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Installing CentOS 7 on Supermicro SYS-6027TR-HTRF. The installer stops at:

Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.NetworkManager:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.TimedOut:
Activation of org.freedesktop.NetworkManager timed out

Very similar issue to described below (screenshot matches mine output): http://blog.endpoint.com/2015/01/centos-7-on-hetzner-server-with-more.html

Could the problem lie with network interfaces named: em1, em2,…etc? (I've checked and that's my case too)

msciwoj
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Ran into the issue on a similar supermicro server. After messing around with udev names and trying to get NetworkManager to be happy, I gave up and just ran the installer using vnc with the following parameters to pass on boot:

vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img inst.vnc inst.vncpassword=secretpass ksdevice=em1 ip=1.2.3.4 gateway=1.2.3.4 netmask=255.255.255.0 nameserver=1.2.3.4 inst.repo=http://mirror.cs.pitt.edu/centos/7/os/x86_64

Obviously replace IP, gateway, netmask, nameserver and the inst.repo with your values. Once the server comes up (systemd-udev on the initrd renames eth0 to em1!), just connect with a VNC client (TightVNC?) and configure away!

Not sure about everyone else, but i'm disabling NetworkManager the moment I get in.

tahdraug
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