[Spacewalk-list] centos-6 + spacewalk-postgresql: problem with cobbler setup

[visinix the great]

Thanks, I'll try that out and check back in.

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I suspect the problem might be the forced upgrade by the EPEL package
> maintainer for cobbler from 2.0 to 2.2.
> Try downgrading it I beleaive (although I'm not sure) the last 2.0 version
> is still in the EPEL repo.
> The upgrade after the initial install hasn't caused me any serious issues
> that I've noticed on my test box other that a minor configuration issue I
> figured out in second thanks to the diff command, however I haven't had
> time to properly test it yet.
> On Apr 27, 2012 4:10 PM, "Charlie Reddington" <linuxsysad007 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I'm working on setting up a spacewalk server. Its running on a CentOS 6
>> x86_64 install. I'm following the guide found here ->
>> http://www.hitechsavvy.com/?p=259. I have also tried this one ->
>> http://computerglitch.net/bin/texts/CentOS6_Spacewalk_Server.php.
>>
>> I skip the part with Selinux, as I use disabled or permissive, and I'm
>> still working on testing this entire thing.
>>
>> From what I can tell, the entire install works fine. I don't get any
>> errors until I run spacewalk-setup. I get through the db setup part, it
>> populates, I get through the SSL setup part fine too. But when it tries to
>> config cobbler, I get the following errors.
>>
>> ** SSL: Generating CA certificate.
>> ** SSL: Deploying CA certificate.
>> ** SSL: Generating server certificate.
>> ** SSL: Storing SSL certificates.
>> * Deploying configuration files.
>> * Update configuration in database.
>> * Setting up Cobbler..
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/usr/bin/cobbler-setup", line 95, in <module>
>>     main()
>>   File "/usr/bin/cobbler-setup", line 73, in main
>>     answers = dict(loadFile(DEFAULTS))
>> TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable
>> * Restarting services.
>>
>> I can get into spacewalk, and for the most part, everything seems
>> working. I can add repos, it syncs them, I can add a client to the system,
>> etc.
>>
>> I started digging into the errors and I found the following.
>>
>> > spacewalk-setup calls cobbler-setup. In cobbler setup, it is expecting
>> to have this path and file in place /usr/share/cobbler/installer_templates
>> and the file 'defaults'. None of these where created on the cobbler install
>> via EPEL. I have tried creating those files and directories as empty, but
>> it obviously expects some data in there.
>>
>> Software installed...
>>
>> http://txtdump.org/8E11oXF1
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>>
>>
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