[Spacewalk-list] Kickstart with 0.4

[Mike McCune]

John Hodrien wrote:
> A test box that previously had 0.3 installed on it has been upgraded to 0.4,
> although when I say upgraded, I first tried an upgrade but when this didn't
> look entirely right (kickstart profiles were causing the errors experienced
> below and there was a spurious cobblered non-spacewalked kickstart profile),
> then tried wiping it all out and starting again.
> 
> So /var/satellite was wiped, and I rerean the spacewalk-setup --disconnected,
> clearing the database.
> 
> I can't get to where I was at with 0.3.  I've created a bunch of channels, and
> pushed a load of content in.  That was all fine.
> 
> I've created a kickstart tree with ./make-ks-tree.sh.  Can that now be done
> with the create distribution button within the webui?
> 
> Once that's done, I've created a profile from it, which appears to work.  I
> created two kickstart profiles and then deleted one.
> 
> cobbler list still shows traces of both (TestOne was deleted):
> 
> distro TestOne:1:Spacewalk-Public-Cert
> distro TestOne:xen:1:Spacewalk-Public-Cert
> distro ks-fedora-9-64bit
>     profile Fedora964bit:1:Spacewalk-Public-Cert
> distro ks-fedora-9-64bit:xen
> 
> That's just for info, it's no big deal.
> 
> Modifiying "Enable Spacewalk Remote Commands" in "System Details/Details"
> doesn't stick.  While it initially appears to, reloading that back reverts it
> to unselected.

Looking into this one.

> 
> When I click "Update Kickstart" within "Advanced Options", even without
> changing anything, I get the traceback pasted at the bottom.

This is fixed and I have a set of test RPMs available if you want to try 
it out:

http://mmccune.fedorapeople.org/rpms

If we are happy with the fix we will roll new versions of spacewalk-java 
packages and push them to the repo.

> 
> "System Details/Locale", Timezone is empty so a valid timezone can't be
> selected.
> 

filed:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480708

will be fixed in Spacewalk 0.5.

> Any change to partitioning generates a very similar error, only this time
> it's:
> 
> javax.servlet.ServletException: deleted object would be re-saved by cascade
> (remove deleted object from associations):
> [com.redhat.rhn.domain.kickstart.KickstartCommand#22]
> 
> Any tips?

See above re: test rpm.  fixes it there too.

Mike
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