Thanks Pat! I commented out the /etc/hosts hack from our kickstart file and the install seems to be working normally again now.
Graham On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 12:34:01PM -0500, Pat Riehecky wrote: > That's news to me! > > I've disabled mod_speling on the distribution servers, it the > 'correct' 404 response should be produced now. > > Pat > > On 06/03/2013 12:20 PM, Graham Allan wrote: > >We just had to install a couple of SL 6.1 machines (due to collaboration > >dependency on this version) and strangely found that the installation > >would bomb every time with an anaconda error when trying to parse > >/tmp/.treeinfo. The file contains the following contents: > > > ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> > ><html><head> > ><title>300 Multiple Choices</title> > ></head><body> > ><h1>Multiple Choices</h1> > >The document name you requested > >(<code>/linux/scientific/6.1/x86_64/updates/security//.treeinfo</code>) > >could not be found on this server. > >However, we found documents with names similar to the one you > >requested.<p>Available documents: > ><ul> > ><li><a > >href="/linux/scientific/6.0/x86_64/updates/security//.">/linux/scientific/6.1/x86_64/updates/security//.</a> > > (common basename) > ><li><a > >href="/linux/scientific/6.0/x86_64/updates/security//..">/linux/scientific/6.1/x86_64/updates/security//..</a> > > (common basename) > ></ul> > ></body></html> > > > >This is curious because we are installing from a local copy of the 6.1 repo, > >our > >kickstart file hasn't changed in a long time, worked ok when last used > >earlier > >this year, etc. > > > >To cut a long story short I eventually found this at > >scientificlinuxforum.org: > >http://scientificlinuxforum.org/index.php?showtopic=2302 > > > >it was suggested there that someone post this to the SL lists but I > >don't see any sign that happened. Their workaround of a dummy hosts > >entry for ftp.scientificlinux.org does let the install succeed, but I > >imagine that either putting the file back into place, or disabling the > >"helpful" response from the server in favor of a plain 404 response, > >should help? > > > >Although I'm curious why anaconda is attempting to download a file from > >ftp.scientificlinux.org when all the declared sources are local - some > >oversight in the installer build? > > > >The same problem afflicts SL 6.0, btw. > > > >Thanks, > > > >Graham > > > -- > Pat Riehecky > > Scientific Linux developer > http://www.scientificlinux.org/ > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Graham Allan - I.T. Manager - al...@physics.umn.edu - (612) 624-5040 School of Physics and Astronomy - University of Minnesota -------------------------------------------------------------------------
