[Spacewalk-list] .treeinfo file missing and then trying squashfs.img

[Nikos Zaharioudakis]

Dear list,

Apart from the fork or not to fork from Spacewalk I have a tiny issue
and any inptut would be highly appreciated.

Trying to PXE provision from a spacewalk 2.8 gives me the error that
the .treeinfo file cannot be picked up and as a result tries to switch
to squashfs which doesn't exit. (check attached screenshot)

More background info:

I am trying to PXE boot a vmware machine which relies in the same
subnet with the Spacewalk

from the logs I realise that it picks up an ip address and the TFTP
server provides it the right vmlinuz initrd file

/var/log/messages


May 28 16:13:00 du-tst-spw-trn02 in.tftpd[15736]: Client
::ffff:10.131.101.30 finished
/images/rhel-74-server-rpms-pure-gui-dvd-import-repo:1:Synchronoss-test00/vmlinuz
May 28 16:13:03 du-tst-spw-trn02 in.tftpd[15737]: Client
::ffff:10.131.101.30 finished
/images/rhel-74-server-rpms-pure-gui-dvd-import-repo:1:Synchronoss-test00/initrd.img
May 28 16:13:09 du-tst-spw-trn02 dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from
00:50:56:a3:1c:b9 via ens192
May 28 16:13:10 du-tst-spw-trn02 dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 10.131.101.30 to
00:50:56:a3:1c:b9 via ens192
May 28 16:13:10 du-tst-spw-trn02 dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 10.131.101.30
(10.131.101.19) from 00:50:56:a3:1c:b9 via ens192
May 28 16:13:10 du-tst-spw-trn02 dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.131.101.30 to
00:50:56:a3:1c:b9 via ens192

Apache access log says that the kickstart file was picked up


==> /var/log/httpd/access_log <==
10.131.101.30 - - [28/May/2018:16:13:13 +0100] "GET
/cblr/svc/op/ks/profile/ks-rhel-74-server-rpms-pure-gui-dvd-import-eus:1:XXXXXXX-test00
HTTP/1.1" 200 52106 "-" "curl/7.29.0"

The operating system in question is rhel 7.4 which was imported with
locally mounted iso file.
It seems that the .treeinfo file is imported


/var/cache/rhn/reposync/1/rhel-74-server-rpms-pure-gui-dvd-import-repo/.treeinfo

Side note.
* The distribution was created successfully from the gui menu:
Systems--> Kickstarts--> Distribution

* The relevant Software channel provides access to libxml2-python,
spacewalk-koan rhnlib etc packages. There is a note when trying to
create the Kickstart progile but it was fixed by joining the relevant
repos

I am pretty sure I am missing something here. But what ?

All I need is to PXE install a machine with a specific RH 7.4
installation for our PoC lab
Well I could boot from a standard iso and then append something like
inst.ks=http:// ... pointing to the kickstart file, but I guess it
defeats the purpose doesn't it ? :-)

Thanks in Advance,


Nikos

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