cobbler May 2010

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disabling second nic and HP firmware cd...
by Corey Kovacs 05 Jan '11

05 Jan '11

Folks, Is there a built in 'correct' way to ensure that my second nics are not configured during build and left alone when using the network config snippets delivered with cobbler? RIght now, when the nodes finish building, the undefined second nic tries to dhcp even though I've not given it a config. I am getting around this by making the appropriate changes to ifcfg-eth1 via two 'sed' lines but if there is a 'better' way I'd rather do that than rely on a post config. Also, are people using the livecd boot method for booting HP firmware disks? How about the SSTK? Thanks Corey

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cobbler with no local mirroring?
by Matthew Miller 09 Jul '10

09 Jul '10

I know, installation server with batteries included... but we've got this connection to the power grid already up and running and would like to use that but still use cobbler. :) Basically, we've got a mirror server already. It has plenty of resources, and it's set up to automatically sync and so on. I'd therefore like to avoid duplicating effort (and wasting disk space) in cobbler, and point entirely at that remote mirror. The "Non-Import (Manual) Workflow" with --mirror-locally=N seems to get us part way there, but we still need to do things like "distro add" pointing to local kernel/initrd files This can't be that uncommon of a use case, can it? I must be missing something. Is there a secret way to distro add (or better yet "cobbler import") with the equivalent of --mirror-locally=N? Thanks! (Oh, related question: if one is doing --mirror-locally=N, does cobbler reposync do anything?) -- Matthew Miller mattdm(a)mattdm.org <http://mattdm.org/>

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Missing xxxx-primary.sqlite.bz2
by Baptiste AGASSE 16 Jun '10

16 Jun '10

Hi all, I use cobbler to mirror EPEL repo for some packages I have created the repo in cobbler with rpm-list option : --rpm-list="cobbler chkrootkit func python-simplejson certmaster nagios* nrpe* php* perl-* mod_* pam_* debmirror*" This sync package as i want but not download/generate the xxxx-primary.sqlite.bz2 for the mirrored repo, and when i want to query this repo, I get an error from yum : # yum install debmirror Loaded plugins: allowdowngrade, fastestmirror, priorities, security Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile http://cobbler.exemple.com/cobbler/repo_mirror/CentOS-5-epel-x86_64/repodat…: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found Trying other mirror. Error: failure: repodata/40512a231767c5c4efe65d9dd267793d58a8c4ab-primary.sqlite.bz2 from epel: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. cobbler version (from EPEL repo for EL5): Cobbler 2.0.3.1 source: ?, ? build time: Mon Mar 1 20:08:11 2010 Anyone have the same problem ? Regards.

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Ticket #132
by Ronald J. Yacketta 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

While setting up a new cobbler server this afternoon I found myself wondering why default_virt_path and others were not in settings. Went back to trac to see the status of the ticket I created eons ago to find it is a RFE that was last updated '1 year ago' Any chance of dusting this off and seeing if it is still worthwhile to put into a near future release of cobbler? Regards, Ron

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Man page missing in latest Cobbler release (2.0.4-1.el5)
by Paul Maunders 30 May '10

30 May '10

Hi again, We are using the latest version of cobbler from the EPEL testing repository, and it seems the man page for Cobbler is missing from this version. man cobbler gunzip: /usr/share/man/man1/cobbler.1.gz: unexpected end of file fgets: No such file or directory Error reading man page /usr/share/man/man1/cobbler.1.gz No manual entry for cobbler We've looked in the source tarball here: http://people.fedoraproject.org/~shenson/cobbler/cobbler-2.0.4.tar.gz and the man page (cobbler-2.0.4/docs/cobbler.1.gz) is 0 bytes. We've manually installed an older man page for now, but I thought I should report the issue to the list so it can be fixed in a future release. Regards, Paul Maunders Fubra Limited

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rpm-list
by Markus Falb 28 May '10

28 May '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Some time ago I encountered some problems with the --rpm-list option for the cobbler repo command. As I understood, the --rpm-list option do not work with foreign architectures, e.g. if cobbler server is i386 one cannot make a repo for x86_64. https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/cobbler/2009-June/004566.html The related ticket was closed without a explanation why: https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/ticket/153 I stumbled over this issue again and it seems to me its even worse. The repo for the same arch does not work too. repo with same arch as cobbler server and rpm-list specified: reposync works but yum complains: Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from reponame: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. I also tried with --mirror-locally turned off, no difference. What are the use cases for the --rpm-list feature then ? Anyone using this ? As far as I can see it only produces a partial mirror that is not usable by yum after mirroring, and thats the best case. In the worse case it is not even capable to create the mirror. - -- best regards, markus -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkv5Y6sACgkQYoWFBIJE9eUlMACeK2E3cAheeJg5+VoojCQPlx2d G2kAoIHpcBUDvJqYSwyqf+1aEMCSek/w =da9L -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Koan Problems...
by Anthony Davis 27 May '10

