RHEL 7 Kickstart Fails With Curl Error
Issue
- When trying to kickstart a RHEL 7 machine over the network, it fails with console output similar to:
[ 11.539583] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 20971520 512-byte logical blocks: (10.7 GB/10.0 GiB)
[ 11.540907] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 11.541270] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 11.545375] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[ 11.701613] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 11.701654] 8021q: adding VLAN 0 to HW filter on device eth0
[ 12.260970] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[ 13.953419] dracut—initqueue[1123]: % Total % Received Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
[ 13.956475] dracut—initqueue[1123]: Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 6505 100 6505 0 0 2832 0 0:00:02 0:00:02 —-:--:—- 2833 0 --:--:-— --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
[ 17.1940621] dracut-initqueue[11231]: Warning: can’t find installer mainimage path in .treeinfo
[ 17.2617791] dracut—initqueue[1123]: % Total % Received Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
[ 17.2640420] dracut—initqueue[1123]: Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
71 410M 71 293M 0 0 226M 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 —-:--:—- 226M 0 --:--:-— --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
[ 18.564711] dracut—initqueue[1123]: curl: (23) Failed writing body (56 != 16384)
[ 19.590823] loop: module loaded
[ 18.905204] dracut—initqueue[1123]: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /deu/loop0,
[ 18.910342] dracut—initqueue[1123]: missing codepage or helper program, or other error
[ 18.910829] dracut—initqueue[1123]: In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
[ 18.911215] dracut—initqueue[1123]: dmesg | tail or so.
[ 18.929125] dracut—initqueue[1123]: umount: /run/initramfs/squashfs: not mounted
[ 18.951730] dracut—initqueue[1123]: /sbin/dmsquash-live-root: line 286: printf: write error: No space left on device
- In the above, the most relevant lines are:
dracut—initqueue[1123]: curl: (23) Failed writing body (56 != 16384)
dracut—initqueue[1123]: /sbin/dmsquash-live-root: line 286: printf: write error: No space left on device
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.3 and above.
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