(I'm still pretty new to spacewalk, but this is what I'd try) What about
creating a pre-script for your kickstart configuration and have it create
your needed repo file?
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On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:07 PM, J.W. slone jslon...@yahoo.com wrote:
I am building new centos 5.7 workstaion
-defaults/rhn_web.conf
Check those permissions and try a /usr/sbin/spacewalk-service restart.
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On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Paul Raines rai...@nmr.mgh.harvard.eduwrote:
We are trying to install Spacewalk 1.8 on a freshly installed CentOS 6.3 VM
following the directions
fresh install I perform and submit a bug if I encounter it again.
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On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Jan Pazdziora jpazdzi...@redhat.comwrote:
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 09:28:52AM -0800, Jon Miller wrote:
This may be a shot in the dark but having just gone through installing
-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT. I needed
to do that before any of my rhnpush commands would work.
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On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Snyder, Chris chris_sny...@sra.com wrote:
This file is usually automatically created when you install your spacewalk
server per the usual installation guides. It's
-kickstarting still complains about missing the same two
packages.
Is there some sort of sync, cache flush or the like that I need to perform
before a new kickstart can see that those packages are now available for
installation?
Thanks,
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#-- More Details about what I did to resolve my
it as being available?
My rhnpush command: rhnpush -u ${SPACEWALK_USER} -p ${SPACEWALK_PASS}
-v --channel=$CHANNEL --server=http://localhost --dir=$dir
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P.S. My procedure to help isolate the client using only the spacewalk repo:
$ yum repolist
repo id
experience with their FC18 deployments by re-reading the ML.
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On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Jonathan DeHaan jdeh...@nexstar.tv wrote:
You are correct, using the repodata from the DVD will prevent you from
adding packages to the base channel and installing them with Anaconda. Your
Are you sure it isn't registered within your errata channel? If you upload
a package which already exists, it will give you a message like you've seen
but still create an entry / links within your channel. Check your channel
to confirm whether or not the errata is listed.
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On Mon
. Repeat the process for any other packages you need
during install.
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On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Edward Drummond
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I have tried this. If I make it:
%packages
@ Base
rhn-setup
rhn-check
%end
the installer tells me these packages
.
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On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Edward Drummond
spacewalklist-isc...@snkmail.com wrote:
That's a very interesting idea and I will try it. The implication is
there are things needed during install that are not available in the
proper channels, such as:
fedora16-x86_64
fedora16
.
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On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Nick Wales n...@nickwales.co.uk wrote:
I'm having trouble when running the following:
spacewalk-channel --list-available -u username -p password
I get a response of:
Error communicating with server. The message was:
redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcFault
-110014/string/value /member and within the
Sapcewalk UI, I see my system ID as 110014.
If those match, I'd personally try running it with 'strace' and look for
other clues like blatant permission errors but if you're not familiar with
that output, it can be a bit daunting.
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On Mon
I have lately gotten good leads when looking at the temp files being
generated in /tmp on the client. Try switching over to VT2 and poking
around. Other than that, you may get some clues by watching your apache
access logs and see what was being requested right before the client died.
Good luck,
Worked for me too. Send an extra thank you to your anonymous kind soul.
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On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Coffman, Anthony J
tony.coff...@snapon.com wrote:
A kind soul shared a fix for this issue with me today.
ln -s /var/www/html/network/software/
/usr/share/spacewalk/web
, the grub boot entry still had the root=UUID=XXX
entry and when I removed that, it initiated a kickstart vs. a OS boot. Now
when I want to perform a re-install with koan I add the additional option
of --no-copy-default along with --replace-self.
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On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:32 AM, Tomi
]: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/VACUUM_FULL
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On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Anton Pritchard-Meaker
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I managed to fix this by exporting the database, dropping it in
postgresql, re-creating it and then re-importing. Performance seems
proceeded fine.
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renames any /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo file with a .off extension but
apparently this isn't quick enough. Is there a more effective way in
disabling local repos quicker?
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On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Jon Miller joneb...@gmail.com wrote:
I have been developing a CentOS 6
an
error about installing a libutempter package when I have my Updates
channel included on the KS but otherwise get messages about missing
a iscsi-initiator-utils package. I can figure this one out through a series
of further testing.
Thanks again for the tip.
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On Wed, Apr 24, 2013
It's not just you. Down for me too.
