Re: Failure during import

Thanks for the responses. I'm not sure where the fault lies, but in any event, the cobblerd process shouldn't silently stop. I worked around it by manually adding the distro and profile as mentioned below, and manually copying the contents of the CD over. -Pete On 09/23/2010 11:11 AM, marek.dohojda(a)thomsonreuters.com wrote: > Are you sure this is a cobbler issue and not a VM issue? (such as NFS or > whatever you are using for a path). > > Secondly you can do this: >   Cobbler import --path=/mnt --available-as=http(or nfs)://some-url > --name=CentOS55 > > Personally I preferred this method: >       Cobbler distro add --name=<name>  --available-as=http://<myurl> > --initrd=</location of the initrd>  --kernel=<location of kernel> > --arch=<arch> > > The reason I prefer the second method is because it doesn't copy any > files, rather allows me to setup my own tree as I wish and simply make > cobbler aware of it. > > > > Marek Dohojda > 720-308-8622 > > 77 68 6f 20 69 73 20 4a 6f 68 6e 20 47 61 6c 74 3f 0d 0a > > > -----Original Message----- > From: cobbler-bounces(a)lists.fedorahosted.org > [mailto:cobbler-bounces@lists.fedorahosted.org] On Behalf Of Peter Loron > Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 12:02 PM > To: cobbler(a)lists.fedorahosted.org > Subject: Failure during import > > Hello, all. I have a Cobbler 2.003 install on CentOS 5.5 x86_64 in a VM > (VirtualBox) that I am trying to get to import a distro. I have the > CentOS 5.5 DVD mounted, and I issue this command: > > cobbler import --name=CentOS55 --path=/mnt > > The import goes fine until it hangs forever (or at least overnight) on > the "createrepo" step. The cobblerd service also shut down at this > point. The disto appears to be imported in the web ui, and I can select > it and start the PXE booted install, but it shortly stops with the > Kickstart error "Unknown Url method $tree". > > Any pointers for fixing whatever is broken here? > > Thanks! > > -Pete > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list cobbler(a)lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler