[Spacewalk-list] Multiple issues with kickstarting functionnality

[Pierre Casenove]

Hello,
Thanks for the answer and the help,I've attached the KS to the mail.

2014-10-30 17:18 GMT+01:00 Waldirio Manhães Pinheiro <waldirio at gmail.com>:

> Pierre
>
> Can you share your ks file !?
>
> ______________
> Atenciosamente
> Waldirio
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> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Waldirio Manhães Pinheiro <
> waldirio at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Pierre
>>
>> About client, you can use Firefox or Chrome without problem. I got some
>> problems in IE when showing the highlights of scripts for example.
>>
>> About scripts, you can select in your KS template in TAB Scripts, add new
>> script. Here you will define the content of scripts, at the end you can
>> select if will be executed before or after installation.
>>
>> About your cryptography, you can remove the password line and define
>> again using the webUI.
>>
>> About detect your first hard drive, we have to test !! :-)
>>
>> B'Regards
>>
>> ______________
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>> Waldirio
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>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Pierre Casenove <pcasenove at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> I'm trying to configure spacewalk to kickstart my system.
>>> Currently, we're using only a customized DVD, with ageneric kickstart,
>>> and I'm trying to port this kickstart to spacewalk...
>>> Here are the issue I'm facing:
>>> - What browser should I use??? I've tried IE 10, Firefox 26, latest
>>> chrome, and on each browser I have different issues:
>>> Chrome and firefox: I can't kickstart pre and post script, a rtext box
>>> seems to be missing...
>>> I can upload a kickstart, but then nothing appears when I go to
>>> "Kickstart file" link
>>> IE: the wbe page layout for uploading a kickstarting is all messed up,
>>> but at least, I can view the kickstart file after it has been uploaded...
>>>
>>> - When I manually create a kickstart, I have this problem. In my current
>>> KS, I use "%include" directives, to include pre-scripts. These scripts
>>> configures are mainly used to detect the first hard drive, and calculate
>>> the "bootloader" and "part" kickstart keyword...
>>> In spacewalk UI, I did not finc the way to use include directive, as
>>> well as not using the bootloader directive  (in advanced Options link). As
>>> i told, in my kickstart, the bootloader directive is calculated in my pre
>>> script... so I dont need to use it!
>>>
>>> - So I tried to upload my kickstart... but it also fails!
>>> 1/ I have this error message:
>>> This kickstart profile uses a different type of encryption by default
>>> than the root password is currently using. You must reset the root password
>>> to encrypt it with the new method.
>>> ---> Can i live with this?
>>>
>>> 2/ I have another error:
>>> <class 'Cheetah.Parser.ParseError'>:
>>> Error in the Python code which Cheetah generated for this template:
>>>
>>> ===============================================================================
>>> EOL while scanning string literal
>>> (cheetah_DynamicallyCompiledCheetahTemplate_1414681774_07_98912.py, line
>>> 151)
>>> Line|Python Code
>>> ----|-------------------------------------------------------------
>>> 149 |
>>> 150 |        try:
>>> 151 |            return eval('''VFSL([locals()]+SL+[globals(),
>>> __builtin__],"ls",True) -l /dev/cdrom | awk '{print $NF}'''', globals(),
>>> localsDict)
>>>                               ^
>>> 152 |            return self._CHEETAH__errorCatcher.warn(exc_val=e,
>>> code= u'VFSL([locals()]+SL+[globals(), __builtin__],"ls",True) -l
>>> /dev/cdrom | awk \'{print $NF}\'' , rawCode= u"$(ls -l /dev/cdrom | awk
>>> '{print $NF}')" , lineCol=(259, 7))
>>> 153 |
>>> 154 |    def __errorCatcher14(self, localsDict={}):
>>> Here is the corresponding Cheetah code.
>>> ** I had to guess the line & column numbers, so they are probably
>>> incorrect:
>>> Line 42, column 5
>>>
>>> Line|Cheetah Code
>>> ----|-------------------------------------------------------------
>>> 42  |set $(list-harddrives|grep -v sr)
>>>             ^
>>>
>>>
>>> In my kickstart, I, indeed, have the following line of code: set
>>> $(list-harddrives|grep -v sr), used to detexct the first hardrive...
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for your help
>>>
>>> Pierre
>>>
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