Re: F14 cobbler daemon

2010-11-21 Thread Beartooth
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 22:08:25 -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Beartooth wrote: [] >> Also, what is a good way (if there is one, short of removing cobbler) >> to get to the next item?? > It may be worth hitting 'i' at boot when it says something like "press > 'i' for interactive boot" a

Re: F14 cobbler daemon

2010-11-20 Thread Todd Zullinger
Beartooth wrote: > The description in PackageKit (which I had to go through in unusual > detail, because only the LiveCD had succeeded in installing F14) > made it sound (to me) like a thing to try. Fair enough, I suppose. Cobbler is really cool stuff, if you're interested in automating the provi

Re: F14 cobbler daemon

2010-11-20 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/20/2010 04:01 PM, Beartooth wrote: > How do you know it completed? That upper case sure looked like an > urgent warning to me I don't remember, at this point, what the message was, but I've seen them complain that something that ended with [OK] had failed. If it got to the poin

Re: F14 cobbler daemon

2010-11-20 Thread Beartooth
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 10:59:15 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 11/20/2010 10:43 AM, Todd Zullinger wrote: >> Are you even using cobbler? It is a provisioning tool, to automate the >>setup of PXE booting for bare-metal and virt system installs. If not, >> why do you have it installed and enabled?

Re: F14 cobbler daemon

2010-11-20 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/20/2010 10:43 AM, Todd Zullinger wrote: > It also sounds to me like cobbler is not your problem. If the system > boot message show it starting and returning ok, then it's likely > something after that which is halting your boot up. Exactly. People tend to blame the last item listed, even t

Re: F14 cobbler daemon

2010-11-20 Thread Todd Zullinger
Beartooth wrote: >> Run >> rpm -q --filesbypkg cobbler >> to find where all the files are. > > Ye gods & little fishes! Are you even using cobbler? It is a provisioning tool, to automate the setup of PXE booting for bare-metal and virt system installs. If not, why do you have it installed

Re: F14 cobbler daemon

2010-11-20 Thread Beartooth
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:29:12 -0700, stan wrote: > On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:10:59 + (UTC) Beartooth > wrote: [] > What is to be done? > How about, as root, > chkconfig cobblerd off OK; did that. > The next time it boots, cobbler won't start, so the error won't occu

Re: F14 cobbler daemon

2010-11-19 Thread stan
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:10:59 + (UTC) Beartooth wrote: > > On an oldish machine (Dell PowerEdge SC1420, *not being used > as a server), boot messages look fairly unremarkable, till one saying > "Starting cobbler daemon: SERVING!" -- which is called OK -- after > which booting stops. >

F14 cobbler daemon

2010-11-19 Thread Beartooth
On an oldish machine (Dell PowerEdge SC1420, *not being used as a server), boot messages look fairly unremarkable, till one saying "Starting cobbler daemon: SERVING!" -- which is called OK -- after which booting stops. The machine can be ssh'd into, and I've done a yum update o