Well, I started the install, got pxeboot to get to the kickstart file, formatted the drive... and then it failed, telling me "unable to read group information from repositories. This is a problem with the generation of your install tree."
A quick google gives me the first hit from a year ago, bug 4372 http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4372, which says there's a metadata problem. Has anyone else run into this today?
mark
Not sure this is related... I just Cobbler-ified and Puppet-ized for CentOS 6... One thing I had in Cobbler was that I pointed to addons - which doesn't look like it exists in 6. I looked in 5.6 and noted nothing there...so I dropped addons as a repo in 6.
All my VMs are installing correctly now for what its worth...
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Well, I started the install, got pxeboot to get to the kickstart file, formatted the drive... and then it failed, telling me "unable to read group information from repositories. This is a problem with the generation of your install tree."
A quick google gives me the first hit from a year ago, bug 4372 http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4372, which says there's a metadata problem. Has anyone else run into this today?
mark
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FWIW, I have this problem with 5.6.
Are you installing from a local repo? If you are, try rsyncing the repo again. See if it changes the repodata files at all.
I have yet to find why my repodata files are changing for the main repo (I didn't build our original repo servers, there are a bunch of random scripts that run that were created by a previous admin), but re-syncing the repos seems to stop that error from popping up during a kickstart.
On 07/11/2011 04:32 PM, Scot P. Floess wrote:
Not sure this is related... I just Cobbler-ified and Puppet-ized for CentOS 6... One thing I had in Cobbler was that I pointed to addons - which doesn't look like it exists in 6. I looked in 5.6 and noted nothing there...so I dropped addons as a repo in 6.
All my VMs are installing correctly now for what its worth...
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Well, I started the install, got pxeboot to get to the kickstart file, formatted the drive... and then it failed, telling me "unable to read group information from repositories. This is a problem with the generation of your install tree."
A quick google gives me the first hit from a year ago, bug 4372 http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4372, which says there's a metadata problem. Has anyone else run into this today?
mark
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On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Well, I started the install, got pxeboot to get to the kickstart file, formatted the drive... and then it failed, telling me "unable to read group information from repositories. This is a problem with the generation of your install tree."
A quick google gives me the first hit from a year ago, bug 4372 http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4372, which says there's a metadata problem. Has anyone else run into this today?
I've PXE booted 64-bit CentOS 6 without any trouble. (I haven't tried the 32-bit installer yet.)
Are you using a local repository? Perhaps the source from which you downloaded/rsynced it was in an unstable state.
Paul Heinlein wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Well, I started the install, got pxeboot to get to the kickstart file, formatted the drive... and then it failed, telling me "unable to read group information from repositories. This is a problem with the generation of your install tree."
A quick google gives me the first hit from a year ago, bug 4372 http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4372, which says there's a metadata problem. Has anyone else run into this today?
I've PXE booted 64-bit CentOS 6 without any trouble. (I haven't tried the 32-bit installer yet.)
Are you using a local repository? Perhaps the source from which you downloaded/rsynced it was in an unstable state.
Yep. My manager d/l it; I found after I posted that he hadn't done a makerepo. Did that, no joy. Then the other admin here tells me I needed to do it with a file called comps.xml, which the repository that our manager sync'd from didn't have. He got that, I reran the createrepo w/ -g, and still no joy.
Time for me to get out of here, and pick it up in the morning.
mark
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Are you using a local repository? Perhaps the source from which you downloaded/rsynced it was in an unstable state.
Yep. My manager d/l it; I found after I posted that he hadn't done a makerepo. Did that, no joy. Then the other admin here tells me I needed to do it with a file called comps.xml, which the repository that our manager sync'd from didn't have. He got that, I reran the createrepo w/ -g, and still no joy.
Time for me to get out of here, and pick it up in the morning.
Try using mrepo from RPMForge. All you need to do is to configure it and let it do all the work. Yell if you need help configuring it.
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