On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, anax wrote:
> Hi listers
> i tried to kickstart-install CentOS 6.0 64 in a Virtualbox (Virtualbox
> Version 4.12). I used a local CDROM with the net-install ISO on it to
> boot from. The ISO distribution file was provided on a server in the LAN
> as was the kickstart file.
> When starting the installation i aded the following to the kernel line
> of the grub menu:
> ks=http://install.mydomain.com/ks/centos.6.64.cfg
>
> After i had corrected some errors in the kickstart file, the
> installation started as expected.
> But it did not terminate as expected: after installing 198 of 671
> packages, the installation halted with an error (i.e. after installing
> the package libutempter).
> In order to see what the problem was, i restarted from the CDROM in
> recovery mode, and after going into the half-way installed system, i saw
> in the anaconda log that about three quarters of the post-installation
> scripts of the packages had returned a warning. The warning code was
> 255. But the post-installation script of the package libutempter had
> returned an error with code 255, whereupon the installation stopped.
>
> I thought, OK, we will work around the libutempter package by selecting
> other program-groups in the kickstart-file. But i had no luck: the
> installation stopped then after the package MAKEDEV.
This is a known bug of CentOS 6.0. Redo the install without including the
updates repo in your kickstart file, and you'll find it installs fine.
jh
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