Marcelo Giles wrote: > Pablo Iranzo Gómez wrote: > >> Ola Marcelo >> >> >> On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Marcelo Giles wrote: >> >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm running into a problem with cobbler on RHEL 5.2. and need help. >>> >>> I had my cobbler settings working with 3 distros and 3 profiles. >>> Everything worked fine, PXE boot of the machines, customized kickstart >>> files, etc. >>> >>> After I updated cobbler (via Epel) to latest version >>> (cobbler-1.0.3-1.el5), my clients no longer PXE boot. >>> >>> I mean, they boot into PXE, but tftp times out without reaching the >>> default cobbler Menu where yo can select the profile. >>> >>> After several tries I gave up, uninstalled cobbler and erased all config >>> files. I reinstalled and started from scratch but no luck. >>> >>> I read the mailing list archives and googled a bit but found nothing >>> useful. Any hints? TIA. >>> >> Can you check any issues with firewall? ethereal may help ;) >> >> Check specially network settings, I have that setup with RHEL 5.2 >> working ok. >> >> Regards >> Pablo >> >> > Hi Pablo, > > I've found the culprit: libvirtd. > > You see, this cobbler host is also a xen host. > > The dhcp server for cobbler was setup using dhcpd, thus the > "next-server" and "filename" options are configured in /etc/dhcpd.conf. > > Being a xen host, it is running libvirtd, therefore this host was > running the dnsmasq dhcp server as well. > > I suspected this when I run netstat on it and found two lines with port > udp 67 listed. Two dhcp servers! > > After I run service libvirtd stop, the client could connect and got to > the menu with no problems. > > Weird thing is that this configuration was running as is with an older > version of cobbler. Oh well, who knows... > > Now I have a new problem that I'll post in a new message, so we don't > mix things up. > > Thank you. > > Marcelo > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >
Actually this is probably a good thing for cobbler check to look for. Making an RFE for this... _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
