[Spacewalk-list] Kickstart/DNS issue

[Mike Wilson]

Is there some place in the kickstart profile to tell it NOT to use IPv6?

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Mike Wilson <mrwboilers at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.imgto 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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