[cobbler] Cannot get everything started on a new buildout

Dan White ygor at comcast.net
Wed Mar 13 00:20:07 UTC 2013


I got up on IRC this morning and James helped me figure out that the file “cobbler.conf” was messed up.
He gave me a link to the GitHub version of the file and I am now up and running.

Thanks again, James.

On Mar 11, 2013, at 3:25 PM, Dan White wrote:

> I have two Cobbler Servers - one old one I set up almost two years ago, and another one I am currently trying to build from scratch.
> 
> The problem is that I cannot get the new one started up properly.
> 
> Cobbler 2.2.3 on 64 bit RHEL 5
> 
> Here are some of the problems:
> 
> I am not using RHEL's httpd due to local practice of having multiple "stove-pipe" web stacks on each server.
> 
> The apache instance is in /opt/site/cobbler/data/apache  instead of /var/www
> On the old Cobbler, I used RHEL-httpd and sym-linked /var/www/(cobbler/cobbler_webui_content) to another partition.
> 
> On the old one, I was running everything from the hardware IP
> On the new one, I am using a vhost
> 
> On the old one, netstat says I have one httpd listening on <host-ip>:80, and one listening on 0.0.0.0:443
> On the new one, I have one httpd listening on <host-ip>:80, and one listening on <host-ip>:443
> 
> Both have a listener on 127.0.0.1:25151 (python)
> 
> The first problem is that everything works on the old one and on the new one, I get this:
> 
> [root ~]# cobbler sync
> httpd does not appear to be running and proxying cobbler, or SELinux is in the way. Original traceback:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/cli.py", line 184, in check_setup
>     s.ping()
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1096, in __call__
>     return self.__send(self.__name, args)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1383, in __request
>     verbose=self.__verbose
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1137, in request
>     headers
> ProtocolError: <ProtocolError for 10.1.1.134:80/cobbler_api: 302 Found>
> 
> From the other end, the Web UI comes up but I cannot get past the login screen and I see no errors in the logs.
> 
> 
> “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
> Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes)
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