Why does initial-setup fail parsing the anaconda-ks.cfg post installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Kickstart?
Issue
- Kickstart Installation done using kickstart file with
firstboot --reconfig. - After reboot, no
initial setupwindows is displayed whereasinitial-setup-graphicalservice is aborted because error in/root/anaconda-ks.cfg - The kickstart partitioning is as follows.
clearpart --all --initlabel
part /boot --size=500 --fstype=xfs --asprimary
part pv.01 --size=1000 --grow
volgroup vgsys pv.01
logvol / --fstype=xfs --name=rootvol --vgname=vgsys --size=9000
logvol /tmp --fstype=xfs --name=tmpvol --vgname=vgsys --percent=2
- The error while starting the service is as follows.
[root@localhost ~]# service initial-setup-graphical start
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start initial-setup-graphical.service
[root@localhost ~]# service initial-setup-graphical status
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status initial-setup-graphical.service
● initial-setup-graphical.service - Initial Setup configuration program
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/initial-setup-graphical.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: inactive (dead) since Mon 2016-03-14 06:35:26 MDT; 3s ago
Process: 10907 ExecStart=/bin/xinit /bin/firstboot-windowmanager /bin/initial-setup -- /bin/Xorg :9 -ac -nolisten tcp (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 10906 ExecStartPre=/bin/plymouth quit (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 10907 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Mar 14 06:35:25 localhost.localdomain initial-setup[10917]: categories
Mar 14 06:35:25 localhost.localdomain initial-setup[10917]: initializing the Anaconda log
Mar 14 06:35:25 localhost.localdomain initial-setup[10917]: initializing threading
Mar 14 06:35:25 localhost.localdomain initial-setup[10917]: initializing network logging
Mar 14 06:35:25 localhost.localdomain initial-setup[10917]: parsing input kickstart /root/anaconda-ks.cfg
Mar 14 06:35:25 localhost.localdomain initial-setup[10917]: kickstart parsing failed: The following problem occurred on line 49 of the kickstart file:
--size and --percent cannot both be specified for the same logvol...
Mar 14 06:35:25 localhost.localdomain xinit[10907]: Exception AttributeError: "'NoneType' object has no attribute 'udev_unref'" in <bound met...ignored
Mar 14 06:35:25 localhost.localdomain xinit[10907]: /bin/xinit: connection to X server lost
Mar 14 06:35:26 localhost.localdomain xinit[10907]: waiting for X server to shut down (II) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.
Mar 14 06:35:26 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Started Initial Setup configuration program.
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Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2
- Kickstart Installation
- Firstboot
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