[fedora-virt] unattended install w/ 'virt-install' just hangs on the serial console [F16 guest on F16 host]

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

On 10/11/2011 06:23 PM, Andrew Jones wrote:
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was trying virt-install an F16 guest on an Fedora-16 latest host.
>> It just basically
>> hangs after 'setfilecon' on a non-existent device. Refer the virsh
>> serial console o/p
>>
>>
>>
>>  ==> Version Info <==
>> ######################################################################
>> [root at moon ~]# uname -r ; rpm -q qemu-kvm libvirt python-virtinst
>> 3.1.0-0.rc9.git0.0.fc16.x86_64
>> qemu-kvm-0.15.0-5.fc16.x86_64
>> libvirt-0.9.6-2.fc16.x86_64
>> python-virtinst-0.600.0-5.fc16.noarch
>> [root at moon ~]#
>> ######################################################################
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Below is a snippet of serial console o/p where the virt-install hung.
>> #######################################################################
>> .
>> .
>> .
>> .
>> Starting Initialize storage subsystems (RAID, LVM, etc.) failed, see
>> 'systemctl status
>> fedora-storage-init-late.service' for details.
>> [0/386]
>> [    4.235192] systemd[1]: Unit fedora-storage-init-late.service
>> entered failed state.
>> Started POSIX Message Queue File System.
>> Started Debug File System.
>> Started Huge Pages File System.
>> Started Security File System.
>> Starting Monitoring of LVM2 mirrors, snapshots etc. using dmeventd or
>> progress polling...
>> Started Load legacy module configuration.
>> Starting File System Check on Root Device...
>> Starting Setup Virtual Console...
>> Started Load Kernel Modules.
>> Started FUSE Control File System.
>> Started Configuration File System.
>> [    4.350713] systemd-fsck[297]: Root directory is writable,
>> skipping check.
>> Starting Apply Kernel Variables...
>> Started Set Up Additional Binary Formats.
>> Starting STDOUT Syslog Bridge...
>> [    4.405194] systemd-vconsole-setup[303]: /bin/loadkeys failed with
>> error code 1.
>> [    4.408727] systemd-vconsole-setup[303]: /bin/setfont failed with
>> error code 1.
>> Started STDOUT Syslog Bridge.
>> Started udev Coldplug all Devices.
>> Started File System Check on Root Device.
>> Started Setup Virtual Console.
>> Started Apply Kernel Variables.
>> Starting Remount Root FS...
>> Starting udev Wait for Complete Device Initialization...
>> [    4.517828] mount[328]: warning: can't open /etc/fstab: No such
>> file or directory
>> [    4.551845] EXT4-fs (dm-0): re-mounted. Opts:
>> user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered
>> Started Remount Root FS.
>> [    4.586326] lvm[296]: No volume groups found
>> Started Monitoring of LVM2 mirrors, snapshots etc. using dmeventd or
>> progress polling.
>> Started Reconfigure the system on administrator request.
>> Started Relabel all filesystems, if necessary.
>> Started Mark the need to relabel after reboot.
>> Starting Load Random Seed...
>> Starting Recreate Volatile Files and Directories...
>> Started Load Random Seed.
>> [    4.703010] systemd-tmpfiles[345]: Successfully loaded SELinux
>> database in 39ms 665us,
>> size on heap is 468K.
>> Started Recreate Volatile Files and Directories.
>> [    5.424048]  vda: unknown partition table
>> Started udev Wait for Complete Device Initialization.
>> Starting Software RAID Monitor Takeover...
>> Started anaconda performance monitor.
>> Starting System Logging Service...
>> Starting Shell on tty2...
>> [    5.879702] udevd[298]: setfilecon /dev/vcs2 failed: No such file
>> or directory
>> Started Shell on tty2.
>> Looking for the virtio ports... done.
>> Starting Anaconda version 16.20.
>> #######################################################################
>>
>> ==> Script I used <==
>> # virt-install --connect=qemu:///system \
>>     --network=bridge:br0 \
>>     --initrd-inject=/export/fed.ks \
>>     --extra-args="ks=file:/fed.ks console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200"
>>     \
>>     --name=$domname \
>>     --disk /export/vmimgs/$domname.img,size=20 \
>>     --ram 2048 \
>>     --vcpus=2 \
>>     --check-cpu \
>>     --accelerate \
>>     --hvm \
>>     --location=$location1 \
>>     --nographics
>> #######################################################################
>>
>> ==> Kickstart <==
>>
>> # cat fed.ks
>> install
>> text
>> reboot
>> lang en_US.UTF-8
>> keyboard us
>> network --bootproto dhcp
>> rootpw redhat
>> firewall --enabled --ssh
>> selinux --enforcing
>> timezone --utc America/New_York
>> bootloader --location=mbr --append="console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200
>> rd_NO_PLYMOUTH"
>> zerombr
>> clearpart --all --initlabel
>> autopart
>>
>> %packages
>> @core
>> %end
>> #######################################################################
>>
>> Am I missing something?  Any hints here?
>>
> 
> Try adding 'serial text' to your --extra-args/--append

I just re-tried it w/ this.
######
--extra-args="ks=file:/rhel.ks console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200 serial text" \
######

Doesn't budge. It's still hung like that:

#####################################################################################
.
.
[    4.845707] systemd-tmpfiles[363]: Successfully loaded SELinux database in 42ms 937us,
size on heap is 473K.
Started Recreate Volatile Files and Directories.
[    5.545117]  vda: unknown partition table
Started udev Wait for Complete Device Initialization.
Starting Software RAID Monitor Takeover...
Started anaconda performance monitor.
Starting System Logging Service...
Starting Shell on tty2...
Started Shell on tty2.
Looking for the virtio ports... done.
Starting Anaconda version 16.20.
#####################################################################################

Just to note: An F15 guest works just fine. w/ the same script I mentioned above..

> 
> Drew
> 
>>
>> /kashyap
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