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/spacewalk.fedorahosted.org
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On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Jim Miller jmil...@centricgroup.comwrote:
Is the spacewalk wiki down or is it just me? User Documentation
User documentation
that special comment is inserted during upload of a new script.
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only half way. :-)
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On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Jon Miller joneb...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm currently wrapping up a script that helps me update the scripts
collection for a specified kickstart profile. I currently have to use
the kickstart.profile.removeScript
Whenever I've removed a package from a channel, I'm often too impatient for
the repodata to be rebuilt. Could that be your problem? You can check the
last repo build time on the channel detail page or also just look at
/var/cache/rhn/repodata/*.
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On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:35 PM
troubleshooting. You want to be
sure you're using the same URL and then look in further logs for further
clues.
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On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Reed, Steven
steven.r...@transport.nsw.gov.au wrote:
Hi Jon,
** **
When it kickstarts is cannot find the package:
** **
sos-1.7-9.62
,
Jon Miller
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Reed, Steven
steven.r...@transport.nsw.gov.au wrote:
Thanks for replying again Jon, actually I inadvertently blew away all the
packages in the repo...so after a spacewalk-repo-sync it now complains it
can't find a package due to different versions
do I trigger a complete rebuild without having
to remove/add a package? (I tried
the channel.software.regenerateNeededCache() API call but didn't seem to do
what I was looking for)
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don't know how
it knows how much data to request.
I think if I run into this problem again, I'll either enable increased
logging in Apache to show me the http headers and/or run a tcpdump capture
to also see the same information.
Thanks,
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.
Thanks,
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[1]: Commands used to compare old repodata vs. current:
mkdir tmp cd tmp
tar -xzvf /tmp/repodata_20130502.tgz
var/cache/rhn/repodata/centos6.2-x86_64
mv var/cache/rhn/repodata/centos6.2-x86_64 centos6.2-x86_64.bad
rm -rf var
cp -pr /var/cache/rhn/repodata/centos6.2-x86_64 centos6.2
is corrupt
I have tried the following two trick unsuccessfully this morning:
1. Delete the RPMs and resync the channel.
2. Delete the local repodata and trigger a fresh rebuild.
I'm out of ideas at the moment. I'd appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks,
Jon Miller
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 4:58 AM, Tomas
Thank you very much. I deleted the libart_lgpl packages from my local EPEL
channel and the install is off an happily running.
Thanks again,
Jon Miller
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Paul Robert Marino prmari...@gmail.comwrote:
Ive hit this too and there are a few more
Essentially when
I similarly concluded I needed to disable the default CentOS repos and I
got a good pre script solution recommended here on the list:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2013-April/msg00103.html
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On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Michael Linder
michael.lin...@pt
If your pre script is already working the way you'd like it to, I'd suggest
just writing out the answers is a varname=$varname format that you can
later re-source in the %post section.
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On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Corey Hemminger
corey.hemmin...@nativex.com wrote:
I have
token=$token
rack=$rack
EOF
That is called a here-document and you can find more details about it in
your local bash(1) manpage.
Later in your %post script, you can source it via the . operator or
keyword source:
source /tmp/custom_vars
echo Relearned that my IP is $ip
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recommendation that I
could follow?
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On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Jon Miller joneb...@gmail.com wrote:
I would like to continue to use the same base Fedora 18 channel but clone
the Updates channel to be managed independently from the original. (Idea is
that separate profiles can use separate Updates channels and manage
don't know why it wouldn't work.)
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On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Alyson Calhoun alyson.calh...@gmail.com wrote:
Does anyone have any recommendations on the best way to do this?
My kickstart pulls in the initial network using my DHCP server. During
kickstart, the new built gets
machine vs.
my internal Spacewalk server. Should I be propagating the same DNS
name in the dmz for my proxy as what I have internally?
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Jon Miller wrote:
% I just completed an install of spacewalk proxy. I tried testing by
% taking a URL to a kickstart file, I know that works on my main
% spacewalk server, and changed the host to my proxy. I get the
% following entries in /var/log/rhn
= client.kickstart.snippet.listCustom(session)
if not snippets:
return -1
return re.search(r'/(\d+)/', snippets[0]['fragment']).group(1)
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return -1
return re.search(r'/(\d+)/', snippets[0]['fragment']).group(1)
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that I'm going to need a separate proxy
server for each organization that requires a DMZ presence. Is that the
correct conclusion or is there a way to re-use the same proxy for multiple
organizations?
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Jon Miller wrote:
% % The webpage
installed
and just continue to update your own package list.
