Fuel setup menu doesn't have a support for serial interface

[Valeriy Saharov]

1. TROUBLE DESCRIPTION
1.1. Trouble summary
The fuel menu is written with urwid and there's no support for devices that only have a
serial interface.

1.2. Detailed trouble description
In ideal circumstances, after booting the Fuel ISO and choosing to show the Fuel
setup menu (showmenu=yes), a graphical menu (AKA fuelmenu) is shown in order to
configure the installation (http://docs.mirantis.com/openstack/fuel/fuel-6.0/user-guide.html#fuel-setup).
That menu is written with urwid and there's no support for devices that only have a
serial interface. This means that the menu is never shown and the default
configuration vales are used (root credentials being root:r00tme).

Even though the root password can be changed after the installation, the security
risk is still there: the time span between the end of the installation and the changing
of the password. There, the system's root account is be vulnerable, because it's
using a well-known password.

[Stanislaw Bogatkin (sbogatkin)]

There is a many workarounds to this, as from changing root password manually from another console to disable networking. Also, there is don't breaks deployment, so make it a medium.

[Aleksey Zvyagintsev (azvyagintsev)]

Stanislaw, i don’t think sow. in fuel menu also setup a lot of others parameters. also, in serial console, as i know, you cannot jump between "consoles".

[Matthew Mosesohn (raytrac3r)]

I communicated directly to Valery, but here are the results .
There is a workaround you can use for now:
1 - install Fuel from ISO normally
2 - on first reboot, boot with options console=ttyS0 1 (console + single user mode)
3 - modify password manually OR /etc/init.d/networking start and run fuelmenu (fuelmenu requires networking)
4 - init 3 and proceed
The console interface won't show bootstrap script by default and it requires more serious investigation.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Related fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/223460

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/223460
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/stackforge/fuel-docs/commit/?id=58908f1f2e4686750477b4a3dd026245f19df4e1
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit 58908f1f2e4686750477b4a3dd026245f19df4e1
Author: evkonstantinov <email address hidden>
Date: Tue Sep 15 10:39:46 2015 +0300

    Add fuelmenu on serial interface issue to relnotes

    Change-Id: I610e7a30648a43e52f32cd1bce66fb12ebd39c18
    Related-Bug:#1438658

[Matthew Mosesohn (raytrac3r)]

Some serial consoles seem to work, but not vt102 (lbivirt default). You can work around this by using the following steps:
1 - boot with your serial console
2 - manually configure your networking
3 - ssh in remotely
4 - run fuelmenu there and save
5 - run bootstrap_admin_node.sh manually

In case of 5, if docker containers already exist, run dockerctl restart all