[Spacewalk-list] Errors creating kickstart profiles on 0.4

[Michael DeHaan]

Luis Garcia wrote:
> 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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>>>> Mike McCune
>>>> mmccune AT redhat.com
>>>> Engineering               | Portland, OR
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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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>> Mike McCune
>> mmccune AT redhat.com
>> Engineering               | Portland, OR
>> RHN Satellite             | 650.567.9039x79248
>>
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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
>
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Hmm... I'm not too familiar with the Spacewalk side code of things, but 
in general an existing install should have the content imported 
automatigcally from what objects are already in cobbler.   What kind of 
problems were you seeing?   If you have seen any 
tracebacks/stacktraces/errors/exceptions (such as in the logs on either 
Cobbler or Spacewalk), let us know what they are if you still have them.

--Michael