During installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux server using kickstart method, kickstart file doesn't get downloaded in first attempt.
Issue
- Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3/5.8 using kickstart installation.
- Booting with the minimal boot media and providing the
boot:parameters and the kickstart path as follows.
> initrd=initrd.img BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz ksdevice=eth0 ip=192.168.0.1 gateway=192.168.0.254 netmask=255.255.255.0 dns=192.168.0.254 ks=http://192.168.0.254/cblr/svc/op/ks/system/rhel63
- Device was initialized as
eth0, it was also activated, in first attempt to download the kickstart file, the system couldn't connect to server but in retry it downloaded the kickstart file.
$ less syslog
19:19:14,998 WARNING NetworkManager: <warn> bluez error getting default adapter: The name org.bluez was not provided by any .service files
19:19:15,976 WARNING NetworkManager: <warn> error requesting auth for org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.enable-disable-network: (26) Remote Exception invoking org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority.CheckAuthorization() on /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/Authority at name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: Cannot launch daemon, file not found or permissions invalid
- This issue happens only for Static IP Addresses
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3
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