[cobbler] error saving profile

Orion Poplawski orion at cora.nwra.com
Tue Aug 12 16:51:51 UTC 2014


On 08/12/2014 05:28 AM, Newman, Stuart J. (GSFC-444.0)[HONEYWELL TECHNOLOGY 
SOLUTIONS INC] wrote:
> Cobbler 6.4, RHEL 6.5

What does "Cobbler 6.4" mean?  rpm -q cobbler should get you the version you 
are using.

>
> When I attempt to save a profile, I get:
>
> An error has occurred. You may find more information in
> /var/log/cobbler/cobbler.log on the server should this error not be
> self-explanatory.
>
> <Fault 1: "<type 'exceptions.IOError'>:[Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/var/lib/tftpboot/boot/grub/menu.lst
>
> This did not occur on Cobbler 6.1, nor does it occur with SELinux set to
> permissive.

Stock EL6 selinux-policy does not label /var/lib/tftpboot/boot/(.*) correctly. 
  For now, do:

chcon -R -t cobbler_var_lib_t /var/lib/tftpboot/boot


I've filed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1129406

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