Community kickstart and GNOME

I've mainly worked with standalone or scripted installs of Linux before, so
my Kickstart skills aren't particularly deep, but have been getting to
grips with Foreman and Puppet over the last six months. I'm currently
trying out Fedora 20 (the latest that the community-contributed Kickstart
provision in foreman_templates is designed for) and can deploy a system to
multi-user mode very easily.

I'm now having problems getting that Kickstart to go to a GNOME desktop - I
generally see plenty of gnome-… packages going on during the install, but
when it comes to first boot, console 1 hangs and logging into console 2
shows that package group @gnome-desktop is not installed as I had requested
in the %packages section.

If I do yum install @gnome-desktop, then reboot, the GUI comes up fine.

I've made minimal changes to the original template:

commented skipx with a #
added a line "xconfig --defaultdesktop=gnome --startxonboot"
added @gnome-desktop below @Code in the %packages section

Is there anything else I need to do to the template to get GNOME installed
successfully? This is becoming quite a blocker to us offering a Fedora
desktop as well as the other options we already have.

Thanks,

Iain.

> Is there anything else I need to do to the template to get GNOME installed
> successfully? This is becoming quite a blocker to us offering a Fedora
> desktop as well as the other options we already have.

You do it right. Can you investigate yum logs from Anaconda for any
reasons why the group would not be installed?

Can you try different Fedora version?

··· -- Later, Lukas #lzap Zapletal

>
> > Is there anything else I need to do to the template to get GNOME
> installed
> > successfully? This is becoming quite a blocker to us offering a Fedora
> > desktop as well as the other options we already have.
>
> You do it right. Can you investigate yum logs from Anaconda for any
> reasons why the group would not be installed?
>

Have checked the anaconda logs and very little indication of errors. In
fact at one point it seems to have claimed that gnome-desktop3 has been
installed:

14:45:59,152 INFO packaging: gnome-desktop3-3.10.2-2.fc20.x86_64 (799/960)

> Can you try different Fedora version?
>

I'll try that next with F19 - the F21 repositories are a different shape.

  • Iain.
··· On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:11:00 UTC, Lukas Zapletal wrote:


Later,
Lukas #lzap Zapletal

Now tried with Fedora 19 and 20, and I'm getting the same in each - no
graphical environment, and on the reboot after install, TTY1 just sits
there on one or other of the status messages. Still nothing indicating that
anything has gone wrong in the logs that I can see. If I issue the command
yum install @gnome-desktop in TTY2, it works fine.

Has anyone got any more specific troubleshooting steps that I can try?

··· On Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:45:46 UTC, Iain Hallam wrote: > > On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:11:00 UTC, Lukas Zapletal wrote: >> >> > Is there anything else I need to do to the template to get GNOME >> installed >> > successfully? This is becoming quite a blocker to us offering a Fedora >> > desktop as well as the other options we already have. >> >> You do it right. Can you investigate yum logs from Anaconda for any >> reasons why the group would not be installed? >> > > Have checked the anaconda logs and very little indication of errors. In > fact at one point it seems to have claimed that gnome-desktop3 has been > installed: > > 14:45:59,152 INFO packaging: gnome-desktop3-3.10.2-2.fc20.x86_64 (799/960) > > >> Can you try different Fedora version? >> > > I'll try that next with F19 - the F21 repositories are a different shape. > > - Iain. > >> >> -- >> Later, >> Lukas #lzap Zapletal >> >

> Has anyone got any more specific troubleshooting steps that I can try?

Pastebin whole kickstart (rendered). Show host -> Preview Template.

··· -- Later, Lukas #lzap Zapletal

Have put this up on http://pastebin.com/A8712iku - it's the community one
with minimal changes to try to get a Gnome desktop booting. Thanks for
having a look.

··· On Tuesday, 3 February 2015 08:10:01 UTC, Lukas Zapletal wrote: > > > Has anyone got any more specific troubleshooting steps that I can try? > > Pastebin whole kickstart (rendered). Show host -> Preview Template. > > > -- > Later, > Lukas #lzap Zapletal >

Unfortunately I still can't see why this Kickstart won't boot to Gnome -
can anyone help, please?

Thanks,

Iain.

··· On Tuesday, 10 February 2015 14:53:02 UTC, Iain Hallam wrote: > > Have put this up on http://pastebin.com/A8712iku - it's the community one > with minimal changes to try to get a Gnome desktop booting. Thanks for > having a look. > > On Tuesday, 3 February 2015 08:10:01 UTC, Lukas Zapletal wrote: >> >> > Has anyone got any more specific troubleshooting steps that I can try? >> >> Pastebin whole kickstart (rendered). Show host -> Preview Template. >> >> >> -- >> Later, >> Lukas #lzap Zapletal >> >

> Unfortunately I still can't see why this Kickstart won't boot to Gnome -
> can anyone help, please?

You could try Fedora list rather than here. We are little bit
server-oriented.

··· -- Later, Lukas #lzap Zapletal