Re: more cfagent during kickstart woes

[Ed Brown]

Good advice, especially if cfagent is hanging within kickstart.  If you
switch to alt+F2, do 'chroot /mnt/sysimage' to get to the same
environment that commands in %post (by default) run in.  

-Ed


On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 11:32, Jeff Sheltren wrote:
> Hi Lars, I haven't seen this problem and I have used cfengine in my
> kickstart scripts for both FC1 and FC2.  What I would recommend is that you
> have kickstart run cfengine in verbose mode (maybe even debug?).  Then, you
> can watch the output on one of the install screens (ctrl+alt+F3 I think).
> Hopefully that will help you track down the problem.  If not, you can access
> the shell (ctrl+alt+F2 during install), and do an strace or similar on the
> cfengine process to see what is up.
> 
> -Jeff
> 
> 
> On 7/27/04 10:19 AM, "Lars Damerow" <lars@pixar.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi folks!
> > 
> > I'm once again having issues running cfagent during the Fedora kickstart
> > scripts. It doesn't seem to be doing any work--it's just eating 99% of the 
> > CPU
> > somewhere in its getopt handling. This is with version 2.1.7.
> > 
> > Has anyone seen this behavior? The fact that cfengine is running during the
> > kickstart post scripts makes debugging pretty hard, so if anyone has any 
> > tips
> > for debugging during kickstart, I'd love to hear them.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > -lars
> > 
> > --
> > lars damerow
> > button pusher
> > pixar animation studios
> > lars@pixar.com
> > 
> > "Son, I am able," she said, "though you scare me."
> > "Watch," said I. "Beloved," I said, "watch me scare you though."
> > Said she, "Able am I, Son.."
> > 
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