[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk not delivering comps.xml during kickstart

[Michael Guidero]

> Michael Guidero wrote:
> % Hi,
> ...
> % Recently we started deploying a new server type, and last week it
> was time to start deploying the production systems.  We cloned our
> staging kickstart and created an appropriate new activation key and
> set the appropriate channels (the relevant channels already existed
> prior, for a long time now).  When we went to kickstart the system,
> we began seeing "retrying download" for comps.xml (and repomd.xml at
> times).
> %
> % In the log on vt3 of the installing system, we saw "WARNING : Try
> 1/10 for
> http://<sw-proxy-ip>/ks/dist/child/prod-clone-sl-6.2-x86_64-epel/SL-62-x86_64-2012-02-06/repodata/comps.xml
> failed: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum" and then
> progressing through try 10/10.
> %
> % On the proxy we saw in squid access.log "1380214098.913    166
> 127.0.0.1 TCP_MISS/200 4126 GET
> http://<sw-proxy-hostname>/ks/dist/child/prod-clone-sl-6.2-x86_64-epel/SL-62-x86_64-2012-02-06/repodata/comps.xml
> - DIRECT/<sw-proxy-ip> text/html"
> %
> % On the main SW server we saw messages such as "<sw-proxy-ip> - -
> [26/Sep/2013:11:24:32 -0700] "GET
> /ks/dist/child/prod-clone-sl-6.2-x86_64-epel/SL-62-x86_64-2012-02-06/repodata/comps.xml
> HTTP/1.1" 200 3724 "-" "Scientific Linux (anaconda)/6.2"
> %
> % We were not able to reproduce this with the kickstart we cloned
> from.  We verified that we see the same results when kickstarting
> through the proxy and directly through the main Spacewalk server.
> We also tried creating a new kickstart clone and see the same
> thing.
> %
> % When I try to load the URL in the browser through the proxy, I get
> "file download failed."  If I try through the browser and the main
> SW server, I get a pop-up that says "A serve error has occurred"
> However, based on the dissimilar log messages to what we experience
> when it is via kickstart, I am not convinced that this is a proper
> way to check.  Is it?
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Are there any related errors in /var/log/httpd/*error_log on
> spacewalk and/or proxy?
> 

Hi Michael,

Unfortunately there are no related messages in the http *error_log files on either Spacewalk or Proxy.

Michael Guidero