Cobbler version 1.6.5 I was building a system with Cobbler yesterday when kickstart failed. While investigating, I noticed that the Cobbler daemon was down and would not re-start. Since this had happened once before, I was able to narrow it down quickly. The configuration file of the system being built was zero bytes. I deleted it and was able to restart Cobbler.
I stepped through my kickstart and compared it with the newly built system. The fault occurred near the very end of the %post section where I call $kickstart_done which translates into: wget "http://XXX.encs.concordia.ca/cblr/svc/op/nopxe/system/YYY"; -O /dev/null wget "http://XXX.encs.concordia.ca/cblr/svc/op/ks/system/YYY"; -O /root/cobbler.ks wget "http://XXX.encs.concordia.ca/cblr/svc/op/trig/mode/post/system/YYY"; -O /dev/null I don't know which of these failed, but I suspect it's the "nopxe" trigger since it would be writing to this system's configuration file. I've been using this setup quite a bit and I have run into this problem only once before. It's not a problem with disk space -- there's about 100G free. I wasn't accessing cobbler at the time either. There isn't much in the cobbler logs, either, just a message in install.log stating the start time for this system. Nothing in either cobbler.log or cobblerd.log. I'm planning to upgrade to the latest 1.6.X release soon; not sure if I am ready to switch to just 2.0.X yet. -- Chris O'Regan <[email protected]> Senior Unix Systems Administrator, Academic IT Services Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science Concordia University, Montreal, Canada _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
