F14 cobbler daemon

Beartooth beartooth at comcast.net
Sun Nov 21 00:01:52 UTC 2010


On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 10:59:15 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:

> On 11/20/2010 10:43 AM, Todd Zullinger wrote:

>> Are you even using cobbler?  It is a provisioning tool, to automate the
>>setup of PXE booting for bare-metal and virt system installs.  If not, 
>> why do you have it installed and enabled?

	The description in PackageKit (which I had to go through in 
unusual detail, because only the LiveCD had succeeded in installing F14) 
made it sound (to me) like a thing to try. 

	Maybe my next move is to ssh in, become root, and command "Yum 
remove cobbler"? That should at least get me to the next stage, right?

>> It also sounds to me like cobbler is not your problem.  If the system
>> boot message show it starting and returning ok, then it's likely
>> something after that which is halting your boot up.
> 
> Exactly.  People tend to blame the last item listed, even though the
> boot messages show that it completed without problems.  What you need to
> do is find out what's the next item on the list, as that's what's
> causing you trouble.

	I'm not knowledgeable enough to blame anything; I'm just 
reporting what I see, and can't cope with, hoping for enlightenment.

	How do you know it completed? That upper case sure looked like an 
urgent warning to me ....

	Also, what is a good way (if there is one, short of removing 
cobbler) to get to the next item??

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.




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