[Spacewalk-list] Errors creating kickstart profiles on 0.4

[Luis Garcia]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Mike McCune <mmccune at redhat.com> 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
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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
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I was still having problems using the second set of instructions, so I
re-installed cobbler
(made backups of the config /etc/cobbler dir, rpm -e --nodeps cobbler;
yum install cobbler, )
and ran spacewalk-setup. That seemed to clear up the issue.

I had cobbler running on this box before I put spacewalk on it. Maybe
that had something to do with it.

Thanks for the help!
~Luis