[Spacewalk-list] Multiple issues with kickstarting functionnality

[Waldirio Manhães Pinheiro]

Pierre

Can you share your ks file !?

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On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Waldirio Manhães Pinheiro <
waldirio at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Pierre
>
> About client, you can use Firefox or Chrome without problem. I got some
> problems in IE when showing the highlights of scripts for example.
>
> About scripts, you can select in your KS template in TAB Scripts, add new
> script. Here you will define the content of scripts, at the end you can
> select if will be executed before or after installation.
>
> About your cryptography, you can remove the password line and define again
> using the webUI.
>
> About detect your first hard drive, we have to test !! :-)
>
> B'Regards
>
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> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Pierre Casenove <pcasenove at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I'm trying to configure spacewalk to kickstart my system.
>> Currently, we're using only a customized DVD, with ageneric kickstart,
>> and I'm trying to port this kickstart to spacewalk...
>> Here are the issue I'm facing:
>> - What browser should I use??? I've tried IE 10, Firefox 26, latest
>> chrome, and on each browser I have different issues:
>> Chrome and firefox: I can't kickstart pre and post script, a rtext box
>> seems to be missing...
>> I can upload a kickstart, but then nothing appears when I go to
>> "Kickstart file" link
>> IE: the wbe page layout for uploading a kickstarting is all messed up,
>> but at least, I can view the kickstart file after it has been uploaded...
>>
>> - When I manually create a kickstart, I have this problem. In my current
>> KS, I use "%include" directives, to include pre-scripts. These scripts
>> configures are mainly used to detect the first hard drive, and calculate
>> the "bootloader" and "part" kickstart keyword...
>> In spacewalk UI, I did not finc the way to use include directive, as well
>> as not using the bootloader directive  (in advanced Options link). As i
>> told, in my kickstart, the bootloader directive is calculated in my pre
>> script... so I dont need to use it!
>>
>> - So I tried to upload my kickstart... but it also fails!
>> 1/ I have this error message:
>> This kickstart profile uses a different type of encryption by default
>> than the root password is currently using. You must reset the root password
>> to encrypt it with the new method.
>> ---> Can i live with this?
>>
>> 2/ I have another error:
>> <class 'Cheetah.Parser.ParseError'>:
>> Error in the Python code which Cheetah generated for this template:
>>
>> ===============================================================================
>> EOL while scanning string literal
>> (cheetah_DynamicallyCompiledCheetahTemplate_1414681774_07_98912.py, line
>> 151)
>> Line|Python Code
>> ----|-------------------------------------------------------------
>> 149 |
>> 150 |        try:
>> 151 |            return eval('''VFSL([locals()]+SL+[globals(),
>> __builtin__],"ls",True) -l /dev/cdrom | awk '{print $NF}'''', globals(),
>> localsDict)
>>                               ^
>> 152 |            return self._CHEETAH__errorCatcher.warn(exc_val=e, code=
>> u'VFSL([locals()]+SL+[globals(), __builtin__],"ls",True) -l /dev/cdrom |
>> awk \'{print $NF}\'' , rawCode= u"$(ls -l /dev/cdrom | awk '{print $NF}')"
>> , lineCol=(259, 7))
>> 153 |
>> 154 |    def __errorCatcher14(self, localsDict={}):
>> Here is the corresponding Cheetah code.
>> ** I had to guess the line & column numbers, so they are probably
>> incorrect:
>> Line 42, column 5
>>
>> Line|Cheetah Code
>> ----|-------------------------------------------------------------
>> 42  |set $(list-harddrives|grep -v sr)
>>             ^
>>
>>
>> In my kickstart, I, indeed, have the following line of code: set
>> $(list-harddrives|grep -v sr), used to detexct the first hardrive...
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help
>>
>> Pierre
>>
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