Re: Fedora 11 preview cobbler-1.6.4-1 sync wont rebuild tftpboot

[Lester M.]

OK, did a lil bit of troubleshooting on this matter. I turned off SELinux (I
do not think this was a factor at all) and I tried the following versions:

cobbler-1.4.3-4.fc11.noarch.rpm
cobbler-1.6.2-1.fc11.noarch.rpm


These test pxeboot tests took place on an IBM Lenovo Thinkpad T60, and all
of the above versions actually worked! I can pxeboot a virtual machine on
Fedora 11 preview.

the following versions did not work: (the same problem exists in these
versions)

cobbler-1.6.3-1.fc11.i586
cobbler-1.6.4-1.fc11.i586


So now I know that with the latest version of cobbler, there is a strange
issue there. When I rebuild my machine with fedora 11 preview, the same
results happen with the latest version of cobbler. Also, I can reproduce
this on an old toshiba tecra M2 laptop.

Where do I go now with my troubleshooting? I really want to use the latest
version of cobbler, on Fedora 11 preview, but obviously no being able to
pxeboot a vm is a big issue.

Where do I go on from here?

Fedora 11 preview cobbler-1.6.4-1 sync wont rebuild tftpboot

[Michael DeHaan]

Lester M. wrote:
>  OK, did a lil bit of troubleshooting on this matter. I turned off 
>  SELinux (I do not think this was a factor at all) and I tried the 
>  following versions:
>
>  cobbler-1.4.3-4.fc11.noarch.
>  rpm
>  cobbler-1.6.2-1.fc11.noarch.rpm
>
>
>  These test pxeboot tests took place on an IBM Lenovo Thinkpad T60, and 
>  all of the above versions actually worked! I can pxeboot a virtual 
>  machine on Fedora 11 preview.
>
>  the following versions did not work: (the same problem exists in these 
>  versions)
>
>  cobbler-1.6.3-1.fc11.i586
>  cobbler-1.6.4-1.fc11.i586
>
>
>  So now I know that with the latest version of cobbler, there is a 
>  strange issue there. When I rebuild my machine with fedora 11 preview, 
>  the same results happen with the latest version of cobbler. Also, I 
>  can reproduce this on an old toshiba tecra M2 laptop.
>
>  Where do I go now with my troubleshooting? I really want to use the 
>  latest version of cobbler, on Fedora 11 preview, but obviously no 
>  being able to pxeboot a vm is a big issue.
>
>  Where do I go on from here?
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I really do not think this is a cobbler problem.   The TFTP management 
component does not change often and is very well tested (if it's broke 
we would most certaintly know about it) -- so most likely what you have 
is a network configuration issue or setup problem of some sort.  These 
things are generally much easier to debug over IRC than a long email 
thread, so I'd suggest you join #cobbler and ask there.

--Michael