Re: install hangs inside of virtual machine

Hello Loni,

the bug you referenced in bnc#799496 looks very similar in terms of 
console output, but was in the _net_nfs_mount procedure of linuxrc, 
hence affecting NFS mounts only.

Personally, I never understood how this problem appeared in the first 
place, as the troublesome code had been working nicely for openSUSE < 
12.3. This suggests that some other change in linuxrc or elsewhere 
caused the good code to go bad.

Hence, similarly to NFS mounts suddenly hanging in linuxrc (for whatever 
reason), it may not be too far fetched to assume that some other part of 
linuxrc causes your problem.

If you can reproduce your problem *with a real machine*, I would open a 
bugreport with Novell against LinuxRC.

Best regards,
Joschi Brauchle

On 08/06/2013 07:38 PM, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> Greetings,
> I'm trying to run an autoyast based installation of SLES11-SP3 inside
> of a KVM based virtual machine (host OS is Fedora19-x86_64, if that
> matters), and it is consistently hanging at:
> Sending dhcp request to eth0
>
> It sounds quite similar to this bug:
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799496
>
> however, I'm not installing over NFS at all.  I'm invoking the
> installation from local media, and pulling down all components via
> http.  This is the isolinux 'append' entry that I'm using:
>
> textmode=1 initrd=sles113_64bit.img
> autoyast=http://172.20.232.152/distros/suse/os/SLES11-SP3/x86_64/autoyastcuda.xml
> install=http://172.20.232.152/distros/suse/os/SLES11-SP3/x86_64
>
>
> Has anyone else run into anything like this?
>
> thanks