7:53 p.m.
Hey guys,
sorry for the false alarm. The answer seems to be a flaky nas which was housing the web
root directory. To be clear:
nas2:/mnt/store/web /var/www
the nas web root was housing /var/www/ on the local cobbler server under which all of the
cobbler files were housed. I tried rebooting the nas a couple of times before emailing the
list and that didn't actually work. However after I sent the email I tried rebooting
the nas one more time and that's when I blew past the dreaded 4% mark when creating a
new image.
sorry for the inconvenience and I appreciate the help I've gotten from the list on
some of the other issues I've dealt with.
Best!!
tim
----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Dunphy <bluethundr(a)jokefire.com>
To: cobbler mailing list <cobbler(a)lists.fedorahosted.org>
Sent: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 23:36:13 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: cobbler freezes at 4%
Hello list!!
I am having a new issue with cobbler where I am able to kickoff the (virtual) machine
creation process, and the kickstart is found and the install begins. But as the data is
retrieved from the cobbler server (via the url --url=$tree) option in the kickstart it
freezes when it gets to only 4% completion. I tried deleting the distro and re-importing
it and recreating the profiles but the result is the same:
## Cobbler pauses at 4% with the url --url=$tree option in KS
+----------------------+ Dependency Check +-----------------------+
| |
| Checking dependencies in packages selected for installation... |
| |
| 4% |
| |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
## errors in apache logs
[root@VIRTCENT14:~] #tail -f /var/log/httpd/error_log
[Sun Jul 03 21:31:04 2011] [error] [client 192.168.1.48] (70014)End of file found:
mod_mime_magic: read failed from uncompress of
/var/www/cobbler/images/rhel56-xen-i386/vmlinuz
[Sun Jul 03 17:31:17 2011] [error] [client 192.168.1.200] File does not exist:
/var/www/cobbler/links/rhel56-xen-i386/images/updates.img
[Sun Jul 03 21:31:18 2011] [error] [client 192.168.1.200] File does not exist:
/var/www/cobbler/links/rhel56-xen-i386/disc1
[Sun Jul 03 21:31:18 2011] [error] [client 192.168.1.200] File does not exist:
/var/www/cobbler/links/rhel56-xen-i386/images/product.img
[Sun Jul 03 17:31:18 2011] [error] [client 192.168.1.200] File does not exist:
/var/www/cobbler/links/rhel56-xen-i386/disc1
[Sun Jul 03 21:31:26 2011] [error] [client 192.168.1.200] File does not exist:
/var/www/cobbler/links/rhel56-xen-i386/disc1
[Sun Jul 03 17:34:52 2011] [notice] mod_python: (Re)importing module
'cobbler_web.views'
[Sun Jul 03 17:34:53 2011] [notice] mod_python: (Re)importing module
'cobbler_web.views'
[Sun Jul 03 17:34:56 2011] [notice] mod_python: (Re)importing module
'django.core.handlers.modpython'
[Sun Jul 03 17:34:57 2011] [notice] mod_python: (Re)importing module
'django.core.handlers.modpython'
## activity in the access logs
192.168.1.20 - admin [03/Jul/2011:17:34:52 -0400] "GET
/cobbler_web/ksfile/edit//var/lib/cobbler/kickstarts/xen.ks HTTP/1.1" 200 5548
"http://cobbler/cobbler_web/ksfile/list" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686;
en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100423 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.3"
192.168.1.20 - admin [03/Jul/2011:21:34:52 +0000] "GET
/cobbler_web/ksfile/edit//var/lib/cobbler/kickstarts/xen.ks HTTP/1.1" 200 5548
"http://cobbler/cobbler_web/ksfile/list" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686;
en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100423 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.3"
The web root for cobbler is on an NFS share:
nas2.summitnjhome.com:/mnt/store/web
1.4T 302G 944G 25% /var/www
And I have no trouble listing the directories:
[root@VIRTCENT14:~] #ls -l /var/www/cobbler/images/rhel56-i386/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root apache 64 Jul 3 17:21 initrd.img ->
/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/rhel56-i386/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root apache 61 Jul 3 17:21 vmlinuz ->
/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/rhel56-i386/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
[root@VIRTCENT14:~] #ls -l
/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/rhel56-i386/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7705221 Mar 29 19:15
/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/rhel56-i386/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
This is the kickstart I am attempting to use:
# Kickstart file automatically generated by anaconda.
install
#url --url http://mirror.trouble-free.net/centos/5.6/os/x86_64/
url --url=$tree
#nfs --server 192.168.1.251 --dir /mnt/DVD
lang en_US.UTF-8
network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp --nameserver 192.168.1.44,4.2.2.2 --hostname
snjhnew
#network --device eth0 --bootproto static --ip 192.168.1.28 --netmask 255.255.255.0
--gateway 192.168.1.1 --nameserver 192.168.1.44,4.2.2.2 --hostname snjhnew
rootpw --iscrypted $1$cnyk.8aB$ukF7dhqP0CJDHrPmEKNje1
firewall --enabled --port=22:tcp
authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5
selinux --enforcing
timezone America/New_York
bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=xvda --append="console=xvc0"
clearpart --all --initlabel
autopart
# The following is the partition information you requested
# Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed
# here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is
# not guaranteed to work
#clearpart --linux --drives=xvda
#part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 --ondisk=xvda
#part pv.2 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=xvda
#volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.2
#logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol01 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=272 --grow
--maxsize=544
#logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=1024 --grow
$yum_repo_stanza
%packages
@base
@core
@dns-server
@dialup
@editors
@legacy-network-server
@mail-server
@network-server
@news-server
@server-cfg
@text-internet
@web-server
@smb-server
keyutils
puppet
koan
keychain
screen
iscsi-initiator-utils
trousers
fipscheck
device-mapper-multipath
I'd appreciate any advice you might have on how to get past this point.
Thanks!!
Tim
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