Re: updated to 2.2.1 - can't import RHEL6.2

2012-01-11 Thread jehan procaccia
Good, I suppose you meant "cobbler replicate" ! however to do that I understand that cobblerd should be running on the original server. now that I broken my cobbler installation by upgrading to 2.3.1, I supose I first need to downgrade to 2.2.1 in order to be able from a fresh installed centos

Re: Automated network installation without access to main dhcp server?

2012-01-11 Thread alain
Michael, yhank you very much for the prompt answer. Michael DeHaan writes: > > The question: on my computer, is it possible to install cobbler so > > that I can perform fully automated network installations on my 50 > > stations without having access to that dhcp server? > By not having acc

CentOS 6.2 + Cobbler config issue...

2012-01-11 Thread Nathanial Byrnes
Hi All, I was getting the following exceptions in my apache error log with an out of the box (EPEL 6) installation of cobbler on CentOS 6.2 x86_64 running in an VirtualBox VM (if that should matter) that looked like: [Wed Jan 11 16:32:05 2012] [error] [client 192.168.56.4] Traceback (mos

Re: updated to 2.2.1 - can't import RHEL6.2

2012-01-11 Thread Michael DeHaan
"cobbler reposync" does exactly this. https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/wiki/Replication On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 4:31 PM, jehan procaccia wrote: > unfortunatly, there's no clean and secure way to upgrade (yum) from centos 5 > to 6, cf > https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtop

Re: updated to 2.2.1 - can't import RHEL6.2

2012-01-11 Thread jehan procaccia
unfortunatly, there's no clean and secure way to upgrade (yum) from centos 5 to 6, cf https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=32089 everywhere on centos site I see that the only clean way is to reinstall a centos6 from scratch I've got ~400Go of distribs+repos and hundreds of

Re: Automated network installation without access to main dhcp server?

2012-01-11 Thread Michael DeHaan
On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 4:11 PM, al...@geophysik.uni-muenchen.de wrote: > > Hello. > > I am in charge of ~50 GNU/Linux stations but I am not a real computer > guy and my general knowledge about the various issues related to > network installations (PXE, dhcp, tftp, etc.) is very p

Automated network installation without access to main dhcp server?

2012-01-11 Thread alain
Hello. I am in charge of ~50 GNU/Linux stations but I am not a real computer guy and my general knowledge about the various issues related to network installations (PXE, dhcp, tftp, etc.) is very poor, so although I spent days searching the Internet, I cannot find a definitive answer to the follo

Re: updated to 2.2.1 - can't import RHEL6.2

2012-01-11 Thread Jörgen Maas
Yes, I had this issue too. The problem is in python.. It's a known issue. I fixed it by upgrading to centos6... Op 11 jan. 2012 18:23 schreef "jehan procaccia" < jehan.procac...@it-sudparis.eu> het volgende: > > OK, I upgraded from 2.2.1 to 2.3.1 however now cobblerd doesn't start anymore :-( > > [

RE: Cobbler 2.2.1 not removing/signing puppet certs

2012-01-11 Thread Jim Goddard
In case someone else sees something similar, this appears to have been my fault. I am not certain how, but I mangled the SNIPPET line for the kickstart_start and kickstart_done lines in my templates. Somehow I ended up with: $kickstart_start ... $kickstart_done instead of: $SNIPPET('kickstart

Re: updated to 2.2.1 - can't import RHEL6.2

2012-01-11 Thread jehan procaccia
OK, I upgraded from 2.2.1 to 2.3.1 however now cobblerd doesn't start anymore :-( [root@cobbler ~]# /etc/init.d/cobblerd start Starting cobbler daemon: No module named ctypes Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/cobblerd", line 76, in main api = cobbler_api.BootAPI(is_cobblerd

Re: updated to 2.2.1 - can't import RHEL6.2

2012-01-11 Thread Michael DeHaan
File system info -- https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/wiki/File%20System%20Information You should be fine.Backing up /var/lib/cobbler is smart though, and pay attention to any .rpmnew files created. --Michael On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 10:41 AM, jehan procaccia wrote: > OK, I got

Re: updated to 2.2.1 - can't import RHEL6.2

2012-01-11 Thread jehan procaccia
OK, I got the latest source and made the rpms # ls cobbler-2.3.1-1.noarch.rpm koan-2.3.1-1.noarch.rpm cobbler-web-2.3.1-1.noarch.rpm My cobbler installation is running on a centos5.7 system # rpm -qa | grep -i cobbler cobbler-web-2.2.1-1.el5 cobbler-2.2.1-1.el5 can I blindly upgrade those p