Figured out
my problem, which turned out to be two
issues.
The first issue was that the kickstart file had some syntax errors that
did not allow the install to remain non-interactive. Once I correct
those issues the install continued up until my next problem.
I received the following error during the kickstart install (truncated):
"Unable to read packge metadata".
Doing some digging around I found out that the Cobbler import feature
for importing a distributions uses createrepo 0.9.7
with default settings and that as of January 2009 it has implemented
sha256
as the default checksum method for repodata. Apparently yum
and/or anaconda for CentOS 5.x seems to only support sha1 ("sha")
checksums for repodata files so I had to run:
createrepo -s sha -o . -g repodata/comps.xml .
At the top of the tree to fix the issue.
Here is the link to the Cobbler ticket that explains what fixed my
issue:
https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/ticket/463
Hope this info helps anyone having the same issue.
David
On 02/14/2010 10:07 AM, Adurotec wrote:
Totally new to cobbler and I am having an issue with
my
initial installation of version 1.6.6 which is installed on Fedora11
x86_64.
I imported two CentOS 5.4 DVD iso's (i386 & x86_64), and setup a
new box for a pxe install and created a new profile with a custom
kickstart file so I could start my testing of cobbler. The server
boots up and gets the install menu which shows the default installs
that were created when I imported the ISO's plus the custom install I
created. When I select my custom install I see the kernel and initrd
being installed but the install which was supposed to be
non-interactive fails to go non-interactive.
I checked my apache logs and found the following:
-
==> access_log <==
-
10.200.2.122 - - [14/Feb/2010:15:22:34
+0000] "GET /cblr/svc/op/ks/profile/mboxmail-CentOS-5.4-i386 HTTP/1.0"
200 1328 "-" "anaconda/11.1.2.195"
-
10.200.2.73 - -
[14/Feb/2010:15:22:57 +0000] "GET
/cblr/links/CentOS-5.4-i386/images/updates.img HTTP/1.0" 404 319 "-"
"anaconda/11.1.2.195"
-
10.200.2.73 - - [14/Feb/2010:15:22:57
+0000] "GET /cblr/links/CentOS-5.4-i386/disc1/images/updates.img
HTTP/1.0" 404 325 "-" "anaconda/11.1.2.195"
-
10.200.2.73 - - [14/Feb/2010:15:22:57
+0000] "GET /cblr/links/CentOS-5.4-i386/images/product.img HTTP/1.0"
404 319 "-" "anaconda/11.1.2.195"
-
10.200.2.73 - - [14/Feb/2010:15:22:57
+0000] "GET /cblr/links/CentOS-5.4-i386/disc1/images/product.img
HTTP/1.0" 404 325 "-" "anaconda/11.1.2.195"
-
-
==> error_log <==
-
[Sun Feb 14 15:22:57 2010] [error]
[client 10.200.2.73] File does not exist:
/var/www/cobbler/links/CentOS-5.4-i386/images/updates.img
-
[Sun Feb 14 15:22:57 2010] [error] [client
10.200.2.73] File does not exist:
/var/www/cobbler/links/CentOS-5.4-i386/disc1
-
[Sun Feb 14 15:22:57 2010] [error]
[client 10.200.2.73] File does not exist:
/var/www/cobbler/links/CentOS-5.4-i386/images/product.img
-
[Sun Feb 14 15:22:57 2010] [error] [client
10.200.2.73] File does not exist:
/var/www/cobbler/links/CentOS-5.4-i386/disc1
-
-
==> access_log <==
-
10.200.2.73 - - [14/Feb/2010:15:22:57
+0000] "GET /cblr/links/CentOS-5.4-i386/images/stage2.img HTTP/1.0" 200
111767552 "-" "anaconda/11.1.2.195"
-
10.200.2.73 - - [14/Feb/2010:15:23:13
+0000] "GET /cblr/links/CentOS-5.4-i386//disc1/.discinfo HTTP/1.1" 404
317 "-" "urlgrabber/3.1.0"
-
-
==> error_log <==
-
[Sun Feb 14 15:23:13 2010] [error] [client
10.200.2.73] File does not exist:
/var/www/cobbler/links/CentOS-5.4-i386/disc1
This explains why the non-interactive install is failing, but what I
don't understand is, the server is requesting
/cblr/svc/op/ks/profile/mboxmail-CentOS-5.4-i386 (which is the link
found in the install menu for the profile selected) but then the server
requests /cblr/links/CentOS-5.4-i386/images/updates.img (which doesn't
exist) and /cblr/links/CentOS-5.4-i386/disc1/images/updates.img
(which
also
does not exist).
The /var/www/cobbler/links/CentOS-5/4-i386 is a sym link to
/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/CentOS-5.4-i386 which ultimately points to
the CentOS-5.4-i386 ISO that was imported into cobbler.
Is there some configuration change I need
to
make that didn't get set correctly when I did the import?
Thanks in advance.
David
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