https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=332064#c2 Uwe Gansert changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |ug@novell.com AssignedTo|ug@novell.com |snwint@novell.com --- Comment #2 from Uwe Gansert 2007-10-19 05:44:23 MST --- I did pxe installations and I had no problems with that. Steffen, maybe you have an idea what might go wrong here. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=332064 User krienke@uni-koblenz.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=332064#c4 Rainer Krienke changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|INVALID | --- Comment #4 from Rainer Krienke 2007-12-06 07:51:39 MST --- I found out a little more. I now guess there is a bug somewhere in the code that evaluates the results of a SLP request by which the machine gets its installation server and the autoyast file. The slp.reg file on the slp server I use looks like this: service:install.suse:http://install.uni-koblenz.de/linux/suse10.3 autoyast=http://install.uni-koblenz.de/linux/suse10.3/autoinstall.xml,en,65535 defaultbase=i586 description=openSUSE 10.3 ++openSUSE-10.3-DVD++ #1 label=openSUSE 10.3 machine=i386,i486,i586,i686,x86_64 vendor=SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany version=10.3 Now I first tried to boot from CD1 of openSUSE10.3 and to specify manually the paramaters for installation server and autoyastfile. I used the very same parameters (for install=http://.... and autoyast=http://....)that are in the corresponding slp.reg file from above. This kind of installation starts fine. If I however say the system should take these parameters from the SLP server it fails as descrbied in this report. Because I needed to install *suse10.3* clients using autoyast without wanting to write the whole long install= and autoyast= URLs on the commandline each time I simply booted the system from a *SLES10 SP1* CD1 and advised the system to get the installation parameters for 10.3 again via SLP. This installation also works just fine. The SLP server config remained completely unchanged. Please note the only difference between the autoyast installation of a openSuSE 10.3 system that fails as described in this bug and the autoyast installation of a openSuSE10.3 system that works fine is the boot media. One time its a openSuSE 10.3 retail DVD1 (or CD1) using SLP which fails the other time its a SLES10 SP1 CD1 using SLP that works. Next I took a look at apache/access_log on the http installation server. When booting from a 10.3 media using SLP I see these requests: [06/Dec/2007:15:19:40 +0100] "GET /linux/suse10.3 autoyast=http://install.uni-koblenz.de/linux/suse10.3/autoinstall.xml/content HTTP/1.1" 301 352 "-" "-" [06/Dec/2007:15:19:40 +0100] "GET /linux/suse10.3/ HTTP/1.1" 200 4774 "-" "-" 141.26.67.253 - - [06/Dec/2007:15:19:40 +0100] "GET /linux/suse10.3 autoyast=http://install.uni-koblenz.de/linux/suse10.3/autoinstall.xml/content. asc HTTP/1.1" 301 352 "-" "-" [06/Dec/2007:15:19:40 +0100] "GET /linux/suse10.3/ HTTP/1.1" 200 4774 "-" "-" [06/Dec/2007:15:19:40 +0100] "GET /linux/suse10.3 autoyast=http://install.uni-koblenz.de/linux/suse10.3/autoinstall.xml/boot/i386/ root HTTP/1.1" 301 352 "-" "-" [06/Dec/2007:15:19:40 +0100] "GET /linux/suse10.3/ HTTP/1.1" 200 4774 "-" "-" The correct URL to the installation src would be: http://install.uni-koblenz.de/linux/suse10.3/ but somehow in the GET request I see nonsense: GET /linux/suse10.3/autoyast= ... autoinstall.xml/boot/i386/root Instead of: GET /linux/suse10.3/boot/i386/root It seems that the autoyast URL parameter gets inserted right into the URL to fetch the root image, which of course fails. But this only happens when the boot media is a 10.3 one -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=332064 User krienke@uni-koblenz.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=332064#c6 --- Comment #6 from Rainer Krienke 2007-12-07 00:58:43 MST --- Created an attachment (id=186326) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=186326) linuxrc log from SLP install which fails Here is the debug log you asked for. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=332064 User krienke@uni-koblenz.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=332064#c8 --- Comment #8 from Rainer Krienke 2008-02-18 07:25:48 MST --- Well the important line in the slp config file looks like this (one long line): service:install.suse:http://install.uni-koblenz.de/linux/suse10.3 autoyast=http://install.uni-koblenz.de/linux/suse10.3/autoinstall.xml,en,65535 So there simply is a service entry so that the system knows from where to get the installation repositories and an autoyast parameter for the installer, so the installer knows that autoyast is to be used and where to get the xml file from. If the slp entry was wrong, why does excatly this work with SLES10, and OpenSuse10.2? How should the slp entry look like if I want to run a network based installation that is guided by autoyast where the autoyast file is also "somewhere" in the network. I think the above line is exactly for this purpose? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=332064 Steffen Winterfeldt changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Severity|Critical |Major Status|REOPENED |ASSIGNED -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=332064 User snwint@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=332064#c11 --- Comment #11 from Steffen Winterfeldt 2008-06-20 03:41:05 MDT --- Simply lack of time. Also, I'm not an autoyast expert. But there's an autoinstall mailing list on opensuse.org. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.