Kickstart RHEL 5 System Fails at rhnreg_ks
Issue
When kickstarting new RHEL systems using satellite, system fails as soon as the rhnreg_ks portion of the kickstart runs. Multiple symptoms of failure occur:
- Many RPM commands fail with PANIC.
- NTP updates fail.
- System date jumped to 2038.
rhnreg_ks called from kickstart configuration.
rhnreg_ks
--serverUrl=https://172.17.87.81/XMLRPC
--sslCACert=/usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT
--activationkey=1-4ff7ede6f2eb95d3580651d06743ab84,1-bloomberg-rhel5.5
--profilename=$_myname
# end Red Hat management server registration
# end cobbler snippet
rhn_check
Environment
- Satellite 5.3
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5)
- rhn-client-tools-0.4.20-33.el5.noarch
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