Hi everybody, I'm using cobbler-2.0.1-1 on a RedHat 5.3 clone (Scientific Linux). The problem comes with importing a distro from a loop-mounted dvd-image: bash> mkdir Centos5.4-x86_64/ bash> mount -o loop CentOS-5.4-x86_64.iso Centos5.4-x86_64/ bash> cobbler import --path=Centos5.4-x86_64/ --name=Centos5.4-x86_64 --arch=x86_64 won't work - I have to use the full path - should be easy to fix this bash> cobbler import --path=/localscratch/Isos/Centos5.4-x86_64/ --name=Centos5.4-x86_64 --arch=x86_64 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ask started: 2009-11-11_155754_import task started (id=Media import, time=Wed Nov 11 15:57:54 2009) running: rsync -a '/localscratch/Isos/Centos5.4-x86_64/' /localscratch/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64 --exclude-from=/etc/cobbler/rsync.exclude --progress building file list ... 804 files to consider ./ repodata/ repodata/comps.xml 941644 100% 173.35MB/s 0:00:00 (xfer#1, to-check=7/804) repodata/filelists.xml.gz 3478717 100% 122.87MB/s 0:00:00 (xfer#2, to-check=5/804) repodata/other.xml.gz 10845962 100% 107.74MB/s 0:00:00 (xfer#3, to-check=3/804) repodata/primary.xml.gz 1130874 100% 10.37MB/s 0:00:00 (xfer#4, to-check=1/804) repodata/repomd.xml 1296 100% 12.17kB/s 0:00:00 (xfer#5, to-check=0/804) sent 16426701 bytes received 142 bytes 32853686.00 bytes/sec total size is 644355841 speedup is 39.23 returned: 0 adding distros scanning /localscratch/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64/images/xen for distro signature scanning /localscratch/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64/images for distro signature scanning /localscratch/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64 for distro signature found content (breed=redhat) at /l skipping import, as distro name already exists: images-xen-x86_64 scanning /localscratch/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64/images/pxeboot for distro signature scanning /localscratch/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64/images for distro signature scanning /localscratch/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64 for distro signature found content (breed=redhat) at /l creating new distro: images-x86_64 creating new profile: images-x86_64 associating repos traversing distro images-x86_64 scanning /localscratch/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64/images/pxeboot for distro signature scanning /localscratch/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64/images for distro signature scanning /localscratch/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64 for distro signature found content (breed=redhat) at /l descent into /localscratch/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64 processing repo at : /localscratch/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64 need to process repo/comps: /localscratch/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64 looking for /localscratch/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64/repodata/*comps*.xml running: createrepo -c cache -s sha --groupfile /localscratch/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64/repodata/comps.xml /localscratch/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64 This option is deprecated 635/635 - CentOS/audiofile-0.2.6-5.x86_64.rpm Saving Primary metadata Saving file lists metadata Saving other metadata returned: 0 associating kickstarts scanning /localscratch/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64/images/pxeboot for distro signature scanning /localscratch/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64/images for distro signature scanning /localscratch/cobbler/ks_mirror/Centos5.4-x86_64 for distro signature found content (breed=redhat) at /l *** TASK COMPLETE *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One thing about the output is strange and might be a hint on what's going wrong: skipping import, as distro name already exists: images-xen-x86_64 Although I explicitly give the name (--name=Centos5.4-x86_64) cobbler does not name the distro accordingly: bash> cobbler list distros: images-x86_64 images-xen-x86_64 profiles: images-x86_64 images-xen-x86_64 systems: repos: images: When I then rename the distros and profiles with: bash> cobbler distro rename --name=images-x86_64 --newname=Centos5.4-x86_64 bash> cobbler distro rename --name=images-xen-x86_64 --newname=Centos5.4-xen-x86_64 bash> cobbler profile rename --name=images-x86_64 --newname=Centos5.4-x86_64 bash> cobbler profile rename --name=images-xen-x86_64 --newname=Centos5.4-xen-x86_64 bash> cobbler profile edit --name=Centos5.4-x86_64 --distro=Centos5.4-x86_64 bash> cobbler profile edit --name=Centos5.4-xen-x86_64 --distro=Centos5.4-xen-x86_64 a cobbler list shows: distros: Centos5.4-x86_64 Centos5.4-xen-x86_64 profiles: Centos5.4-x86_64 Centos5.4-xen-x86_64 systems: repos: images: But all the entries in $webdir/links/ are gone. Like this a replication to a second server won't work anymore, because it relies on the entries in that directory. My question - is this a bug or am I doing something wrong. Cheers, Jens