Re: [cobbler] install issue
by Jeremy
On 09/17/2014 01:59 PM, nacc wrote:
> Hi Jeremy,
>
> On 2014-09-17 07:16, Jeremy Mordkoff wrote:
>> Cobbler newbie here....apologies in advance if I haven't found all of
>> the online resources and this is a known issue....
>>
>> Running FC20 on the host and as the install image. Everything works
>> fine most of the time. The exception is when I force a netboot and
>> reboot using the cobbler command line, the target hangs about 60% of
>> the time right after scanning the disks. The next step should ne to
>> download the kickstart file, but I don't see the http request on the
>> cobbler server.
>>
>> Are there any tricks to debugging this? The anaconda console just
>> pauses.
>>
>> JLM
>>
>> cobbler system edit --name grunt --netboot=1
>
> Isn't the flag --netboot-enabled?
>
> -Nish
>
Yes it is. And if I force a second reboot using any method at all, it
will work the second time.
It seems to hang after scanning the existing SSD. I think the next step
is to download the kickstart file over http from the cobbler server, but
I don't see any evidence that it even tried.
I can't debug this at all. There's no second virtual terminal on the
console, no ssh.
Thanks,
JLM
9 years, 7 months
updating my install image
by Jeremy Mordkoff
I am using the FC20 install image I downloaded months ago. I also have a mirror that I created months ago. I want to use
In my kickstart file, I am switching yum to use my mirrors. I do the install using the kickstart packages directives and then in %post I am doing a full update. The update takes about as long as the initial install.
Is there a more efficient way?
JLM
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Jeremy Mordkoff
9 years, 7 months
install issue
by Jeremy Mordkoff
Cobbler newbie here....apologies in advance if I haven't found all of the online resources and this is a known issue....
Running FC20 on the host and as the install image. Everything works fine most of the time. The exception is when I force a netboot and reboot using the cobbler command line, the target hangs about 60% of the time right after scanning the disks. The next step should ne to download the kickstart file, but I don't see the http request on the cobbler server.
Are there any tricks to debugging this? The anaconda console just pauses.
JLM
cobbler system edit --name grunt --netboot=1
cobbler sync
cobbler system reboot --name grunt
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Jeremy Mordkoff
9 years, 7 months
tftpd check bug in 2.6.5?
by Greg Chavez
Cloned Cobbler 2.6.5 onto CentOS 6.5, installed as an rpm.
Among the usual cobbler check warnings from a new install, I was getting
this:
1 : Unmanaged tftpd server 'tftpd'
And this was despite having the system tftp-server package installed and
enabled in xinetd. I poked around and found these lines in
python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/action_check.py (72-83):
mode = self.config.api.get_sync().tftpd.what()
self.check_tftpd_dir(status)
if mode == "in_tftpd":
self.check_tftpd_bin(status)
self.check_tftpd_conf(status)
elif mode == "tftpd_py":
self.check_ctftpd_bin(status)
self.check_ctftpd_conf(status)
else :
status.append("Unmanaged tftpd server '%s'" % mode)
Simply changing in_tftpd to tftpd, cleared the check warning. But before I
make a pull request, I wanted to ask if perhaps the issue is not this code
but tftpd.what. I am not a python programmer, so of I can't find/xargs/grep
it out, I likely can't figure out what's going on.
What's the right way to fix this?
Thanks.
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9 years, 7 months
Lost kickstart inheritance from profile?
by Gary Algier
Hello,
Am I missing something or did the <<inherit>> ability disappear from the
kickstart parameter on a system definition?
Our old cobbler server is running 2.0.9. When I define a system, the
kickstart parameter is a text box that defaults to <<inherit>>. I then get
what I want because I choose the profile which defines a kickstart parameter
(along with other interdependent parameters).
Our new server is running 2.6.5. When I define a system, the kickstart
parameter is a pull-down that defaults to default.ks. It does not matter what
profile I choose, it will not override this default. I need to pick the
kickstart parameter on the system definition. If this is the case, why is
there a kickstart parameter on the profile? It is always ignored.
Is there a way to get back the inheritance from the profile?
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9 years, 8 months
Re: [cobbler] Basic startup of cobbler on Ubuntu 14.04
by Paul Michali (pcm)
OK. I did a purge of both cobbler and cobbler-web, and then deleted cobbler conf files and went through /etc/ and /usr/ and deleted anything related to cobbler. I reinstalled cobbler and cobbler-web and now, the conf file points to an area where there actually are cobbler files and I get the login screen on my browser. Yay!
Thanks. Must have been some issue with my attempt to make a downloaded version, after the initial attempt didn’t work. Not sure why cobbler-web didn’t work on the initial install.
In any case, thanks for the help Timo, Greg, and Jorgen!!!
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On Sep 4, 2014, at 8:56 AM, Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton(a)ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 04.09.2014 15:46, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
>> On 04.09.2014 15:05, Paul Michali (pcm) wrote:
>>> Hi Timo,
>>
>>> I’m using a newly created VM with Ubuntu 14.04, which I did
>>> update/upgrade. I just did a “sudo apt-get purge cobbler-web” and
>>> then “sudo apt-get install -f cobbler-web”.
>>
>>> dpkg shows...
>>
>>> ii cobbler 2.4.1-0ubuntu2
>>> all Install server ii cobbler-common
>>> 2.4.1-0ubuntu2 all Cobbler Install server - common files
>>> ii cobbler-web 2.4.1-0ubuntu2
>>> all Cobbler Install server - web interface ii
>>> python-cobbler 2.4.1-0ubuntu2
>>> all Install server - python libraries.
>>
>>> When I ran dpkg -L cobbler-web, it showed that there should be
>>> files in /usr/share/cobbler/web, but when I look at
>>> cobbler_web.conf (for apache2, which was removed and reinstalled,
>>> so I know it isn’t a lingering file), it references
>>> /usr/local/share/cobbler/web/.
>>
>>> This should be the distro version, right? Should I install some
>>> other version? Any idea why there is a mismatch between what is
>>> loaded and what is being referenced?
>>
>> So you have a distro version of the package installed, but the
>> conffile is not. md5sum should be:
>>
>> 60ab948af4f5e1b676c4dbe366fd0a83 /etc/cobbler/cobbler_web.conf
>
> note that cobbler_web.conf is not installed by cobbler-web, so purging
> it won't delete the conf...
>
> --
> t
9 years, 8 months
Basic startup of cobbler on Ubuntu 14.04
by Paul Michali (pcm)
Hi!
I installed cobbler and cobbler-web 2.4.1 via apt-get install on Ubuntu 14.04 server setup I have. With that, I tried “cobbler status” but I get:
cobblerd does not appear to be running/accessible: error(110, 'Connection timed out’)
If I look at the error log, I see this constantly repeating:
Sat Aug 30 11:23:59 2014 - ERROR | [Errno 99] Cannot assign requested address
Sat Aug 30 11:24:01 2014 - INFO | 11 breeds and 46 OS versions read from the signature file
Sat Aug 30 11:24:02 2014 - DEBUG | API handle initialized:
In /etc/cobbler/settings, I tried changing client_use_localhost=1, per a suggestion, but that made no difference.
The cobblerd process is running.
Any suggestions?
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9 years, 8 months