27 May '10

Hi, I am trying to use koan to create kvm virtual machines on a kvm host, but have been having a problem. For the most part koan does everything perfectly. The problem arises when i need to use the virtio-net and virtio-blk drivers for network and disk. My question is, is there anyway that this can be amended in koan so that these are the default settings? I hope someone can help. Kind Regards Tony

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Koan "--quiet" flag?
by lists＠truthisfreedom.org.uk 27 May '10

27 May '10

Hi all, I'm currently building a few scripts that will allow me to integrate cobbler/koan into my puppet manifest CI testing. The script is in ruby and execs koan, however koan generates a load of "noise" on output. This output is v. useful when I'm running it form the commandline, however when the CI engine detects the script has output, it chucks the whole output into the "status" window. Is there a way of getting koan to run and not return and output? Thanks, Matt

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probleme importing fedora13
by Eric Doutreleau 25 May '10

25 May '10

i m trying to import fedora 13 on my cobbler server it runs the 2.0.3 version on a centos5 machine when i run cobbler reposync --only=f13-i386-Everything-download task started: 2010-05-25_180657_reposync task started (id=Reposync, time=Tue May 25 18:06:57 2010) hello, reposync run, reposync, run! --rpm-list is not supported for rsync'd repositories running: rsync -rltDv --delete --exclude-from=/etc/cobbler/rsync.exclude rsync://mirrors.ircam.fr/fedora-linux/releases/13/Everything/i386/os/ /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/f13-i386-Everything-download receiving file list ... done sent 253 bytes received 805567 bytes 179071.11 bytes/sec total size is 19576790747 speedup is 24294.25 returned: 0 running: /usr/bin/rpmquery --queryformat=%{VERSION} createrepo received: 0.4.11 Exception occured: cobbler.cexceptions.CX Exception value: 'this repo has presto metadata; you must upgrade createrepo to >= 0.9.7 first and then need to resync the repo through cobbler.' Exception Info: File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/utils.py", line 122, in die raise CX(msg) Exception occured: cobbler.cexceptions.CX Exception value: 'this repo has presto metadata; you must upgrade createrepo to >= 0.9.7 first and then need to resync the repo through cobbler.' Exception Info: File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/action_reposync.py", line 119, in run self.sync(repo) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/action_reposync.py", line 154, in sync return self.rsync_sync(repo) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/action_reposync.py", line 229, in rsync_sync os.path.walk(dest_path, self.createrepo_walker, repo) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/posixpath.py", line 290, in walk func(arg, top, names) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/action_reposync.py", line 185, in createrepo_walker utils.die(self.logger,"this repo has presto metadata; you must upgrade createrepo to >= 0.9.7 first and then need to resync the repo through cobbler.") File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/utils.py", line 130, in die raise CX(msg) reposync failed, tries left: 0 reposync failed, retry limit reached, skipping running: chown -R root:apache /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/f13-i386-Everything-download returned: 0 running: chmod -R 755 /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/f13-i386-Everything-download returned: 0 Exception occured: cobbler.cexceptions.CX Exception value: 'overall reposync failed, at least one repo failed to synchronize' Exception Info: File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/utils.py", line 122, in die raise CX(msg) Exception occured: cobbler.cexceptions.CX Exception value: 'overall reposync failed, at least one repo failed to synchronize' Exception Info: File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/remote.py", line 95, in run rc = self._run(self) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/remote.py", line 239, in runner 3), name=name, nofail=True, logger=self.logger) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 635, in reposync return reposync.run(name) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/action_reposync.py", line 135, in run utils.die(self.logger,"overall reposync failed, at least one repo failed to synchronize") File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/utils.py", line 130, in die raise CX(msg) !!! TASK FAILED !!! there s no createrepo version 0.9.7 for centos 5.x. how can i solve this issue? should i upgrave my cobbler version?

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Issues with XMLRPC interface
by lists＠truthisfreedom.org.uk 25 May '10

25 May '10

Hi all, I'm trying to retrieve the data as it is presented to KOAN using python following the documentation at https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/CobblerXmlrpc however I keep running into the following error: =========================== >>> print server.get_system_as_rendered("tmp") Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1199, in __call__ return self.__send(self.__name, args) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1489, in __request verbose=self.__verbose File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1253, in request return self._parse_response(h.getfile(), sock) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1392, in _parse_response return u.close() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 838, in close raise Fault(**self._stack[0]) xmlrpclib.Fault: <Fault 1: "<type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>:CobblerXMLRPCInterface instance has no attribute 'lower'"> ========================== Is this a bug that I need to file with someone, or am I doing something wrong? Ubuntu Lucid Python 2.6 Cobbler cloned from git.fedorahosted Kind regards, Matt

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