[Spacewalk-list] Kickstarting CentOS

[Kalchik, Jeffery]

Whether or not the package is essential doesn’t matter.  Any package in the configured channels or repositories should be usable.

I’ve had issues where multiple packages exist that are named identically (different channels,) but compiled or built from different sources, leading to different checksums.  My only workaround for this particular problem is to identify those package name collisions, and remove the packages that I do not want to use.

Philipp, your issue looks a bit different.  The error you’re getting seems like a network transmission issue.  I’d be tempted to fire up wireshark (or some other network tracing app) to check traffic in/out of your Spacewalk server.  It’d be interesting to see what differences exist in the network captures between the anaconda download and the wget.

Jeff Kalchik
Systems Engineering
Land O’Lakes

From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Deepjoy Choudhury
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2015 8:40 AM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Kickstarting CentOS

Please try excluding this package in the Kickstart.
Vim is not an essential package.

Br
Deepjoy

From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com<mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com> [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Philipp Wehling
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2015 9:23 PM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com<mailto:spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Kickstarting CentOS

Hello,

I have problems kickstarting CentOS 6/7.

I already googled and found this discussion:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.spacewalk.user/12920


I have got the same problems.

During the kickstarting, anaconda tries to get the vim-package:

192.168.0.241 - - [12/Nov/2015:16:30:45 +0100] "GET /ks/dist/org/1/CentOS7-x86_64-dist/Packages/vim-common-7.4.160-1.el7.x86_64.rpm HTTP/1.1" 206 252040 "-" "urlgrabber/3.10 yum/3.4.3"

If I do a wget to the same url (from the same host):

192.168.0.241 - - [12/Nov/2015:16:38:54 +0100] "GET /ks/dist/org/1/CentOS7-x86_64-dist/Packages/vim-common-7.4.160-1.el7.x86_64.rpm HTTP/1.1" 200 6211720 "-" "Wget/1.14 (linux-gnu)"


In packaging.log I can see following errors:

error populating transaction after 10 retries: failure: Packages/vim-common...rpm from anaconda: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
http://<URL>/Packages/vim-common...rpm:<http://%3cURL%3e/Packages/vim-common...rpm:> [Errno -1] Header is not complete.

The solution mentioned above isnt working for me.

Are there any other ideas?


kind regards,
Philipp
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