Installation guide

# cobbler check

The following potential problems were detected:

#0: reposync is not installed, need for cobbler reposync, install/upgrade

yum-utils?

#1: yumdownloader is not installed, needed for cobbler repo add with --rpm-

list parameter, install/upgrade yum-utils?

#2: The default password used by the sample tem plates for newly installed

machines (default_password_crypted in /etc/cobbler/settings) is still set to

'cobbler' and should be changed

#3: fencing tools were not found, and are required to use the (optional) power

management features. install cm an to use them

If cobbler check does not provide any answers, check the following:

Verify httpd is running: service httpd status

Verify cobblerd is running: service cobblerd status

Verify that you can fetch the kickstart file using wget from a different host:

wget http://satellite.example.com/cblr/svc/op/ks/profile/rhel5-i386-

u3:1:Example-Org

I'm getting a package installation error that says T he file chkconfig-1.3.30.1-

2.i386.rpm cannot be opened. What is the problem and how do I fix it?

Clients will fetch content from Red Hat Satellite based on the --url parameter in the kickstart. For

example:

url --url http://satellite.example.com/ks/dist/ks-rhel-i386-server-5-u3

If you receive errors from Anaconda stating it can't find images or packages, check that the URL in

the kickstart will generate a 200 OK response. You can do this by attempting to wget the file

located at that URL:

wget http://satellite.example.com/ks/dist/ks-rhel-i386-server-5-u3

--2011-08-19 15:06:55-- http://satellite.example.com /ks/dist/ks-rhel-i386-

server-5-u3

Resolving satellite.example.com ... 10.10.77.131

Connecting to satellite.example.com |10.10.77.131|:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: 0 [text/plain]

Saving to: `ks-rhel-i386-server-5-u3.1'

2011-08-19 15:06:55 (0.00 B/s) - `ks-rhel-i386-server-5-u3.1' saved [0/0]

If you get a response other than 200 OK, check the error logs to find out what the problem is. You

can also check the actual file Anaconda tried to download by searching the access_log file:

Chapter 5. Troubleshooting