yum upgrade to 1.2.6-1.el5
by Harry Hoffman
Just upgraded to the latest cobbler from epel-testing... the
post-install script fails :-(
Updating : cobbler ####################### [ 5/10]
profile CentOS-5.2-x86_64 not found, inheritance not possible
Stopping cobbler daemon: [ OK ]
Starting cobbler daemon: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/cobblerd", line 32, in ?
api = bootapi.BootAPI()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 90, in
__init__
self.deserialize()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 448, in
deserialize
return self._config.deserialize()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/config.py", line 186,
in deserialize
serializer.deserialize(self._profiles)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/serializer.py", line
125, in deserialize
rc = storage_module.deserialize(obj,topological)
File
"/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/modules/serializer_yaml.py",
line 136, in deserialize
obj.from_datastruct(datastruct)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/collection.py", line
144, in from_datastruct
item = self.factory_produce(self.config,seed_data)
File
"/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/collection_profiles.py", line
41, in factory_produce
return profile.Profile(config).from_datastruct(seed_data)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/item_profile.py", line
87, in from_datastruct
self.set_parent(self.parent)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/item_profile.py", line
131, in set_parent
raise CX(_("profile %s not found, inheritance not possible") %
parent_name)
cobbler.cexceptions.CX: 'profile CentOS-5.2-x86_64 not found,
inheritance not possible'
[FAILED]
error: %post(cobbler-1.2.6-1.el5.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Harry
14 years, 8 months
$tree in kickstart
by Tom Brown
Is this now depricated in 1.6 ??
+------+ Kickstart Error
+-------+
|
|
| Unknown Url method $tree
|
|
|
| +----+
|
| | OK |
|
| +----+
|
|
|
|
|
+--------------------------------+
and the template looks like
# Use network installation
url --url=$tree
thanks
14 years, 11 months
Ideas for automating desktop installs?
by Gino LV. Ledesma
Hi, all
I'm curious to know what other users have done for automating desktop
installs. I've been reading the wiki and got a number of ideas using
snippets. What I'm trying to do is do "self-installs", where a user
can provision his or her own desktop with customizations for that
user. It would be something like:
1. User PXE boots machine
2. User selects a profile
3. ???
4. Machine gets provisioned according to profile
5. Machine is ready for use with user's custom settings
The constraint here is that I'd like to move away from creating system
profiles prior to the install (which would normally require getting
the MAC address and registering it with cobbler). What I'd like to
tell cobbler (step 3) is that I'm provisioning this machine for a
specific user -- perhaps by passing something onto the kernel command
line as a parameter, and then having the post-install section do the
customization based on that. For example, I could pass in
username=$username and then a script/trigger could fire off and lookup
a DB for that user, and then create the
accounts/profiles/apps/configs/etc automatically.
I'm constrained to working with Windows managing DHCP, so I'm trying
to pass the hostname onto the kickstart parameters somehow so I can
get it register itself and update DDNS. As you can tell from the
above, we're trying to reuse a single "generic" profile (which is my
baseline) and simply customizing the install for a specific user (i.e.
by adding that user's account) without creating.
So my questions are:
1. Is supplying this last information via kernel command line the best option?
2. Can we somehow get a ksmeta variable set at profile-selection time
outside of cobbler (e.g. in the boot selection menu)? (I doubt it)
3. Short of implementing integration with LDAP/Kerberos/Active
Directory for authentication and using roaming user directories, are
there any recommendations for "user provisioning" via cobbler? My last
recourse is to have the account provisioning be done as a first-boot
option.
- gino
14 years, 11 months
Templating error on per_profile template
by Alex Davies
Hi,
I've just built a new cobbler machine this evening and have a problem
with snippets that is probably very obvious but I can't work out.
If I create a completly blank per_profile snippet, suddenly cheetah
throws a wobbly. The relevant line in the .ks file is
$SNIPPET('partition')
With this line commented, all works well. With this line in the file
however as soon as I create the correct file in the per_profile
directory it all falls apart:
[root@cobbler ~]# cobbler system getks --name=test
# Works fine
[root@cobbler partition]# pwd
/var/lib/cobbler/snippets/per_profile/partition
[root@cobbler partition]# touch centos5-xen-x86_64
[root@cobbler ~]# cobbler system getks --name=test
# *** ERROR ***
#
# There is a templating error preventing this file from rendering correctly.
#
# This is most likely not due to a bug in Cobbler and is something you can fix.
#
# Look at the message below to see what things are causing problems.
#
# (1) Does the template file reference a $variable that is not defined?
# (2) is there a formatting error in a Cheetah directive?
# (3) Should dollar signs ($) be escaped that are not being escaped?
#
# Try fixing the problem and then investigate to see if this message goes
# away or changes.
#
#
# module.__init__() argument 1 must be string, not unicode
# File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/templar.py", line
115, in render
# data_out = str(t)
#
# File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/Cheetah/Template.py",
line 982, in __str__
# def __str__(self): return getattr(self, mainMethName)()
#
# File "cheetah_DynamicallyCompiledCheetahTemplate_1241128756_44_46288.py",
line 146, in respond
#
# File "cheetah_DynamicallyCompiledCheetahTemplate_1241128756_44_46288.py",
line 92, in __errorCatcher4
#
# File "<string>", line 0, in ?
#
# File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/template_api.py",
line 156, in SNIPPET
# result = BuiltinTemplate.SNIPPET(self, file)
#
# File "DynamicallyCompiledCheetahTemplate.py", line 89, in SNIPPET
#
# File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/Cheetah/Template.py",
line 1512, in _handleCheetahInclude
# nestedTemplateClass = compiler.compile(source=source,file=file)
#
# File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/template_api.py",
line 124, in compile
# return Cheetah.Template.Template.compile(*args, **kwargs)
#
# File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/Cheetah/Template.py",
line 754, in compile
# mod = new.module(uniqueModuleName)
#
I'm running cobbler 1.6.3 on CentOS 5.3 (epel testing RPM).
