /dev devshm125M 0 125M 0% /dev/shm lrm 125M 18M 107M 15% /lib/modules/2.6.15-27-686/volatile /dev/hda5 29G 266M 27G 1% /var [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# mount /dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) /sys on /sys type sysfs (rw) varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw) varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw) procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.15-27-686/volatile type tmpfs (rw) /dev/hda5 on /var type ext3 (rw) Hence, the system has not followed our request to partition /var as a primary partition. But it has for / and swap partitions. 2. When using the following config for partitioning: # disk config zerombr yes clearpart --all --initlabel bootloader --location=mbr part / --fstype ext3 --size 8192 part swap --size 2048 part /var --fstype ext3 --size 1 --grow This produces an installed system which is partitioned as follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 36.2 GB, 36270243840 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4409 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 14409354152615 Extended /dev/sda5 1 996 8000307 83 Linux /dev/sda6 9971245 261 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda71246440925414798+ 83 Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 7.6G 485M 6.7G 7% / varrun 1013M 48K 1013M 1% /var/run varlock 1013M 0 1013M 0% /var/lock udev 1013M 68K 1013M 1% /dev devshm 1013M 0 1013M 0% /dev/shm lrm 1013M 18M 995M 2% /lib/modules/2.6.15-27-686/volatile /dev/sda7 24G 266M 23G 2% /var As you can see the Ubuntu kickstart leans towards a preference to place all partitions on extended/logical partitions. In addition, is it possible to use the include parameter within the Ubuntu kickstart configuration file so that we can check for IDE vs SCSI disks and create an appropriate partition configuration. We have had to do this with Redhat as otherwise we were noting that the Redhat partitioner would attempt to use a second disk to span the partitioning; hence, we have been specifying the actual disk to use for partitions eg.: part / --fstype=ext3 --size=8192 --asprimary --ondisk=sda part swap --recommended --ondisk=sda part /var --fstype=ext3 --size=6000 --grow --asprimary --ondisk=sda We would definitely prefer to see better control of partitioning within this installation method before moving to Ubuntu. Have you any suggestions about how we might resolve this partitioning issue without resorting to some pre-install shell scripting? Is there another installation method which is better supported and regarded as the preferred method of install? kind regards - William Oakley -- kickstart partitioning fails with --recommended or --asprimary https://launchpad.net/bugs/48311 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing
[Bug 48918] Re: shadow passwords not enabled (no rootpw)
Our user configuration for Kickstart is as follows: # config section auth --useshadow --enablemd5 rootpw --iscrypted xx user nttuser --fullname user --iscrypted --password xx And we don't notice any problems with the creation of the shadow file. Perhaps this is now fixed? -- shadow passwords not enabled (no rootpw) https://launchpad.net/bugs/48918 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
