[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk not delivering comps.xml during kickstart

[Michael Mraka]

Michael Guidero wrote:
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% Recently we started deploying a new server type, and last week it was time to start deploying the production systems.  We cloned our staging kickstart and created an appropriate new activation key and set the appropriate channels (the relevant channels already existed prior, for a long time now).  When we went to kickstart the system, we began seeing "retrying download" for comps.xml (and repomd.xml at times).  
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% In the log on vt3 of the installing system, we saw "WARNING : Try 1/10 for http://<sw-proxy-ip>/ks/dist/child/prod-clone-sl-6.2-x86_64-epel/SL-62-x86_64-2012-02-06/repodata/comps.xml failed: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum" and then progressing through try 10/10.  
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% On the proxy we saw in squid access.log "1380214098.913    166 127.0.0.1 TCP_MISS/200 4126 GET http://<sw-proxy-hostname>/ks/dist/child/prod-clone-sl-6.2-x86_64-epel/SL-62-x86_64-2012-02-06/repodata/comps.xml - DIRECT/<sw-proxy-ip> text/html"
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% On the main SW server we saw messages such as "<sw-proxy-ip> - - [26/Sep/2013:11:24:32 -0700] "GET /ks/dist/child/prod-clone-sl-6.2-x86_64-epel/SL-62-x86_64-2012-02-06/repodata/comps.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 3724 "-" "Scientific Linux (anaconda)/6.2"
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% We were not able to reproduce this with the kickstart we cloned from.  We verified that we see the same results when kickstarting through the proxy and directly through the main Spacewalk server.  We also tried creating a new kickstart clone and see the same thing.
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% When I try to load the URL in the browser through the proxy, I get "file download failed."  If I try through the browser and the main SW server, I get a pop-up that says "A serve error has occurred"  However, based on the dissimilar log messages to what we experience when it is via kickstart, I am not convinced that this is a proper way to check.  Is it?

Hi Michael,

Are there any related errors in /var/log/httpd/*error_log on spacewalk and/or proxy?


Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat