CentOS 7.6 Kickstart Error
I am testing a CentOS 7.6 kickstart installation. After kickstart was initiated, the installation stops at some point where a sort of table is printed under
“Installation”, and the item that fails is 4 – Software selection, Error checking software selection.
I have checked /tmp/packaging.log and /tmp/anaconda.log, but cannot find any errors here that would prevent installation.
Poor error messages, no usable lead for debug.
2 thoughts on - CentOS 7.6 Kickstart Error
At least for debugging, try adding “inst.graphical” to the “append initrd=” line in your isolinux.cfg on the .iso image (grub.cfg and the “linuxefi” line if you are booting UEFI). Remove “inst.cmdline” and “inst.text”, as well as any entries of ” inst.noninteractive”, ” inst.noshell” and ” inst.headless” from the same “append” line, as they will make troubleshooting more difficult/impossible. Hi,
I have run into this – in my experience it means there is some dependency missing. And you are correct trying to find the error is a PITA.
Steve
Steve Clark writes:
I figured out a different way, less involved than the one proposed by Gregory.
The package selection in the kickstart file essentially consists of a custom group to keep it short. So I took a 7.5 machine and then ran a group update off the 7.6 custom repo. The packages that make the update fail are new in 7.6, and the 7.6 kickstart started working once I removed them from the repo. They were the grub2-ppc* packages.