Re: [Spacewalk-list] Issues with SLES 11 SP3 - NOKEY and Support level

2015-10-10 Thread Reed, Steven
Mattias is correct when used with spacewalk zypper uses the --no-gpgkeys option. Remove the gpg info. -Original Message- From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mattias Giese Sent: Saturday, 10 October 2015 8:17 PM To:

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Centos 6 Installation Error - missing packages

2015-09-09 Thread Reed, Steven
As you recently removed older packages from previous 6.x versions the kernel/initrd and files are incorrect for 6.7 and cannot find these versions. Try downloading the correct kernel/initrd filelist etc from the 6.7 http/rsync repository if those are the packages you have in your channel

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Systems Overview Slow for +1k Instances

2015-09-09 Thread Reed, Steven
The systems query is very intensive on the DB. How is your oracle db server performing. Also you may want to add more vcpu vram to the spacewalk server or increase the number of db connections. Out of curiousity why have so many proxies ? i’m surprised your master returns that query at all

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Problems with packages_cleanup.sh

2015-09-09 Thread Reed, Steven
Don't use that shell script, it's really old and slow. This python script works well on 2.2+ (Sorry I don't have a url for it right now) -- # usage: spacewalk-remove-old-packages.py [options] # # options: # -h, --helpshow this help message and exit # -s SPW_SERVER,

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk on SuSE?

2015-07-16 Thread Reed, Steven
Hi, Have not stood it up on SLES but it is possible to use spacewalk running on Centos to manage/deploy SLES, opensuse etc. Assuming that's your end goal. There is a bit of messing round with the kickstart/autoyast files to get them to work and you need to modify some parts of cobbler.

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Change Hostname of WebUI

2015-07-13 Thread Reed, Steven
Hi, Did anyone find an answer to this ? to change a CLIENTs hostname from the client itself. apart from having a shell script ask the hostname question ? The only other way I've done it, is to add the MAC address and hostname in to a DHCP reservation but that's not fun when deploying multiple

Re: [Spacewalk-list] SLES 11 SP3 channels show Content Provider as unknown

2014-10-16 Thread Reed, Steven
Can you confirm the the url you are using is valid to sync from sles repo ? Blow away the channel recreate then resync the repo.. Works fine here. -Original Message- From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Tomas Lestach Sent:

Re: [Spacewalk-list] New install, no graphics

2014-10-16 Thread Reed, Steven
netstat –tpln what else is running on your box ? reinstall on a fresh vm/box From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Reneau, Wes W [HDS] Sent: Thursday, 16 October 2014 11:19 PM To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list]

Re: [Spacewalk-list] kickstart tree after repo sync using

2014-10-08 Thread Reed, Steven
Download the latest ISO image for centos 6 Mount that iso to somewhere Cd to the mounted dir find . ! -path ./Packages/* | cpio -pvd /path/to/centos-6_64 (your new KS dir create channel, activation key and bind spacewalk-repo-sync -c centos6-x86_64 Create new KS profile Repeat for updates,

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Not able to take Postgres Backup

2014-09-26 Thread Reed, Steven
Is postgres running? “pg_dumpall: could not connect to database template1: could not connect to serv er: No such file or directory Is the server running locally and accepting connections on

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Kickstarts disappearing after reboot not working

2014-05-29 Thread Reed, Steven
preserved in /var/lib/rhn/kickstarts/wizard/ and /var/lib/rhn/kickstarts/snippets/1/ Alex On 29 May 2014 02:32, Reed, Steven steven.r...@transport.nsw.gov.aumailto:steven.r...@transport.nsw.gov.au wrote: Hi All, Recently we started deploying spacewalk 2.1 as a clean install instead

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Kickstarts disappearing after reboot not working

2014-05-29 Thread Reed, Steven
5.6 for RHEL, and they’re not disappearing there either. Do you get the kickstart tree from CentOS, Fedora or somewhere else? See Ya’ Howard Coles Jr. From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.commailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Reed

[Spacewalk-list] Kickstarts disappearing after reboot not working

2014-05-28 Thread Reed, Steven
Hi All, Recently we started deploying spacewalk 2.1 as a clean install instead of upgrading from 1.9. Things seemed to work ok until we did a yum update on the spacewalk server about 2 weeks ago then kickstarts stopped working and would disappear completely after a reboot. Trawling through

