[Spacewalk-list] Issues with Kickstart

[Milan Zazrivec]

> Hello,
> 
> I am having issue with creating a kickstart on Spacewalk 1.6, I am
> trying to follow the set up from CentOS Page
> (http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PackageManagement/Spacewalk ). I have
> download the lastest CentOS 5, and I have it mount, but when I go to
> create a distro ( System --> Kickstart --> Distributions )
> 
> Distribution Label: CentOS-5-i386
> Tree Path:/var/distro-trees/CentOS-5-i386/images/pxeboot/
> Base Channel: CentOS 5 Base - i386
> Installer Generation: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
> 
> I am getting the following error....
> 
> The initrd could not be found at the specified location:
> /var/distro-trees/CentOS-5-i386/images/pxeboot/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
> 
> I know that the page states to make sure that the iso can be read by
> tomcat so I have in /etc/fstab that it's owned by tomcat.
> 
> /var/iso-images/CentOS-5.7-i386-bin-DVD-1of2.iso
> /var/distro-trees/CentOS-5-i386 iso9660
> rw,uid=91,gid=91,loop=/dev/loop1 0 0
> 
> I can see that works
> 
> drwxrwxr-x 6 tomcat tomcat 6144 Sep  5 08:10 CentOS-5-i386
> 
> I can see that initrd.img is there....
> 
> [root at spacewalk CentOS-5-i386]# cd images/pxeboot/
> [root at spacewalk pxeboot]# pwd
> /var/distro-trees/CentOS-5-i386/images/pxeboot
> [root at spacewalk pxeboot]# ls
> initrd.img  README  TRANS.TBL  vmlinuz
> [root at spacewalk pxeboot]# ls -l
> total 12058
> -rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat 10450542 Sep  5 07:53 initrd.img
> -rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat      265 Sep  5 07:53 README
> -r--r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat      659 Sep  5 08:10 TRANS.TBL
> -rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat tomcat  1894036 Sep  5 07:53 vmlinuz
> 
> Am I missing something? Is there a page I can view or can someone
> please example to me what I am doing wrong?

An SELinux issue perhaps?

-MZ

> I have even tried to set the tree as follows but I get an internal error
> 500
> 
> Tree Path:/var/distro-trees/CentOS-5-i386/
> 
> I looked at the Coobler logs and I am seeing that running, but I am
> not seeing any errors....
> 
> Tue Feb 28 18:12:49 2012 - DEBUG | API handle initialized
> Tue Feb 28 18:12:50 2012 - DEBUG | XMLRPC running on 25151
> 
> I have looked into the Apache, Spacewalk, and Tomcat logs and don't
> see any errors.
> 
> 
> Chuck Payne
> 
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