Hi all: I'm having a similar problem to one that was reported by another subscriber back in June. I don't seem to be able to build anything other than CentOS or RHEL v6 machines. Any attempt to build a RHEL5 or CentOS5 machine results in 'Error downloading kickstart file'. I'll outline the troubleshooting steps that I've taken so far, maybe somebody can suggest something I've missed. The server on which Cobbler is installed is running 64-bit CentOS 6.4 and is fully up to date with patches. Cobbler itself is version 2.4.0-1.el6 installed using the RPMs from the 'epel' repository. There is over 100GBytes of free space in the /var filesystem and the machine routinely runs with about 3GBytes of free system memory from a total of 4GBytes installed, i.e. there doesn't appear to be an issue with resources of any kind on the Cobbler server itself. The server is set up to use the 'base', 'epel' and 'extras' repositories for CentOS. The Cobbler installation was recently updated from 2.2.3-2 via a 'yum update' operation. In the interests of completeness, other relevant package versions are: cobbler-2.4.0-1.el6.noarch cobbler-web-2.4.0-1.el6.noarch Django-1.3.7-1.el6.noarch koan-2.4.0-1.el6.noarch python-2.6.6-37.el6_4.x86_64 python-cheetah-2.4.1-1.el6.x86_64 It's been a long time (first time in 2013, in fact!) since I've been asked to build a RHEL5 machine, so I can't say with any certainty when this problem started happening, but I can say that RHEL5 builds have worked in the past. There are no errors being reported during the kickstart process in /var/log/cobbler or any of the Apache log files. The only message that I am seeing is a Django-related Python deprecation warning: [error] /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/template/loaders/filesystem.py:58: DeprecationWarning: 'django.template.loaders.filesystem.load_template_source' is deprecated; use 'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader' instead. I've checked from another server and a wget to http://<cobbler host name>/cblr/svc/op/ks/system/<system name> generates a properly formed kickstart file, as does the 'view kickstart' button in the web GUI. The wget also works when referencing the Cobbler server by IP address rather than host name. There are no errors being reported by running validateks against the system name in question. All of the CentOS 6 and RHEL 6 profiles work correctly, so I'm confident that there isn't a network problem between my Cobbler server and the machine I'm trying to build. The same machine builds correctly if I re-define it using a CentOS6 profile. More in desperation than anything else, I tried completely removing the RHEL5 profile I was trying to build from and replacing it with a brand new one created from scratch, but this didn't change the behaviour seen during a kickstart operation. Does anybody have any suggestions as to where to look next? -- Regards Phil Edwards | PGP/GnuPG Key Id Brighton, UK | 0xD5D8F53C _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list cobbler(a)lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler