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13 years, 5 months
Cobbler import hangs on rsync
by Whittington, John
I've just set up my first Cobbler instance, and I'm trying to do my first import from a tree on the local filesystem. When I issue this command:
# cobbler import --path /home/ISO/rh5.4_64 --name=RHEL5.4_64 --arch=x86_64
...I get this:
task started: 2010-11-11_155546_import
task started (id=Media import, time=Thu Nov 11 15:55:46 2010)
running: rsync -a '/home/ISO/rh5.4_64/' /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/RHEL5.4_64-x86_64 --exclude-from=/etc/cobbler/rsync.exclude --progress
...but it never moves on to a next step. I can grep through ps output and see the rsync processes running, and check disk space used under the target dir and see it filling up, although the size of the mirror dir never quite matches that of the source. At some point it just seems to stall, though the processes stay alive.
For the record, the filesystem is healthy, lots of disk space; no SELinux errors are thrown; nothing in the Cobbler log or system logs indicates a problem. It is a RHEL4 machine, and I had to go outside of RH repos to get everything I needed to run Cobbler, but the configs seem OK - at any rate 'cobbler check' now only returns with suggestions that I know are not relevant to my setup.
Has anyone seen similar behavior with a fresh Cobbler install? I'm going by the instructions on the wiki page (fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/UsingCobblerImport) and I believe I've done the setup correctly, but can't get past this problem. Any input on how I can troubleshoot this further would be appreciated.
Thanks - John
13 years, 5 months
Cobbler -- "No DHCP or proxyDHCP offers"
by Frank
Hello All:
Someone from this list was so very kind several weeks ago to help me
installing Cobbler 2.003 on a VPS server account. It ha snow stopped
working, and I can;t figure out why so.
When looking at what happens at the server via KVM (I tried this with
several presently unused servers) I see that the server is set up to
look for Cobbler, but can't find it (sorry about my terminology):
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Intel(R) Boot Agent GE v.1.3.31 IBA GE Slot 00C8 v1331 PXE 2.1 Build 086
Copyright (C) 1997-2009, Intel Corporation
CLIENT MAC ADDRESS: 00 27 0E UW 37 CF GUID: 6400C22C A4A0 11DE ...
PXE-E51: No DHCP or proxyDHCP offers were received.
PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel Boot Agent.
Boot Failure
Press any key to continue
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The MAC Address above has been altered ... but I am in Cobbler I sure
entered the correct one, and the correct IP also.
Would it make any difference is the server already has a working OS
installed (which is the case in all servers I tried)?
Is there anyone who could possibly help me with this? I am willing to pay.
Also, would it make any different
Best wishes,
Frank
13 years, 5 months
parent profile vs parent object
by mark
Can someone please explain the difference between a parent profile and the
parent object when doing "create a subprofile"? I recently upgraded to
v2.0.3 The lists for both fields are identical. Oddly though, the "parent
profile" is empty when doing a "create profile". Also, I have read the
comment in the item.py script three times now, but that's not helping much.
Thanks,
mark
13 years, 5 months
Fedora 14 kickstart file syntax change
by Mike McCune
Just a heads up, ran into an issue trying to kickstart a F14 guest:
"Following problem occurred on line XX of the kickstart file: Section
does not end with %%end"
there were some changes to Anaconda in F14 that require the addition of
the %end tag to some of the sections of your kickstart files:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Changes
"%packages, %pre, %post, and %traceback must now end with a %end token."
Mike
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Mike McCune
mmccune AT redhat.com
Red Hat Engineering | Portland, OR
Systems Management | 650.254.4248
13 years, 6 months
koan issue - RHEL 6
by Tom Brown
Hi
In my RHEL 6 testing i note that the rhpl package is not present and
due to this koan gets picky about system detection
# koan -D
- looking for Cobbler at http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/cobbler_api
<type 'exceptions.NameError'>
global name 'CX' is not defined
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/koan/app.py", line 216, in main
k.run()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/koan/app.py", line 318, in run
self.system = self.autodetect_system(allow_interactive=self.live_cd)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/koan/app.py", line 388, in
autodetect_system
raise CX("the rhpl module is required to autodetect a system.
Your OS does not have this, please manually specify --profile or
--system")
# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.0 (Santiago)
Does anyone know if that module is now in another package or if not i
will work around the issue
thanks
13 years, 6 months
Logon Issue with Cobbler using LDAP auth
by Mackell, Thomas O
Just to set the base line.
This is an old installation of cobbler, running cobbler-2.0.5-1.el5 and cobbler-web 2.0.5-1. Running under RHEL 5.5 ppc.
I just turned on the LDAP authentication following the guide on the Wiki
When I tried to test the installation with the demo_connect script, I receive the following:
[root@cobbleradc tmp]# python demo_connect.py --user=tomacke --pass=xXxXxXxX
- trying to login with user=tomacke
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "demo_connect.py", line 37, in ?
token = sp.login(options.user,options.password)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1096, in __call__
return self.__send(self.__name, args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1383, in __request
verbose=self.__verbose
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1147, in request
return self._parse_response(h.getfile(), sock)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1286, in _parse_response
return u.close()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 744, in close
raise Fault(**self._stack[0])
xmlrpclib.Fault: <Fault 1: "ldap.LDAPError:(0, 'Error')">
Any ideas of where to figure out what's wrong?
Thomas Mackell
13 years, 6 months
