It would appear this issue was only due to the initrd argument being passed as `initrd` rather than `--initrd` Cobbler distro add appears to run, but the hard links are not created and the distro is not added. Oops.
Only --name is a required option, but if --kernel or --initrd are omitted, adding the distro basically silently fails it seems. Pete On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Pete Eby <[email protected]> wrote: > Howdy, > > Though I've installed Cobbler several times in different environments, > usually with little issue, I've run into a snag which I'm having > trouble working out. > > I'm running cobbler-2.0.11-2.el6.noarch and (cobbler-web) from EPEL on > RHEL 6.1 and I can't seem to be able to add a distro. > > When I run: > > cobbler distro add --breed=redhat --name=CentOS-5.6-32bit > --kernel=/var/lib/tftpboot/distros/CentOS5.6-32bit/vmlinuz > initrd=/var/lib/tftpboot/distros/CentOS5.6-32bit/initrd.img > > No error is sent to std out, but then when I do a cobbler distro list, > no results are returned. > > Looking at the log I see: > > Tue Jul 26 09:22:50 2011 - INFO | REMOTE new_item(distro); user(<DIRECT>) > raise CX("internal error, unknown %s name %s" % (what,name)) > File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/remote.py", line > 633, in get_item_handle > handle = self.get_item_handle(object_type, object_name) > File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/remote.py", line 798, > in xapi_object_edit > Tue Jul 26 09:22:50 2011 - INFO | Exception Info: > Tue Jul 26 09:22:50 2011 - INFO | Exception value: 'internal error, > unknown distro name CentOS-5.6-32bit' > Tue Jul 26 09:22:50 2011 - INFO | Exception occured: <class > 'cobbler.cexceptions.CX'> > Tue Jul 26 09:22:50 2011 - DEBUG | get_item; ['distro', 'CentOS-5.6-32bit'] > Tue Jul 26 09:22:50 2011 - DEBUG | REMOTE CLI Authorized; user(?) > > I've tried some variations, but get the above in all cases. > > Any suggestion would by much appreciated. > > Thank you, > Pete > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
