[Spacewalk-list] Kickstart related error -- need help debugging

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 02:01:19PM -0400, Boyd, Robert wrote:
> I'm getting emails sent to root on my spacewalk 1.7 server.   It looks like there's something going on with kickstarts, even though I'm not really using kickstart explicitly currently.  There's a lot of output - where should I send this kind of error output to have someone look through it for clues?
> 

[...]

> Exception Handler Information
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/server/apacheRequest.py", line 122, in call_function
>     response = apply(func, params)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/server/rhnRepository.py", line 252, in repodata
>     return self._repodata_taskomatic(file_name)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/server/rhnRepository.py", line 221, in _repodata_taskomatic
>     return self._repodata_python(file_name)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/server/rhnRepository.py", line 196, in _repodata_python
>     output = repo.get_comps_file()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/server/repomd/repository.py", line 165, in get_comps_file
>     return comps_view.get_file()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/server/repomd/view.py", line 347, in get_file
>     comps_file = open(self.comps.filename)
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/satellite/rhn/kickstart/ks-rhel-x86_64-server-5/Server/repodata/comps-rhel5-server-core.xml'
> 
> 
> I'm not sure why anything is looking for something under kickstart at all ... if someone is willing to look at it, I can send the rest of the error output.

Well, it's your Apache log which should tell you what the system
1000010223 tries to do -- what it requested before this GET that
failed.

-- 
Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat