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