[Spacewalk-list] [2.1 + postgresql] Recover 'kickstart' section

[Jan Huijsmans]

On 25/02/15 18:45, Paul Robert Marino wrote:
> did you check cobbler?

Yeah, totally empty. After rebuilding on a SL7 host with nightly 
(2.3/2.4) I decided to check this one out. Everything worked fine, until 
the spacewalk environment wants to connect to cobbler.

Checking the posrts it listened on, I found it only listens on IPv4 and 
ignores IPv6 all together. Everything works as it should, except 
cobbler. Disabling IPv6 solved this issue, except that I want to use 
IPv6, as my complete internal network is IPv6 aware.

Is there a way to make cobbler IPv6 aware in SL6 and spacewalk 2.1?

> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Jan Huijsmans <bofh at koffie.nu> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Been lurking for years now, as I haven't been messing around in Spacewalk
>> since 2010 (1.4 version) and only last year started again with 2.1. It's a
>> dream to work with postgresql as back-end instead of Oracle.
>>
>> While I was installing 2.2 on SL 7 and got a bit stuck (encoding, just had
>> time to take a dive and got it working) I tried to setup a kickstarting
>> environment for CentOS 6, SL6 and openSUSE 13. It worked nicely for the
>> CentOS and SL environment, but openSUSE didn't want to install. Not to
>> surprising, as it was fed a kickstart file instead of an autoyast. While I
>> was correcting this the server died on me.
>>
>> On recovery I can do anything with the environment, even install systems,
>> but when I want to view a list of kickstart profiles or edit a kickstart
>> distribution, I get an internal server error. The summary and the list of
>> distributions is correct, but when I want to edit, nada. Looks like a
>> damaged table with that info, but I can't imagine why you can access the
>> data for install, but not to edit.
>>
>> Checked rhn, httpd and tomcat logs, quiet as a mouse. I would say the
>> content of the page is incorrect, even though the mouse-over shows the link
>> it should open. Is there any way to get the environment to tell me what it's
>> doing or at least what it's waiting for? (max debug level would be nice)
>>
>> The 2.1 environment is going to be ditched, so if I break anything else, I
>> don't mind, as I'm already rebuilding, but I would love to get this sorted
>> out. (for when the environment is less expendable)
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Jan Huijsmans              huysmans at koffie.nu
>>
>> ... cannot activate /dev/brain, no response from main coffee server