[Spacewalk-list] Error While Kickstarting

Tue Feb 11 13:03:39 UTC 2014

Hi George,but you have created a base/child channels for every minor release of centos?Usually I create only one base, and relative child channels for every centos major release (5.x or 6.x) by pointing to: ....../mirrors/CentOS/6/os/x86_64/....../mirrors/CentOS/6/updates/x86_64/and if you want a specific centos release (6.1, 6.2, 6.3...) you can use cloned channel or spacewalk-clone-by-date commandbest regardsa
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Oggetto: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Error While Kickstarting

> filed bugreport http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=6977
> 
> Regards,
> 
> G.
> 
> On 11/02/14 12:23, George wrote:
> > So today I got my kickstarts working again ...
> >
> > so I went in a little deeper and got a peek at the current package repos
> > online and checksummed them:
> >
> > a351949c3b473df3ea9b524b1fa02d33
> > redhat-logos-60.0.14-12.el6.centos.noarch.rpm.6.4_32
> > e8846e8f42eb877abc2fce1c8bd2f0e9
> > redhat-logos-60.0.14-12.el6.centos.noarch.rpm.6.4_64
> > a351949c3b473df3ea9b524b1fa02d33
> > redhat-logos-60.0.14-12.el6.centos.noarch.rpm.6.5_32
> > a351949c3b473df3ea9b524b1fa02d33
> > redhat-logos-60.0.14-12.el6.centos.noarch.rpm.6.5_64
> > 502fb747b0e28ed38f218d9ab3bb1479
> > xdg-utils-1.0.2-17.20091016cvs.el6.noarch.rpm.6.3_32
> > 261220c805ac1ca4207b21c756c4dc32
> > xdg-utils-1.0.2-17.20091016cvs.el6.noarch.rpm.6.3_64
> > 502fb747b0e28ed38f218d9ab3bb1479
> > xdg-utils-1.0.2-17.20091016cvs.el6.noarch.rpm.6.4_32
> > 261220c805ac1ca4207b21c756c4dc32
> > xdg-utils-1.0.2-17.20091016cvs.el6.noarch.rpm.6.4_64
> > 502fb747b0e28ed38f218d9ab3bb1479
> > xdg-utils-1.0.2-17.20091016cvs.el6.noarch.rpm.6.5_32
> > 502fb747b0e28ed38f218d9ab3bb1479
> > xdg-utils-1.0.2-17.20091016cvs.el6.noarch.rpm.6.5_64
> >
> >
> > basicly: packages with exactly the same name exist in both centos 6.5
> > and centos 6.4 repo (and sometimes also centos 6.3), but their checksum
> > is different!
> >
> > I guess the deduplication engine from spacewalk can't handle that and
> > when I imported centos 6.5 it linked some of the packages to the equally
> > named package from centos 6.4 and since for kickstart you use the
> > repodata on the dvd the checksum on install is different from the
> > checksum in the repodata and all the errors like "download does not
> > match expected package", "package corrupted" will kill the install.
> >
> > In conclusion: cleaning out all the OS repos in my spacewalk and only
> > syncing the centos 6.5 one fixed it for me ...
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > G
> >
> >
> > On 10/02/14 22:20, George wrote:
> >> Hello again,
> >>
> >> I think I figured out the problem:
> >> when kickstarting anaconda fetches the packages from the url (for a
> >> kickstart with centos 6.5 x86_64):
> >> http://spacewalk/ks/dist/centos-6.5-x86_64/Packages/*
> >>
> >> One of my kickstarts failed for example at the package xdg-utils:
> >> http://spacewalk/ks/dist/centos-6.5-x86_64/Packages/xdg-utils-1.0.2-17.20091016cvs.el6.noarch.rpm
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> So I did a wget of this package and compared the sha256sum to a the
> >> webinterface and another package from a public mirror
> >>
> >> the sha256sum is and should be:
> >> a371df77e3e50d353c77a7965be90c796a755f0413f8dd62d4fc50b993fe9f69
> >> but the file I wget from the url above shows:
> >> 2d1ae581c04ffd265220e5e8befb1f40c77de7e9299d65d95f1f4a4a33ae4264
> >>
> >> when I lookup xdg-utils it says that it's the same version in centos 6.5
> >> x86_64, centos 6.3 ia32, centos 6.4 ia32
> >>
> >> when I do a search for that package I also find a package which matches
> >> the sha256sum from the package I wget (and which fails to install on
> >> kickstart) in the channel centos 6.4 x86_64 and centos 6.3 x86_64
> >>
> >> so to conclude:
> >>
> >> spacewalk is making mistakes when it seperates channels ... it takes
> >> wrong packages in wrong channels ...
> >> Cleaning up all my channels now and re-syncing only the centos 6.5
> >> x86_64 packages ...
> >>
> >> Come to think of this I have seen this behavior before ... but only with
> >> 1 package and there I also deleted this particular package and resynced
> >> it again from a mirror.
> >>
> >> Any developer could dig in the code and try and find why this happens?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> G.
> >> On 17/01/14 01:43, George wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> recently I encountered the same behavior,
> >>> did you find a solution for this in the end?
> >>> It seems to be a terrible problem from which I cannot seem to recover
