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

[Lewis Donofrio]

remove proxy and see if better?


On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Michael Guidero <mg at sococo.com> wrote:

>
> > Michael Guidero wrote:
> > % Hi,
> > ...
> > % 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).
> > %
> > % 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.
> > %
> > % 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"
> > %
> > % 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"
> > %
> > % 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.
> > %
> > % 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?
> >
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> Unfortunately there are no related messages in the http *error_log files
> on either Spacewalk or Proxy.
>
> Michael Guidero
>
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