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. It would be nice it this could be included
in a future update to spacewalk-java package.
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[1]: https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/395093
--- /var/lib/rhn/kickstarts/snippets/keep_system_id.orig2013-08-22
16:49:52.0 -0700
+++ /var/lib/rhn/kickstarts/snippets
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On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:32:19 -0700 Jon Miller
joneb...@gmail.com wrote:
We have had a issue taking advantage of the Spacewalk profile
feature that allows you to preserve a system profile when
rebuilding a machine. (The Spacewalk Profile option
Re-connect
to my kernel boot
options.
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where the template would have included extra commands.
I guess my main question remains: What is the proper way to initiate a
kickstart from Spacewalk and associate a unique client and use the cobbler
variables defined?
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| less and then run a few lsof
strace commands on the hung process to see what is happening.
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klarmstro...@liberty.edu writes:
Hello all,
I have a kickstart file that works pretty good until it hits this one line:
cp -f /tmp/ks-pre.log* /mnt/sysimage/root/
My
Within your profile, go to Kickstart Details - Bare Metal Kickstart and
observe the URL shown there and use it for your ks= value.
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a procedure of deleting my /var/cache/rhn/repodata/channel
directories for my F18 channels and then used an API to trigger their
rebuild. That didn't work and now I'm hoping the list has a suggestion.
Any ideas?
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Il 03/02/2014 19:11, Jon Miller ha scritto:
Hello,
I have a Spacewalk proxy server setup and it is mostly working. I can
kickstart a machine and register the client through the proxy as
well. However, I can not assign any software channels to the registered
watching the packages that closely
during the sync, though. I guess you'll have to wait until that sync has
finished to confirm.
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[1]: http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.0/Fedora/
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how to accomplish what you're doing. You can set/add additional interface
information via cobbler CLI as well. Here is an example:
cobbler system edit --name=$NAME --interface=eth1 --ip-address=$IPADDR2
--subnet=255.255.255.0 --static=True
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, though I'm
not sure how to do that with PostgreSQL yet.
Before I get too crazy, I thought I'd ask folks here for advice.
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there an alternate SQL approach that can be taken? Or would
you
suspect something else is terrible wrong here?
Thanks,
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Setup Info: Running spacewalk-postgresql 2.0.1-1.el6 on a RHEL 6.4 machine
with 8 G of memory and PostgreSQL 8.4.13-1.el6_3.
Jon Miller joneb
Chris dmag...@gmail.com writes:
On 30/04/14 14:05, Jon Miller wrote:
Before asking for more disk space, I scheduled some down time to perform a
VACUUM FULL VERBOSE ANALYZE on my PostgreSQL database today along with
rebuilding all of my indexes in the DB. After bringing Spacewalk back up
share? That is
where my head is now but I've got more reading / learning to do before I
start introducing tuning changes.
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version 2.0.1-1 (spacewalk-postgresql)
Thanks for the interest,
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Paul Robert Marino prmari...@gmail.com writes:
Increase your working memory. Also increase your maintenance working
memory.
That will help but we need to know more details before we can help.
The exact specs of the box
and rhnPackageUpgradeArchCompat.pack )
Does PostgreSQL use pgsql_tmp space when queries can not be performed within
working memory?
Thanks again,
Jon Miller
Paul Robert Marino prmari...@gmail.com writes:
Try increasing taskomatics working memory. I had a similar issue recently
with taskomatic where
Chris dmag...@gmail.com writes:
On 04/05/14 10:29, Jon Miller wrote:
That's another fine suggestion though I still believe the issues were/are
still related to the actual SQL queries being ran. I completed my planned
routine last evening but just recreating the DB and reloading my backup
to
be installed for your particular activation key and have a %post section in
the RPM execute something for you.
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Jon Miller writes:
Would anyone like to help me rule in or out my Spacewalk setup as functional
or not? Just copy the attached script and run it with the name of your
Spacewalk server as the argument like:
./koan_test.sh spacewalk.example.com
It is designed to send requests to Spacewalk
a
client via a Proxy server. It issues two cobbler methods: ping
get_systems. If your system is like mine, the ping will work but the
get_systems request will hang indefinitely.
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Description: koan_test.sh
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| V | 4. |
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Jon Miller writes:
I am having a problem with cobbler requests via my proxy server. Machines
that use the proxy server can successfully proxy requests through for
channel / package information just fine. The problem seems isolated to only
/cobbler_api URL requests.
I've been testing via
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