[Spacewalk-list] 0.8 Kickstart Issue : Unable to retrieve rpm's

[Bradley Radjoo]

Hello all,

Please can you help me out

I found the below previous post which related to an issue in cobbler in 0.7

My spacewalk server is a clean installation, running CentOS 32 bit and I have a performed a 0.8 installation of Centos.
(I have followed all the guidelines supplied by http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PackageManagement/Spacewalk - SE Linux disabled)

Yet when I attempt a 32-bit kickstart installation of CentOS, it fails to retrieve the rpm's :


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* The /var/log/httpd/access_log shows this about 10 times until it gives up :

 <ip>              [31/Mar/2010:12:04:08 +0200] "GET /ks/dist/CentOS-5-i386/CentOS/chkconfig-1.3.30.1-2.i386.rpm HTTP/1.1" 200 162614 "-" "urlgrabber/3.1.0 yum/3.2.22"
127.0.0.1 - - [31/Mar/2010:12:04:10 +0200] "GET /rhn/common/DownloadFile.do?url=/ks/dist/CentOS-5-i386/CentOS/chkconfig-1.3.30.1-2.i386.rpm HTTP/1.1" 200 162614 "-" "urlgrabber/3.1.0 yum/3.2.22"

* I am running the latest version of cobbler 

# rpm -qa | grep cobbler
cobbler-2.0.3.1-3.el5

- I have also attempted to via the Web UI :  --> admin --> Spacewalk Configuration --> Cobbler
And I ran the "Run Cobbler Sync  - Update" and re-attempted the kickstart install...but fails with the same error message...

I really need your assistance

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Regards,

Bradley Radjoo 

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. ? Albert Einstein.





On 28 Jan 2010, at 1:02 AM, Justin Sherrill wrote:

> On 1/25/10 12:08 PM, Justin Sherrill wrote:
>> On 1/23/10 6:02 PM, Rob See wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>> 
>> Spoke with rob in #spacewalk, thought i'd post our answers here.
>> 
>>> I've run into a couple problems after doing the 0.7 update. Any suggestions would be appreciated
>>> 
>>> 1) kickstart script generation is broken. I found an earlier post about how to fix the script manually, but it seems that anytime I make any changes to the kickstart config in the gui, I've got to go and apply the fix again. The problem I'm referring to is the following error message when you view the kickstart file
>>> 
>>> # ErrorCatcher instance has no attribute 'listErrors'
>>> #   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/templar.py", line 122, in render
>>> #     self.last_errors = t.errorCatcher().listErrors()
>>> # 
>>> 
>>> Is there a way to fix it permanently ?
>> 
>> Seems this broke with the newest cobbler.  Reverting back to an older
>> version fixes this.  I emailed cobbler-list:
>> 
>> https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/cobbler/2010-January/005343.html
> 
> Just an FYI, this was fixed in this commit:
> 4f0f5c6c059ff85c6d032766966a52288f59c7e1
> 
> Next spacewalk should work with the newest cobbler.
> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 2) Child repos are not available during kickstarting. If I try to use a child repo, I get an error in the anaconda log about being unable to retrieve the repository metadata. The URL it is trying to use is something like:
>>> https://<server>/rhn/common/DownloadFile.do?url=/ks/dist/child/<child channel>/<parent channel>
>>> 
>>> I double checked the cache, and the repository metadata is there.
>>> If I try and hit that url directly, I get a message saying file download failed
>> 
>> It seems the repos in /var/cache/rhn/repodata/ had not generated
>> properly.  Rob was going to force generate this and see.
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Rob
>>> 
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> 
> 
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