[Spacewalk-list] No Kickstartable Channels/Tree found.

Stephen Herr sherr at redhat.com
Fri Feb 13 20:03:57 UTC 2015


Maybe this will be helpful, here is the Spacewalk documentation on how 
to setup kickstart distributions / profiles:
https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToKickstartCobbler

It's a little dated, the examples are referencing Fedora 9, but I don't 
think anything has changed.

-Stephen

On 02/12/2015 04:32 PM, Mike Anderson wrote:
> Did you ever get anywhere with this? I’m trying to setup kickstart for
> SLES in an ESX environment, and I’m seeing the same error "Base Channel*:
> *No Kickstartable Channels found."*
>
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> From: Gi Dot <gadidot at gmail.com <mailto:gadidot at gmail.com>>
> Reply-To: "spacewalk-list at redhat.com <mailto:spacewalk-list at redhat.com>"
> <spacewalk-list at redhat.com <mailto:spacewalk-list at redhat.com>>
> Date: Thursday, October 23, 2014 at 4:34 AM
> To: "spacewalk-list at redhat.com <mailto:spacewalk-list at redhat.com>"
> <spacewalk-list at redhat.com <mailto:spacewalk-list at redhat.com>>,
> Alexander Innes <senni at necurity.co.uk <mailto:senni at necurity.co.uk>>
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] No Kickstartable Channels/Tree found.
>
> I chose suse as the distro. I read a guide and I think I need to do it
> manually, using cobbler. I'm still a bit vague on how it works though.
>
> Here's the link to the guide:
> http://fluxcoil.net/doku.php/cobbler/sles
>
> Upon following the guide I have an active kicstart profile created (but
> of course it can't be managed by spacewalk).
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Alexander Innes <senni at necurity.co.uk
> <mailto:senni at necurity.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     What options are set in the dirsto :)? It could be that you have
>     Installer Generationset to something other then suse?
>     here: (sorry i prefer the forum layout!)
>     http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.spacewalk.user/14299
>
>     Suggests also that you cannot wizard the creation of them, you need
>     to upload an autoyast (wassat?), so it could be that, not familiar
>     with suse though im afraid
>
>     On 23 October 2014 05:30, Gi Dot <gadidot at gmail.com
>     <mailto:gadidot at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Here you go:
>
>         http://i.imgur.com/tbK5gHD.png
>         http://i.imgur.com/mSDal2h.png
>
>         On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Waldirio Manhães Pinheiro
>         <waldirio at gmail.com <mailto:waldirio at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>             Maybe
>
>             But if you click in Systems - Kickstart - Profile - create a
>             new kickstart profile
>
>             Can you send to us the print screen ?!
>
>             B'Regards
>
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>             On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 1:58 AM, Gi Dot <gadidot at gmail.com
>             <mailto:gadidot at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>                 That's what I've been trying to do.
>
>                 Oh my, just had a chat with my colleague. I'm not
>                 familiar with Red Hat and I rarely play with CentOS, so
>                 I didn't know that Kickstart is actually a feature to
>                 automate installation in Red Hat. No wonder it failed
>                 since I'm trying to create a kickstart for suse
>                 *facepalm*. I supposed I need to look into autoyast instead?
>
>                 Thanks for the help,
>
>                 On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Waldirio Manhães
>                 Pinheiro <waldirio at gmail.com
>                 <mailto:waldirio at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>                     Gi,
>
>                     Can you create a new kickstart profile ?!
>
>                     B'Regards
>
>                     ______________
>                     Atenciosamente
>                     Waldirio
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>                     On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:36 PM, Gi Dot
>                     <gadidot at gmail.com <mailto:gadidot at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>                         Well there's a green 'tick' under the 'Valid?*'
>                         column, so I guess the it's alright. Plus the
>                         distributions won't get created if the details
>                         aren't valid, no?
>
>                         Here's a screenshot.
>                         http://i.imgur.com/BU2P0F3.png
>
>
>                         Thanks.
>
>
>
>                         On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Alexander Innes
>                         <senni at necurity.co.uk
>                         <mailto:senni at necurity.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>                             You sure its valid under
>                             kick-starts->distributions?
>
>                             On 21 October 2014 10:27, Gi Dot
>                             <gadidot at gmail.com
>                             <mailto:gadidot at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>                                 Hi,
>
>                                 Recently I installed Spacewalk on a
>                                 virtual CentOS 6.5. The installation
>                                 went smooth. I followed the following
>                                 guides to setup software channels,
>                                 distribution and kickstart:
>
>                                 http://www.sysadminwiki.net/site/doku.php/services/spacewalk/server_configuration
>                                 http://www.sysadminwiki.net/site/doku.php/services/spacewalk/distribution_configuration
>
>
>                                 I failed to create a kickstart profile
>                                 due to not having a Kickstartable
>                                 channels and Kickstartable tree. I have
>                                 created a Kickstartable distributions
>                                 and it was successful. I do have a valid
>                                 base channel as well as tree path. I'm
>                                 stumped.
>
>                                 What did I miss? Please advise.
>
>                                 Thanks.
>
>
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