When doing a kickstart script install, a package that modifies the timezone may cause anaconda to crash.

[KimEbert42]

This may be an upstream issue that has been solved in a later release.

Example kickstart script:

Kickstart script for the Webapp

version=6

install

url --url=http://10.10.10.50/mirror/CentOS/6/os/x86_64

repo --name=customrepo --baseurl=http://somewhere
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
network --bootproto dhcp --noipv6
rootpw --iscrypted XaTsKD57f6RMU
authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512 --disablefingerprint
selinux --enforcing
timezone --utc America/Boise
bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=hda
reboot --eject
firstboot --enable
services --disabled=network --enabled=NetworkManager

%packages
@base
@core

system administration tools

crypto-utils
firstboot
httpd
mysql
mysql-server
mod_ssl
NetworkManager
openssl
openssh-clients
php
php-xml
php-mysql
rsync
system-config-firewall-tui
system-config-network-tui
setuptool
screen
vim

custom-package

Example custom package POST script.

%post

rm -f /etc/localtime.bak
cp -f /etc/localtime /etc/localtime.bak
rm -f /etc/localtime
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC /etc/localtime

Anaconda crashes with

Read-only file system: '/mnt/sysimage/etc/localtime'

Upon examining the file, it is a symlink to

ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC /etc/localtime

Although it probably makes sense for the kickstart script and rpm to agree on timezones.

[herlo]

This also happens on upstream 6.0. Moving milestone to 6.1b