[Spacewalk-list] Errors creating kickstart profiles on 0.4

[Eifrém Strinnholm Jonas]

Mike McCune Wrote:
> Luis Garcia wrote:
> > 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
> >> --
> >> Mike McCune
> >> mmccune AT redhat.com
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> >>
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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
> 
> Ok thanks, can you try again creating a Distribution with the GUI.
> The
> page you referenced is for older versions of Spacewalk, the new process
> is here:
> 
> https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToKickstartCobbler
> 
> try going through that process and see if after creating a Distribution
> in Spacewalk's GUI if you can create a Kickstart Profile from there.
> 
> Mike
> --
> Mike McCune
> mmccune AT redhat.com
> Engineering               | Portland, OR
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I had exactly the same symptoms when I used make-ks-tree. First after I
created a distro through the web GUI, could I use the distro created by
make-ks-tree.

Best Regards,
	Jonas Eifrém Strinnholm
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