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

[Daniel Jabbour]

Yes, I did. I selected them all (the children: updates, and tools for spacewalk).

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On Dec 21, 2011, at 6:41 AM, Rick van der Linde wrote:

> 
>  
> 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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