Fresh kickstart installation of lucid fails, - asking for ISCSI volumes

Bug #548617 reported by Stein Henrik Jensaas
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kickseed (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

 I have a fresh download from March 25th - 2010 of Lucid Lynx,
During kickstart installation it stops in menu:

!! Partitioning disks
This menu allows you to configure iSCSI volumes
iSCSI configuration actions
      Log into iSCSI targets
      Finish
<Go Back>

I do not want to use iSCSI devices, but I can not find a way out this menu.

* Selecting "Finish" Sends me straight back to this same menu again.
* Selecting "Log in..." an then continue without entering any iscsi-config makes a blue screen doing nothing. Ctrl C gets me out of this screen and then present the same menu again.
* Selecting "Go Back" sends me to the same blue screen, and so on...

I Expected the installation to complete without any question at all, like it do with my Lucid download from March 11th - 2010.

Here is a part of my kickstart file:

#System language
lang en_GB

#Language modules to install
langsupport en_GB nb_NO nn_NO --default=en_US

#System keyboard
keyboard no

#System mouse
mouse

#System timezone
timezone --utc Europe/Oslo

#Root password
rootpw --iscrypted $xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

#Initial user
user --disabled

#Reboot after installation
reboot

#Use text mode install
text

#Install Ubuntu instead of upgrade
install

#Use HTTP installation media
#url --url http://repo.met.no/ubuntu
url --url http://no.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu

#Disable the question of Iscsi partitioning in kisckstart
#iscsi=false

#System bootloader configuration
bootloader --location=mbr

#Clear the Master Boot Record
zerombr yes

#Clear all partitions from the disk
clearpart --drives=sda --initlabel

#Disk partitioning information
   # Bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kickseed/+bug/537421 ( does not work with --ondisk )
   #part / --fstype ext4 --size 15360 --asprimary --ondisk sda
   #part swap --fstype swap --size 2028 --asprimary --ondisk sda
   #part /home --fstype ext4 --size 10240 --ondisk sda
   #part /disk1 --fstype ext4 --size 1024 --grow --ondisk sda
part / --fstype ext4 --size 15360 --asprimary
part swap --fstype swap --size 2028 --asprimary
part /home --fstype ext4 --size 10240
part /disk1 --fstype ext4 --size 1024 --grow

#System authorization infomation
auth --useshadow --enablemd5

#Network information
network --bootproto dhcp

#Firewall configuration
firewall --disabled

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Stein Henrik Jensaas (steinhj) wrote :

I am not able to use kickseed anymore, and I can not install 300+ computers by hand !!
I am the only one with this problem ?

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Stein Henrik Jensaas (steinhj) wrote :

Still the same problem with my fresh lucid update from this morning.
Managed to install the openssh-client-udeb and attaching my syslog and partman log.

(the trailing sjh is just my initials )

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Stein Henrik Jensaas (steinhj) wrote :
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

I think this is another symptom of bug 546929. It should be fixed with the debian-installer rebuild that's currently running.

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spacejunk (spacewreckage) wrote :

I can confirm that this bug still exists in Ubuntu 10.04.1 trying to install on an HP DL360 G5.

"preseed --owner disk-detect disk-detect/iscsi/enable boolean false" and "iscsi=false" both fail to prevent the dialog from popping up.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

@spacejunk: Please file a new bug rather than following up to this one. (You can mention this bug in the bug comments if you like, but we shouldn't use this bug until we confirm that the *cause* is the same, not merely the symptoms.)

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in kickseed (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Floris (bos) wrote :

Just had a customer with the same problem, except he mentioned that installation continues normally when he presses "finish"

Making me think that in his case Ubuntu does not wait long enough for raid array detection to finish, after loading the disk controller modules. Ubuntu assumes there are no local disks too fast, and shows the iscsi configuration window.
Is there any easy way to introduce a delay after loading modules?

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Tamas Pasztor (tomcsi) wrote :

Any update from this bug?

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Bart Verwilst (verwilst) wrote :

The bug that this report is supposedly a duplicate of does not exist. Also, using Precise, i get the exact same iscsi box when trying to do an unattended install with kickstart. Pressing 'Finish' shows the 'Starting up the partitioner' screen for a split second, then show the iscsi login menu again, rendering unattended installs impossible.

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Bart Verwilst (verwilst) wrote :

Ok, i'll go sit in a corner and be quiet. My VM didnt have a disk assigned, and seemed to fall back to iscsi.

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