[Spacewalk-list] CentOS 6 provisioning problem: can't retrieve repomd.xml

[Rick van der Linde]

I am trying to load systems using Spacewalk 1.5 & Cobbler. I have configured Spacewalk (and Cobbler, DHCP, TFTP, etc) with my software channels, and created a Kickstart profile & distribution. The kickstart process starts off great, loads the PXE image, runs anaconda, and then fails when it can't find repomd.xml in the Base repo. The exact error is:

"Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: anaconda-CentOS-201112060039.x86_64. Please verify its path and try again"

On the console, it seems to be attempting to fetch:

Failed to get http://10.20.3.98/ks/dist/CentOS-6-x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml "The requested URL returned error: 404"

I verified that there isn't a network/firewall issue. In fact, it seems that repomd.xml doesn't exist in the ISO image I have mounted.

Let me describe my setup so perhaps someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong:
* I have defined a CentOS 6 Base channel, with an updates and tools channels as children.
* I downloaded the NetBoot ISO and mounted it to /var/distro-trees/CentOS-6-x86_64.
* I configured a distribution to point to this ISO mounted directory (/var/distro-trees/CentOS-6-x86_64).

I think the error stems from the fact that the ISO doesn't contain a repomd.xml file in /var/distro-trees/CentOS-6-x86_64. As a result, the client is 404ing.

I can't find much in the way of documentation about exactly which ISO is appropriate to use with Spacewalk, and how exactly the provisioning process works.

Any ideas?

Did you select any other channels in your kickstart profile than the base CentOS channel?

 
Rick

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