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

[Paul Robert Marino]

Your welcome
Please createa bug ticket explainin the issue you had and the workaround.
I'm fairly sure the developers are aware of the issue but asthey say the
squeaky wheel get the oil.
On Apr 30, 2012 10:34 AM, "Charlie Reddington" <linuxsysad007 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Success. Had to find the rpm from other means, but cobbler 2.0 works.
>
> Thanks!
>
> 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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