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.1 - Upload kickstart file fails

2014-04-27 Thread Reed, Steven
To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.1 - Upload kickstart file fails Have you tried to visit the url of the kickstart directly (not through the interface just directly), it sometimes tells you more information On 24 April 2014 06:27, Reed, Steven steven.r

[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.1 - Upload kickstart file fails

2014-04-23 Thread Reed, Steven
Hi All, Am attempting to migrate from 1.9 to 2.1 all seems OK but when trying to upload a kickstart file (xml) spacewalk fires out: There are errors in your kickstart template. Please check the 'Kickstart File' tab to determine the problem with the template Investigating the 'kickstart file'

Re: [Spacewalk-list] anyway to deal with SLES

2014-01-12 Thread Reed, Steven
You don't need to use a SMT server. At least not with version 1.9.2.0 should still be ok.. As long as you have a novell userid and password you can create a repo as you normally would using something like: https://username:passw...@nu.novell.com/repo/$RCE/SLE11-HAE-SP3-Pool/sle-11-x86_64/

[Spacewalk-list] SLES connected to spacewalk through rhn client but can't access repository

2013-06-04 Thread Reed, Steven
This was working but after a few kickstarts it would not update packages from the Web interface or by running rhn_check or by using zipper. I saw a previous post on the list where someone had a similar problem but their resolution was to upgrade from spacewalk 1.7 to 1.8. I am currently

Re: [Spacewalk-list] SLES connected to spacewalk through rhn client but can't access repository

2013-06-04 Thread Reed, Steven
error then rebuilt as per usual Client was then able to receive updates from spacewalk. Regards, Steve -Original Message- From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Reed, Steven Sent: Wednesday, 5 June 2013 11:37 AM To: 'spacewalk

Re: [Spacewalk-list] SLES kickstart/autoyast on Spacewalk 1.9

2013-05-09 Thread Reed, Steven
I wonder does anyone have a suggestion to this problem? Bar installing Suse manager.. Regards, Steve -Original Message- From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Reed, Steven Sent: Tuesday, 7 May 2013 11:21 AM To: 'spacewalk-list

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Duplicate packages in Channel causing Centos 5.9 kickstart to fail

2013-05-09 Thread Reed, Steven
. Another member on this list helped me out and perhaps it'll help you too. See the following message thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/spacewalk-list@redhat.com/msg11876.html Good luck, Jon Miller On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Reed, Steven steven.r...@transport.nsw.gov.aumailto:steven.r

Re: [Spacewalk-list] SLES kickstart/autoyast on Spacewalk 1.9

2013-05-06 Thread Reed, Steven
DVD iso and has the Kernel Option a value like install=http://FQDN of spacewalk/ks/dist/distribution label ? Am Mittwoch, 1. Mai 2013, 14:33:02 schrieb Reed, Steven: Hi All, I have spacewalk 1.9 running fine with centos/fedora/redhat we've recently aquired a dept who run SLES servers. I can

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Duplicate packages in Channel causing Centos 5.9 kickstart to fail

2013-05-01 Thread Reed, Steven
30, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Reed, Steven steven.r...@transport.nsw.gov.aumailto:steven.r...@transport.nsw.gov.au wrote: This was working but then all of a sudden kickstarts would bomb out on Centos 5.9 installs. Further research yielded that there was a duplicate package in the centos 5 channel

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Duplicate packages in Channel causing Centos 5.9 kickstart to fail

2013-05-01 Thread Reed, Steven
to be sure you're using the same URL and then look in further logs for further clues. -- Jon Miller 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.el5.noarch.rpm but I can download

[Spacewalk-list] SLES kickstart/autoyast on Spacewalk 1.9

2013-04-30 Thread Reed, Steven
Hi All, I have spacewalk 1.9 running fine with centos/fedora/redhat we've recently aquired a dept who run SLES servers. I can register them ok but cannot get them kickstart. Tried converting the KS file to XML and uploading that but it just hangs after booting from the tftp server at 'insert

[Spacewalk-list] Duplicate packages in Channel causing Centos 5.9 kickstart to fail

2013-04-30 Thread Reed, Steven
This was working but then all of a sudden kickstarts would bomb out on Centos 5.9 installs. Further research yielded that there was a duplicate package in the centos 5 channel. I've tried removing one or the other and both then trying to resync but this error persists... Any suggestions