On 06/08/2012 03:50 PM, Greg Swift wrote: > On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Greg Swift <gregsw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Dan Rao <dhana...@cs.wisc.edu> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I upgraded my Cobbler install to 2.2.3-1.el6 (from epel-testing) last >>> night. >>> >>> Interestingly, when I run cobbler sync, only machines that have netboot >>> enabled get entries in my dhcpd.conf. >>> >>> The offending line(s) appear to be in >>> /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/modules/manage_isc.py - lines >>> 164-165 >>> >>> ---- >>> if not interface["netboot_enabled"]: >>> continue >>> ---- >>> >>> (This is in the section that generates the ISC dhcpd config file). >>> >>> >>> I commented those lines out to get my server back, but I was curious as >>> to why that was there in the first place. >>> >>> Any insight would be appreciated! >> >> It appears that this was added to prevent ppc64 reboot loops. >> https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/commit/bc76631ea158c76b1cdc8d3af28c9dcb35e17bcf >> >> I know that we had the potential for reboot loops even on regular x86 >> hardware, but we dealt with it without code change. Our systems boot >> harddrive then netboot. So on initial install they netboot, once >> there is an OS they regular boot. If you need to re-install you >> either use koan or function key to select network boot at boot time. >> >> That being said, our systems also turn static post-install, so this >> change would not affect us. However, if we ran off DHCP period we >> would have the same issue you are experiencing with this. >> >> Maybe the better check would be: >> >> if not interface["netboot_enabled"] and interface['static']: >> continue >> >> ? > > also, might be good to file it as a bug on github?
Will do. I've been meaning to get started contributing to the project anyways (we use IPv6 heavily and have some enhancements to Cobbler in that area)...this is a good push to get me off my rear! Best, Dan _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