> >>> ... I tried deleting all packages from a channel, deleting the repodata
> >>> cache and re-fetching the whole lot and rebuilding repodata to no avail.
> >>> One train of thought is that it has something to do with proxy stuff ...
> >>> but I am not so sure how spacewalk exactly works on that part ... I know
> >>> the httpd runs an proxy_ajp module or something but not sure how this
> >>> all plays together ...
> >>>
> >>> I am at a complete loss here ... if I can't get it fixed in due time I
> >>> see no other option but to install a new spacewalk server and redo my
> >>> whole setup :-(
> >>>
> >>> centos 5.10 x86_64 with spacewalk 2.0 (upgraded a couple of months ago
> >>> from 1.6, but up to now it looked to run fine ... )
> >>>
> >>> I checked httpd logs but they just say similar things like described
> >>> below a code 206 and no relevant errors in the catalina.out either.
> >>>
> >>> I tried with several -working fine up to last week- profiles but none
> >>> seem to want to install.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>> G.
> >>>
> >>> On 01/10/13 15:57, Wojtak, Greg wrote:
> >>>> SELinux is permissive.  I checked /var/log/httpd/error_log, nothing.
> >>>> Something in /var/log/httpd/access_log caught my attention though -
> >>>>
> >>>> 1.2.3.4 - - [01/Oct/2013:09:51:58 -0400] "GET
> >>>> /ks/dist/CentOS-6.4-x86_64/Packages/gdbm-1.8.0-36.el6.x86_64.rpm
> >>>> HTTP/1.1"
> >>>> 206 7504 "-" "CentOS (anaconda)/6.4"
> >>>>
> >>>> Looks like it is getting a 206 response code and only about 7K of the
> >>>> rpm,
> >>>> which is about 15K short.  According to RFC2616, 206 is a Partial
> >>>> Content
> >>>> response code, which I'm not really familiar with.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Any ideas about that?  Is there some httpd setting I need to tweak?
> >>>>
> >>>> -- Greg Wojtak Senior Unix Systems Engineer Office: (313) 373-4306
> >>>> Mobile: (734) 718-8472 On 10/1/13 9:20 AM, "Michael Mraka"
> >>>>  wrote:
> >>>>> >Wojtak, Greg wrote:
> >>>>> >% >% Try 10/10 for
> >>>>> >%
> >>>>>> >>http:///ks/dist/CentOS-6.4-x86_64/Packages/gdbm-1.8.0-3
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> >>6
> >>>>> >% >.el6.x86_64.rpm failed: [Errno 1] Header is not complete.
> >>>>> >% >% Failed to get
> >>>>> >%
> >>>>>> >>http:///ks/dist/CentOS-6.4-x86_64/Packages/gdbm-1.8.0-3
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> >>6
> >>>>> >% >.el6.x86_64.rpm from mirror 1/1, or downloaded file is corrupt.
> >>>>> >% >%
> >>>>> >% >% >From the command prompt window, I can wget that url and pull
> >>>>> down
> >>>>> >the
> >>>>> >% >file.
> >>>>> >% >%
> >>>>> >% >% I've tried removing the package from the channel and re-adding
> >>>>> it,
> >>>>> >the
> >>>>> >% >result was the same.  I've tried creating a new kickstart profile
> >>>>> (from
> >>>>> >% >scratch, not a clone), also with the same result.
> >>>>> >% >%
> >>>>> >% >% Any ideas?
> >>>>> >% >
> >>>>> >% >I'd locate gdbm-1.8.0-36.el6.x86_64.rpm on spacewalk's disk and
> >>>>> >% >run rpm -K to check whether it's ok.
> >>>>> >%
> >>>>> >%
> >>>>> >% Thanks Michael.  The RPM itself appears to be fine:
> >>>>> >%
> >>>>> >% [root at spacewalk satellite]# rpm -K
> >>>>> >%
> >>>>> >redhat/1/66d/gdbm/1.8.0-36.el6/x86_64/66d7e15c29b5215a5723962777734c389ac6
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> >b
> >>>>> >% 7f9e726ec362e33277e3c7fe58c/gdbm-1.8.0-36.el6.x86_64.rpm
> >>>>> >%
> >>>>> >redhat/1/66d/gdbm/1.8.0-36.el6/x86_64/66d7e15c29b5215a5723962777734c389ac6
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> >b
> >>>>> >% 7f9e726ec362e33277e3c7fe58c/gdbm-1.8.0-36.el6.x86_64.rpm: rsa sha1
> >>>>> (md5)
> >>>>> >% pgp md5 OK
> >>>>> >% [root at spacewalk satellite]# rpm -q --info -p
> >>>>> >%
> >>>>> >redhat/1/66d/gdbm/1.8.0-36.el6/x86_64/66d7e15c29b5215a5723962777734c389ac6
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> >b
> >>>>> >% 7f9e726ec362e33277e3c7fe58c/gdbm-1.8.0-36.el6.x86_64.rpm
> >>>>> >% Name        : gdbm                         Relocations: (not
> >>>>> >relocatable)
> >>>>> >% Version     : 1.8.0                             Vendor: CentOS
> >>>>> >% Release     : 36.el6                        Build Date: Thu 11 Nov
> >>>>> 2010
> >>>>> >...
> >>>>> >
> >>>>> >Hmm, permission and/or selinux? Any eeror in
> >>>>> /var/log/httpd/error_log or
> >>>>> >any AVC in /var/log/audit/audit.log?
> >>>>> >
> >>>>> >Can other clients registered to the same channel download the
> >>>>> package?
> >>>>> >
> >>>>> >Regards,
> >>>>> >
> >>>>> >--
> >>>>> >Michael Mráka
> >>>>> >Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
> 
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