[Spacewalk-list] Kickstart/DNS issue

[Mike Wilson]

At the point in the install where it stops because it can't resolve the
spacewalk server's hostname, if I hit alt-F3, I can see more detail of what
is happening.

It says reverse name lookup failed
starting to STEP_URL
URL_STAGE_MAIN - url is http://myswalkserver/ks/dist/CentOS5
trying to mount CD device hda
trying to mount CD device scd0
transferring http://myswalkserver//ks/dist/CentOS5/images/updates.img to a
fd
we don't have reverse DNS for IPv6 yet
transferring http://141swalk01//ks/dist/CentOS5/disc1/images/updates.img to
a fd
... more like that ("we don't have reverse DNS for IPv6 yet" appears a few
more times.)

I'm not using IPv6. What gives?

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Mike Wilson <mrwboilers at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just built a spacewalk server and I'm trying to use it to kickstart the
> build of another box. It mostly works fine, with 2 exceptions:
>
> 1. When the CentOS install starts, it says that it can't find the
> stage2.img file. It is trying to find it by the DNS name of my spacewalk
> server. It will let me edit where it's looking, and if I replace the server
> name with the server IP address, then it finds the file and the OS install
> completes. My spacewalk server provides DHCP, and valid DNS servers are
> included in the DHCP scope. After the install is complete and the newly
> built server boots up, it gets DHCP from the spacewalk server,
> /etc/resolv.conf is properly populated and I can successfully do an
> nslookup of the spacewalk server on it. So as far as I can tell, DHCP and
> DNS are working. Any suggestions?
>
> 2. When the kickstart completes, the newly built server is not registered
> in spacewalk. Shouldn't it be? Or do they always need to be registered
> manually? Or is it best to have it be registered through a post install
> script? I do have an activation key associated with the kickstart profile,
> and I've set up the tools child channel as outlined here:
> https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToKickstartCobbler
>
> Any guidance is appreciated.
>
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