F24 beta virt-install with kickstart fails

[Jos Vos]

Hi,

Did anyone succeed in virt-install'ing F24 beta using kickstart
(on CentOS 6 host, if that matters)?

I see lots of warnings (dracut-initqueue), then the console goes
into a slowly filling bar at the bottom (plymouthd!?), then I see
lots of "No space left on device" errors, then a dracut emergency
shell is started.

The generated rdsosreport.txt contains 34284 lines...

FWIW, when *not* using kickstart I can install F24 beta on the
same system with virt-install fine.

Thx,

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[Adam Williamson]

On Sat, 2016-05-14 at 17:44 +0200, Jos Vos wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  Did anyone succeed in virt-install'ing F24 beta using kickstart
>  (on CentOS 6 host, if that matters)?
>  
>  I see lots of warnings (dracut-initqueue), then the console goes
>  into a slowly filling bar at the bottom (plymouthd!?), then I see
>  lots of "No space left on device" errors, then a dracut emergency
>  shell is started.
>  
>  The generated rdsosreport.txt contains 34284 lines...
>  
>  FWIW, when *not* using kickstart I can install F24 beta on the
>  same system with virt-install fine. 
I don't use virt-install, but we've done many kickstart installs of F24
both manually and in openQA and they work fine.
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[Viorel Tabara]

On Fri May 20 2016 15:02:17 GMT-0600 (MDT) Adam Williamson 
<adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  I don't use virt-install, but we've done many kickstart
> installs of F24
>  both manually and in openQA and they work fine. 
"No space left on device" may hint to wrong partitioning or disk allocation.  
Jos can you try with a very basic ks file first and post it here?

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Viorel

[Jos Vos]

Hi,

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 03:48:50PM -0600, Viorel Tabara wrote:

>  "No space left on device" may hint to wrong partitioning or
> disk allocation.  
>  Jos can you try with a very basic ks file first and post it here? 
See the attached ks-file.  Simpler I can't make it...

This is the virt-install command (on CentOS 6.6):

virt-install -n f24t2016b -r 1024 --arch=x86_64 --vcpus=2 -l
f24beta-x86_64/images/boot.iso --os-type=Linux --os-variant=fedora18 --disk
/var/lib/libvirt/images/f24test.img,format=qcow2,size=50
--extra-args=ks=http://192.168.180.20:8888/f24beta-x86_64/ks/ks-f24test.cfg --network
bridge=br0,mac=52:54:00:00:18:02,model=virtio

Note that it *does* pick up the ks-file correctly.

Using another mirror (this one is the closest to me) doesn't help,
enabling the updates repo doesn't help, explicitly using a big size
for / (i.s.o. --grow) doesn't help, etc...

Thanks,

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[Kamil Paral]

>  > "No space left on device" may hint to wrong
> partitioning or disk
>  > allocation.
>  > Jos can you try with a very basic ks file first and post it here?
>  
>  See the attached ks-file.  Simpler I can't make it... 
I tested your ks in virt-manager with F24 Beta Server netinst and it worked without
problems.

Try virt-manager, give it more RAM (this is quite likely, the requirements increased
recently), don't set it as Fedora 18, make sure you have a vda disk. Please report
back if you find out what the problem was. Thanks.

[Jos Vos]

Hi,

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 09:36:50AM -0400, Kamil Paral wrote:

>  I tested your ks in virt-manager with F24 Beta Server netinst and it
> worked without problems.
>  
>  Try virt-manager, give it more RAM (this is quite likely, the requirements increased
> recently), don't set it as Fedora 18, make sure you have a vda disk. Please report
> back if you find out what the problem was. Thanks. 
OK, my 1GB RAM was the problem, sigh... I guess the RAM-disk it creates
isn't big enough then.  I changed RAM from 1024 to 2048 and now it works.

Thanks for your help, I'm still from the time we could run Linux
(with X11 !) on a 386 in 8 MB RAM... ;-).  Still doubting whether
assuming "enough" RAM for temporary storage is such a good idea...

Some other remarks:

-  My "virt-install --os-variant=list" shows "fedora18" (described as
   "Fedora 18 or later") as the highest choice in Fedora-land.  Should
   I better choose something else?

-  There are zillions of "dracut-initqueue" warnings of deprecated
   Python stuff during the install.  This won't be fixed before GA?

Cheers,

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[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2016-05-23 at 16:04 +0200, Jos Vos wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 09:36:50AM -0400, Kamil Paral wrote:
>  
>  > I tested your ks in virt-manager with F24 Beta Server netinst and it worked without
> problems.
>  > 
>  > Try virt-manager, give it more RAM (this is quite likely, the requirements increased
> recently), don't set it as Fedora 18, make sure you have a vda disk. Please report
> back if you find out what the problem was. Thanks.
>  
>  OK, my 1GB RAM was the problem, sigh... I guess the RAM-disk it creates
>  isn't big enough then.  I changed RAM from 1024 to 2048 and now it works.
>  
>  Thanks for your help, I'm still from the time we could run Linux
>  (with X11 !) on a 386 in 8 MB RAM... ;-).  Still doubting whether
>  assuming "enough" RAM for temporary storage is such a good idea... 
You can *run* Fedora with very little RAM, but you can't *install* it
with as little, due to memory usage by dnf during install when there is
no swap partition. Exactly how much is needed varies a bit depending on
whether you're doing a live install, what installer interface you're
using, how many packages you're installing, whether it's a full moon,
etc...I've seen it work with 512MB and fail with 1.5.
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[Michael Tippie]

This was my problem too, finally finding this thread moved me past this blocker.  THANK
YOU.