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  • Anaconda kickstart installation error " [Errno 14] Downloaded more than max size "

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    Problem Description:
    Anaconda fails to download the first rpm from the %package section of kickstart with following error.

    14:04:57,836 WARNING : Try 1/10 for http://svnserver.eu.novartis.net/svn/BaseOS/trunk/repo/redhat/repos/yum/Errata/nss-pam-ldapd-0.7.5-18.2.el6_4.x86_64.rpm failed: [Errno 14] Downloaded more than max size for http://svnserver.eu.novartis.net/svn/BaseOS/trunk/repo/redhat/repos/yum/Errata/nss-pam-ldapd-0.7.5-18.2.el6_4.x86_64.rpm: 29083 > 14776
    14:04:58,090 WARNING : Failed to get http://svnserver.eu.novartis.net/svn/BaseOS/trunk/repo/redhat/repos/yum/Errata/nss-pam-ldapd-0.7.5-18.2.el6_4.x86_64.rpm from mirror 1/1, or downloaded file is corrupt
    14:04:58,108 WARNING : package download failure, retrying automatically

    The corresponding http access_log is confusing while the first try had success status 200 and the Retry has status "500"

    status = 200
    "GET /svn/BaseOS/trunk/repo/redhat/repos/yum/Errata/nss-pam-ldapd-0.7.5-18.2.el6_4.x86_64.rpm HTTP/1.1" 200 155252 "-" "Red Hat Enterprise Linux (anaconda)/6.4"

    status=500
    "GET /svn/BaseOS/trunk/repo/redhat/repos/yum/Errata/nss-pam-ldapd-0.7.5-18.2.el6_4.x86_64.rpm HTTP/1.1" 500 81920 "-" "Red Hat Enterprise Linux (anaconda)/6.4"

    download with curl:
    [root@localhost server]# curl -o nss-pam-ldapd-0.7.5-14.el6_2.1.x86_64.rpm --range 1384-15404 http://svnserver.eu.novartis.net/svn/BaseOS/trunk/repo/redhat/repos/yum/Errata/nss-pam-ldapd-0.7.5-18.2.el6_4.x86_64.rpm
    % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
    Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
    100 151k 100 151k 0 0 18028 0 0:00:08 0:00:08 --:--:-- 119k
    [root@localhost server]# ls -lrt
    -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 155252 Sep 18 09:27 nss-pam-ldapd-0.7.5-14.el6_2.1.x86_64.rpm

    Attached the anaconda log file. Please help.

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