[et-mgmt-tools] CentOS 4 Cobbler Server Hosting CentOS 5 Repository

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Demetri Mouratis <dmourati at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hmmm my brain thinks it remembers something about that. I have 0.4.11
>> on my EL-5 servers for some reason. Could you try the following rpm to
>> see if it helps?
>>
>> http://smooge.fedorapeople.org/alpha/EL-4/createrepo-0.4.11-1.el4.noarch.rpm
>>
>> and let me know if that fixes the issue?
>
> Hi Stephen,
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Same result here after installing the above createrepo RPM.
>
> "Unable to read group information from repositories.  This
> is a problem with the generation of your install tree."
>
> The dialog box says simply "Reboot."  At the next box, I get:
>
>        | You have specified that the group 'virtualization' should    |
>        | be installed. This group does not exist. Would you like to   |
>        | continue or abort your installation?
>
> If I say continue, the install seems to proceed okay.
>

Ok this sounds more like the kickstart you are using is not pointing
to the correct repo.
If you loaded centos in via a profile.. you should be able to look at it like:

cobbler profile report --name=centos-5.1-server-i386

or some such thing.. the default kickstart is then:

# cobbler profile report --name=rhel-5.1-server-i386
profile         : rhel-5.1-server-i386
distro          : rhel-5.1-server-i386
kickstart       : /var/lib/cobbler/kickstarts/rhel5/rhel5-hardware-default.cfg
kernel options  : {}
ks metadata     : {}
virt file size  : 32
virt ram        : 512
virt type       : auto
virt path       :
virt bridge     : xenbr0
virt cpus       : 1
repos           : []
dhcp tag        : default
server          : <<inherit>>

# cobbler system report --name=bakeneko_smoogespace_com
system           : bakeneko_smoogespace_com
profile          : rhel-5.1-server-i386
kernel options   : {}
ks metadata      : {}
netboot enabled? : True
kickstart        : /var/lib/cobbler/kickstarts/rhel5/rhel5-hardware-xendom0.cfg
virt type        : <<inherit>>
virt path        : <<inherit>>
server           : <<inherit>>
interface        : intf0
  mac address    : 00:19:B9:BB:8F:9E
  ip address     : 192.168.2.1
  hostname       : bakeneko.smoogespace.com
  gateway        : 192.168.2.255
  subnet         : 255.255.255.0
  virt bridge    :
  dhcp tag       : net2

Here I am using kickstarts that have rhel5 items in them. My guess is
that you might be trying one with CentOS which is looking for other
names.

> At boot time, however, the system hangs at Mounting Other Filesystems.
>

Thats usually a network issue where its trying to get IPs that don't exist.


> I suspect that the initial install was not clean and so I am chasing
> that down before moving on to the hung CentOS 5 boot.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -D
>
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