[CentOS] Possible bug in kickstart

Thu Jun 25 00:09:57 UTC 2015
James A. Peltier <jpeltier at sfu.ca>

Hello All,

I seem to have run into a bug with the new --bridgeslaves=<INTERFACE> option.  It would seem that if I tell the bridge device to use a virtual interface (like bond0) rather than a physical interface (em1/em2) that kickstart completely barfs on it.  I have provided my network section below which works fine as long as i don't enable all the bridge content.

When the installation starts off the creation of bond0 and all VLANs on bond0 go without issue.  Jumping into TTY2 I can type 'ip a' and see all the bond0 device and bond0.VLANID devices no problem.

When I enable bridge content with --bridgeslaves=bond0 or --bridgeslaves=bond0.VLANID anaconda barfs

When I enable bridge content with --bridgeslaves=em1 or --bridgeslaves=em2 anaconda doesn't have an issue.

Is this expected behaviour?  I really don't want to have to manually manipulate the ifcfg-bond* interfaces and create the ifcfg-BRIDGE* interfaces manually so I'd like this to work.




# Configure a bond over the slaves in failover mode
network --device=bond0 --noipv6 --bootproto=dhcp --onboot=yes --bondslaves=em1,em2 --bondopts=mode=active-backup;primary=em1 --activate

# Configure VLANs
network --device=bond0 --vlanid=11 --noipv6 --onboot=yes --bootproto=dhcp --activate
network --device=bond0 --vlanid=100 --noipv6 --onboot=yes --bootproto=dhcp --activate
network --device=bond0 --vlanid=302 --noipv6 --onboot=yes --bootproto=dhcp --activate
network --device=bond0 --vlanid=303 --noipv6 --onboot=yes --bootproto=dhcp --activate
network --device=bond0 --vlanid=304 --noipv6 --onboot=yes --bootproto=dhcp --activate
network --device=bond0 --vlanid=306 --noipv6 --onboot=yes --bootproto=dhcp --activate

# Create a bridge on the bonded VLAN interfaces
network --device=FASNET --bridgeslaves=bond0
network --device=GLUSTER --bridgeslaves=bond0.11
network --device=EXPERIMENTAL --bridgeslaves=bond0.302
network --device=NAT --bridgeslaves=bond0.303
network --device=DMZ2 --bridgeslaves=bond0.304
network --device=NETM --bridgeslaves=bond0.306

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