> As I recall from before you are using a non-RPM installed version of > Cobbler so that you could put /var/lib/cobbler on some other partion? > What are the details regarding that again?
That's correct. Basically, I have run "sed" against the source code to replace hard-coded paths to ensure that Cobbler references everything from inside our own software tree. While I did encounter some problems with my tinkering in the past, the software is now working as expected, aside from this problem, that is. > The most likely cause is that cobblerd somehow crashed while updating > the state file. There are various checks in place to make sure invalid > contents don't cause problems, so I'm not sure what might be causing > this. Is /var/lib/cobbler on NFS or something, or could the system have > run out of memory? I heeded the warning concerning NFS and locking. All of the areas where Cobbler writes are on local disk. Distros, kickstart files, and snippets are kept on NFS so that my both of my Cobbler servers can access them easily. I also wanted to use file system ACLs so we can manage cobbler without requiring the root, and ACLs do not work over NFS in our current setup. As for memory, the server has 8G and its processes are mostly I/O bound (i.e. httpd, rsync, cfserv and cobblerd). As much as this sounds like a resource problem, I don't think it is. > And yes, reporting items with the latest dot release is pretty much > requirement a reproducibility as problems of various sorts may have > already been resolved -- 2.0 is still in testing for the next week or so. If I find some time today, I will try running the "nopxe" trigger manually to see if I can cause it to crash. If I can figure out how to reproduce this on cue it will at least help pinpoint where the problem lies. Right now I need to get my primary Cobbler server back online. Thanks. -- 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
