Why does kickstart installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 fail with error "curl server denied you to change to the given directory" ?

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Issue

  • Why does kickstart installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 fail with error curl: server denied you to change to the given directory ?
  • The complete errors are as follows.
[ [32m  OK   [0m] Mounted Configuration File System.                                                                                
dracut-initqueue[656]: % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current                                
dracut-initqueue[656]: Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed                                                                 
dracut-initqueue[656]: 0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0   0     0    0     0    0     0 
     0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0                                                                                      
dracut-initqueue[656]: curl: (9) Server denied you to change to the given directory                                                 
dracut-initqueue[656]: Warning: failed to fetch kickstart from ftp://192.168.0.254/pub/ks.cfg
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dracut-initqueue[656]: % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current                                
dracut-initqueue[656]: Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed                                                                 
dracut-initqueue[656]: 0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0   0     0    0     0    0     0 
     0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0                                                                                      
dracut-initqueue[656]: curl: (9) Server denied you to change to the given directory                                                 
dracut-initqueue[656]: Warning: Downloading 'ftp://192.168.0.254/pub/rhel71/.treeinfo' failed!                 
dracut-initqueue[656]: Warning: can't find installer mainimage path in .treeinfo                                                    
dracut-initqueue[656]: % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current  
dracut-initqueue[656]: Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed                                                                 
dracut-initqueue[656]: 0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0   0     0    0     0    0     0 
     0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0                                                                                      
dracut-initqueue[656]: curl: (9) Server denied you to change to the given directory                                                 
dracut-initqueue[656]: Warning: Downloading 'ftp://192.168.0.254/pub/rhel71/LiveOS/squashfs.img' failed!       
dracut-initqueue[656]: % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current                                
dracut-initqueue[656]: Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed                                                                 
dracut-initqueue[656]: 0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0   0     0    0     0    0     0 
     0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0                                                                                      
dracut-initqueue[656]: curl: (9) Server denied you to change to the given directory                                                 
dracut-initqueue[656]: Warning: failed to fetch kickstart from ftp://192.168.0.254/pub/ks.cfg
g                                                                                                                                   
dracut-initqueue[656]: % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current                                
dracut-initqueue[656]: Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed                                                                 
dracut-initqueue[656]: 0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0   0     0    0     0    0     0 
     0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0                                                                                      
dracut-initqueue[656]: curl: (9) Server denied you to change to the given directory                                                 
dracut-initqueue[656]: Warning: Downloading 'ftp://192.168.0.254/pub/rhel71/.treeinfo' failed!                 
dracut-initqueue[656]: Warning: can't find installer mainimage path in .treeinfo                                                    
dracut-initqueue[656]: % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current                                
dracut-initqueue[656]: Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed                                                                 
dracut-initqueue[656]: 0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0   0     0    0     0    0     0 
     0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0                                                                                      
dracut-initqueue[656]: curl: (9) Server denied you to change to the given directory                                                 
dracut-initqueue[656]: Warning: Downloading 'ftp://192.168.0.254/pub/rhel71/LiveOS/squashfs.img' failed!

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1

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