<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"> <style></style> </head> <body bgcolor="white" lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"> <div class="WordSection1"> I thought I should send out an update.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I’ve been busy on other tasks & projects, & just came back to this. No updates to Spacewalk, any RPMs, no cobbler configuration changes, etc….. and now the darned thing is working. I don’t get it.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Jeff Kalchik<o:p></o:p> Systems Engineering<o:p></o:p> Land O’Lakes<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"> From: spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of prmarino1@gmail.com Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 8:16 PM To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com; spacewalk-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk, cobbler & syslinux: bootable .iso problems<o:p></o:p> </div> </div> <o:p> </o:p> <div> That sounds like a cobbler bug to me<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> <o:p> </o:p> </div> <div> <o:p> </o:p> </div> <div> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.<o:p></o:p> </div> <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;background:white;border-spacing:0px"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;font-size:initial;text-align:initial"> <div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in" id="_persistentHeader"> <div> From: Kalchik, Jeffery<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 13:49<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> To: <a href="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com">spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a><o:p></o:p> </div> <div> Reply To: <a href="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com">spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a><o:p></o:p> </div> <div> Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk, cobbler & syslinux: bootable .iso problems<o:p></o:p> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <o:p> </o:p> <div id="_originalContent"> Good morning, all.<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> I’ve apparently managed to work myself into a corner….<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> I’ve been running Satellite (for RHEL deployments) and Spacewalk (Oracle Linux 5, Oracle Linux 6 and CentOS6 at the moment,) for a few years. Early on in the initial Satellite deployment, I started down the road of using the underlying cobbler system for significantly more fine grained control over deployments. At this point, I’ve got a fairly well working system that will more or less figure out at runtime what needs to be installed based on physical vs virtual h/w, and cobbler fields. <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Over Thanksgiving, I finally upgraded my Spacewalk server to 2.2 along with all of the underlying packages, and immediately ran into a couple of issues. One is the post-install-network-configuration snippet (fixed,) one of the Python files (also fixed,) and what I’m hoping will end up not being a major problem: using cobbler to build a bootable .iso image for a remote network no longer works.<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> On alt console 3, the last 4 lines displayed are (timestamps & “INFO” removed:)<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> only have one network device: eth0<o:p></o:p> dnsservers is x.y.z.t1,x.y.z.t2<o:p></o:p> doing kickstart… setting it up<o:p></o:p> result of pumpSetupInterface is pumpSetupInterface failed: create route – 1: Operation not permitted.<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> I’m reasonably sure that the cobbler system profile is proper. The profile works for a client server on the same network as the Spacewalk server when PXE booted, yet after building the .iso image, and booting from that, I get the above failure consistently. This has been an issue on every cobbler profile generated since the spacewalk upgrade. I can apparently get it to work on cobbler profiles generated prior to the upgrade and not modified since. I cannot ping the client server, even from the same subnet. It’s not getting far enough to request anything from the Spacewalk server, I’m not seeing anything in /var/log/httpd/access_log. I’ve gone so far as to build a second Spacewalk server on CentOS6 (original is running OEL5,) and am seeing the same behavior. It’s more than a little difficult to collect logs on this, as I don’t have any way to pull from the booting client server.<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> I don’t foresee not using this method going forward. Utilizing cobbler, koan, cheetah, etc. gives me a lot of options during the initial provisioning process. At the moment, I can survive without the .iso boot method, but down the road, I do expect some problems to crop up.<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Has anyone else ran into this? I’m at a loss for where to look next.<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Jeff Kalchik<o:p></o:p> Systems Engineering<o:p></o:p> Land O’Lakes<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Environment (from the test Spacewalk server:)<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> $ rpm -qa | egrep 'spacewalk|cobbler|syslinux' | sort<o:p></o:p> cobbler20-2.0.11-29.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> cobbler2-2.0.11-29.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> cobbler-loaders-1.0.2-2.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-admin-2.2.5-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-backend-2.2.43-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-backend-app-2.2.43-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-backend-applet-2.2.43-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-backend-config-files-2.2.43-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-backend-config-files-common-2.2.43-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-backend-config-files-tool-2.2.43-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-backend-iss-2.2.43-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-backend-iss-export-2.2.43-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-backend-libs-2.2.43-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-backend-package-push-server-2.2.43-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-backend-server-2.2.43-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-backend-sql-2.2.43-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-backend-sql-postgresql-2.2.43-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-backend-tools-2.2.43-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-backend-xml-export-libs-2.2.43-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-backend-xmlrpc-2.2.43-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-base-2.2.33-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-base-minimal-2.2.33-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-base-minimal-config-2.2.33-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-branding-2.2.5-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-certs-tools-2.2.1-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-common-2.2.2-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-config-2.2.2-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-doc-indexes-2.2.2-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-grail-2.2.33-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-html-2.2.33-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-java-2.2.126-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-java-config-2.2.126-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-java-lib-2.2.126-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-java-postgresql-2.2.126-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-jpp-workaround-2.2.3-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-monitoring-2.2.1-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-monitoring-selinux-2.2.1-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-postgresql-2.2.2-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-pxt-2.2.33-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-remote-utils-2.2.2-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-repo-2.2-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-schema-2.2.33-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-search-2.2.8-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-selinux-2.2.1-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-setup-2.2.13-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-setup-jabberd-2.0.1-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-setup-postgresql-2.2.2-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-slf4j-1.6.1-6.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-sniglets-2.2.33-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-taskomatic-2.2.126-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> spacewalk-utils-2.2.25-1.el6.noarch<o:p></o:p> syslinux-4.02-8.el6.x86_64<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> cobbler buildiso run:<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> task started: 2015-01-16_115932_buildiso<o:p></o:p> task started (id=Build Iso, time=Fri Jan 16 11:59:32 2015)<o:p></o:p> using/creating buildisodir: /var/cache/cobbler/buildiso<o:p></o:p> building tree for isolinux<o:p></o:p> copying miscellaneous files<o:p></o:p> copying kernels and initrds for profiles<o:p></o:p> copying kernels and initrds for systems<o:p></o:p> generating a isolinux.cfg<o:p></o:p> generating profile list<o:p></o:p> generating system list<o:p></o:p> - ksdevice bootif set for system ahdoul012<o:p></o:p> done writing config<o:p></o:p> running: mkisofs -o /home/jkalc/generated.iso -r -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -V Cobbler\ Install -R -J -T /var/cache/cobbler/buildiso<o:p></o:p> received on stdout:<o:p></o:p> received on stderr: I: -input-charset not specified, using utf-8 (detected in locale settings)<o:p></o:p> Size of boot image is 4 sectors -> No emulation<o:p></o:p> 67.30% done, estimate finish Fri Jan 16 11:59:33 2015<o:p></o:p> Total translation table size: 4029<o:p></o:p> Total rockridge attributes bytes: 1320<o:p></o:p> Total directory bytes: 4700<o:p></o:p> Path table size(bytes): 40<o:p></o:p> Max brk space used 1a000<o:p></o:p> 7444 extents written (14 MB)<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> ISO build complete<o:p></o:p> You may wish to delete: /var/cache/cobbler/buildiso<o:p></o:p> The output file is: /home/jkalc/generated.iso<o:p></o:p> *** TASK COMPLETE ***<o:p></o:p> This message may contain confidential material from Land O'Lakes, Inc. 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