[Spacewalk-list] Errors creating kickstart profiles on 0.4

Luis Garcia luis.garciavega at gmail.com
Tue Mar 3 23:09:16 UTC 2009


On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Mike McCune <mmccune at redhat.com> wrote:
> Luis Garcia wrote:
>>
>> Hi List,
>>
>> I'm trying to set up kick start trees on spacewalk 0.4 on a CentOS 5.2
>> server  and  I'm following the document here:
>>
>> https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/KickstartDistro
>>
>>
>> Everything goes smoothly,  I can upload the kickstart tree and commit
>> it to the database.
>> When I get to 7d, to the page that says  "Step 1: Create Kickstart
>> Profile" I can fill in
>> the Kickstart Profile Label,  the Base Channel, and the Kickstartable
>> Tree that I checked in shows up.
>>
>> The problem is that no matter what type of Virtualization type I pick,
>> when hit the next button,
>> I get red text that reads:
>>
>>  * Para-Virtualization is unsupported with the selected kickstart
>> tree or distribution.
>>
>>
>> Which is odd, since I see the /VT folder in the kickstart directory.
>> Is there something in cobbler that I need to configure?
>>
>
> This is an ugly bug in 0.4 that is affecting Spacewalk's ability to
> synchronize with Cobbler.  The error message is somewhat misleading.
>
> Can you do the following and reply to the list:
>
> 1) From your spacewalk server's terminal:
>
> # cobbler distro report
>
> copy-paste the above to http://pastebin.com/  and send us the URL
>
> 2) From your spacewalk server's terminal do:
>
> # sqlplus spacewalk/spacewalk at xe
> SQL> select label, base_path, NVL(cobbler_Id, 'NULL'), NVL(cobbler_xen_id,
> 'NULL') from rhnKickstartableTree;
>
> take the results of that and also copy to a http://pastebin.com/
>
> Mike
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Ok, here are the results:

cobbler distro report: http://pastebin.com/m3e22b5da
sqlplus spacewalk/spacewalk at xe results:  http://pastebin.com/m6f49bcfc

Thanks,
~Luis




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