I know that the output tells me that this probably isnt a bug and
almost certainly me being thick, I would love someone to point me in
the right direction!
Many thanks,
Alex
14 years, 12 months
Monitoring cobbler
by Jim Wildman
What/how are people monitoring their cobbler servers? particularly if
you have several.
ie, our management is very interested in how long installs take, how
many there are, who is doing them, etc. A lot of that could be gleaned
from a combination of messages, cobblerd.log and the kicklogs.
Anybody have a solution then can share?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE jim(a)rossberry.com http://www.rossberry.com
"Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best
state, is a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."
Thomas Paine
14 years, 12 months
ideas for configuring network wanted
by Christian Horn
Hi all,
looking for idea/ways to do things.
a) setting network-modes
We run some network interfaces in 100full-mode and some in 1gbit mode.
Wondering how to set this up best. The mode is unknown at the time
'cobbler system add' is done, so i do not wand to use ksopts handing
over vars to a snippet configuring the mode.
My idea for now is using ethtool to ask for interfaces current speed.
If its 1gbit do nothing, if its autonegotiated to 100-half or 100-full i
echo 'ETHTOOL_OPTS="speed 100 duplex full autoneg off"' \
>>/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth$number
to set the mode since if its 100 we run 100full by default.
Any more cobblerish way for this yet?
b) Finding out networks.
Usually admins deploying a new server have a list by hand containing this:
- new servers hostname: xyz
- one interface, ip 10.0.0.2 /24 gw .1
- one interface, ip 11.0.0.2 /16
- one interface, ip 12.0.0.3 /24
Network-people plug cables into the server, and we try to get out pxe-
interface onto first rj45-plug on the motherboard.
The mac has to be read from the remote service board.
I would like to have heuristics for finding out on what other interfaces
the other networks are plugged in. Unfortunatelly not all of these have
gateways, otherwise i could have taken interfaces up, tried to ping the
gateway, and in case of success configure the network.
How are others handling this?
Christian
14 years, 12 months
Re: standalone
by Joe G
James,
Still no joy.
The rpm's I'm looking for are in the Workstation directory.
The DVD came from RedHat.
One thing I noticed, I don't know if it will help, but:
I removed the -quiet from the mkisofs line, I copied and pasted the line, and it gave me:
Using BOGL_000.RPM;1 for /tmp/buildiso/Client/bogl-0.1.18-11.2.1.el5.1.x86_64.rpm (bogl-0.1.18-11.2.1.el5.1.i386.rpm)
Using FONTS004.RPM;1 for /tmp/buildiso/Client/fonts-KOI8-R-1.0-9.1.1.noarch.rpm (fonts-KOI8-R-100dpi-1.0-9.1.1.noarch.rpm)
Using MESA_006.RPM;1 for /tmp/buildiso/Client/mesa-libGLU-6.5.1-7.7.el5.x86_64.rpm (mesa-libGL-6.5.1-7.7.el5.x86_64.rpm)
Size of boot image is 4 sectors -> No emulation
0.23% done, estimate finish Tue Apr 28 19:52:51 2009
0.46% done, estimate finish Tue Apr 28 19:49:15 2009
0.69% done, estimate finish Tue Apr 28 19:50:28 2009
0.92% done, estimate finish Tue Apr 28 19:49:15
all the way to 100.00%
but the the top half, only went in to the Client directory.
I don't know if it helps, but it's worth a shot.
Joe
--- On Mon, 4/27/09, James Cammarata <jimi(a)sngx.net> wrote:
> From: James Cammarata <jimi(a)sngx.net>
> Subject: Re: standalone
> To: "Joe G" <jophey(a)yahoo.com>
> Cc: "cobbler mailing list" <cobbler(a)lists.fedorahosted.org>
> Date: Monday, April 27, 2009, 11:16 PM
>
> On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:19:10 -0700 (PDT), Joe G <jophey(a)yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > James,
> >
> > Thanks for the reply.
> >
> > The command I use to make the iso is"cobbler buildiso
> > --distro=RH5.3client-x86_64 --standalone"
> >
> > I tried it with --source/path to iso with the same
> result.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Joe
>
> Try specifying the --tempdir as well, and after the build
> is done look at
> the contents of that directory. Also make sure that
> you're using an
> official release ISO and not a custom made one. I
> know we've had issues
> with people using custom rolled CD's before.
>
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14 years, 12 months
Cobbler survey -- you still have a week!
by Michael DeHaan
So far about 20 incredibly awesome folks have responded. That means
there are 300 or so more of you on the list that have still need to do so :)
https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/cobbler/2009-April/003884.html
This helps us understand what features are being used the most, what
kind of environments we are managing, and what features are most wanted
... so your response is greatly
appreciated.
If this is the only contribution you make to Cobbler this year, this
would be a good one.
(Our phone operators are standing by, call in the next 30 minutes and
get the complete source code!, now back to regularly scheduled programming)
--Michael
14 years, 12 months
inherit option
by Pieter Thoma
Hi,
I was wondering if it is possible to set the inherit option in a profile or
system?
# cobbler profile edit --name=CentOS-5.2-i386 --kickstart="<<inherit>>"
doesnt work.
Regards,
Pieter
15 years
