cobbler 2.4.0 - centos 6.4 - No signature matched

[mkrakowitzer]

cobbler 2.4.0

cobbler import --path=/mnt/centos64 --name=centos-server-6.4
task started: 2013-03-18_120054_import
task started (id=Media import, time=Mon Mar 18 12:00:54 2013)
Found a candidate signature: breed=redhat, version=rhel6
Found a candidate signature: breed=redhat, version=fedora16
Found a candidate signature: breed=redhat, version=fedora17
Found a candidate signature: breed=redhat, version=fedora18
No signature matched in /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/centos-server-6.4
!!! TASK FAILED !!!

I am getting the above error when trying to import the centos 6.4 ISO. All prior versions of centos import properly.

I attempted to to replace the /var/lib/cobbler/distro_signatures.json with the latest on github but that does not seem to work. I can not run a cobbler signature update as my environment is heavily firewalled.

Any suggestions?

[jimi-c]

The signature update just grabs the latest one from the web. Downloading it manually and copying it into place serves the same purpose, however you must restart cobblerd after doing so.

Can you verify whether you restarted cobblerd after updating the signature or not?

If so, you can still attempt to manually fix the json to search for the proper files. For RHEL/CentOS, it looks first for the "Packages" directory in the root of the ISO. In your case, it is finding that as it is identifying candidates for import. Next, it uses the version_file string (which is a regex pattern) to identify a file that will give the appropriate version - this is where it is failing. The name of the file should be something like centos-release-6-4-... Looking at a public mirror, it looks like that should work fine:

$ python 
>>> import re
>>> fname="centos-release-6-4.el6.centos.10.x86_64.rpm"
>>> re.compile("(redhat|sl|centos)-release-(?!notes)([\\w]*-)*6[\\.-]+(.*)\\.rpm").match(fname).groups()
('centos', None, '4.el6.centos.10.x86_64')

Can you verify that the centos-release RPM is in your packages directory, and that it works with the above code snippet?

[mkrakowitzer]

Thanks

restarting cobblerd did the trick. Sorry for wasting your time :/

[jimi-c]

No problem at all.