Re: 7.2 Kickstart fails...

[Corey Kovacs <ckovacs DEPAUW EDU>]

John Berninger wrote:

> > Probing for mouse type:     Generic -  3 Button Mouse (PS/2)
> > Traceback (innermost last):
> >     File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 589, in ?
> >         instClass.setInstallDate(id)
> >         .
> >         .  (some errors in kickstart.py listed)
> >         .
> > KeyError 24
>
> This looks like an error very similar to one I was dealing with a short
> time ago with http-served kickstarts.  What was happening with me was
> that somehow, my kickstart file was getting an extra line put into it
> that said simply "99f" (99f was the KeyError I was getting).
>
>         It turned out that my web server was responding to the http
> request witha  chunked 1.1 response, but the loader didn't understand
> chunked responses and so was adding garbage characters to the kickstart
> file it saved in /tmp.  I forced the server to respond with an HTTP/1.0
> response, and it worked fine.
>
>         Red Hat's got a bug about this in their bugzilla database (I
> don't remember the number right off-hand).
>
>         If you're not doing http-based kickstarts, ignore this message
> as I have no idea what's happening.  :)
>
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Hehe, well thanx anyway. I am doing ftp kickstarts, but it could be a
similar problem..  I'll follow up
on my earlier message and state this...

Corey