[CentOS] CentOS6.6 installation failure

Mon Apr 20 12:55:33 UTC 2015
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 04/20/2015 07:21 AM, lhecking at users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> 
> I have been installing CentOS for years using PXE, kickstart and NFS, but the
> procedure fails with CentOS 6.6 for some reason.
> 
> A PXE-initiated, manual install goes through all the setup steps, and once
> rpm installation has started, it dies after a few packages:
> 
> anaconda 13.21.229 exception report
> Traceback (most recent call first):
>   File "/usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py", line 1006, in _handleFailure
>     os.unlink(package.localPkg())
>   File "/usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py", line 196, in callback
>     self.ayum._handleFailure(po, trynumber)
> OSError: [Errno 30] Read-only file system: '/mnt/source/Packages/mailcap-2.1.31-2.el6.noarch.rpm'
> 
> When a kickstart file is used instead, the installation dies at a different
> package.
> 
> I have tried providing the OS installation files from different machines,
> checked package integrity etc., but cannot figure out what is happening here.
> 
> The anaconda traceback file also has
> 
> 12:19:59,354 WARNING : Failed to get file:///mnt/source/Packages/mailcap-2.1.31-
> 2.el6.noarch.rpm from mirror 1/1, or downloaded file is corrupt
> 12:19:59,354 WARNING : package download failure, retrying automatically
> 
> That said, installing 6.4 off the same NFS server works just fine.

I would say to eliminate issues, the first thing to make sure is that
your mailcap package is, indeed, good.




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