Bug 211494 - system-config-netboot and pxeos are broken
Summary: system-config-netboot and pxeos are broken
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: system-config-netboot
Version: 4.4
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Jaroslav Reznik
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-10-19 18:18 UTC by Clay Stuckey
Modified: 2010-04-06 10:51 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-04-06 10:51:11 UTC
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Description Clay Stuckey 2006-10-19 18:18:25 UTC
Description of problem:
Both the GUI system-config-netboot and the shell command pxeos have a bug. The 
GUI stalls after populating the PXE server information. The pxeos command 
gives an error

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
system-config-netboot-0.1.40-1_EL4.i386.rp

How reproducible:
very

Steps to Reproduce:
1. type: pxeos -a -D 0 --server redhatdev --location /sources/ -p NFS RHEL-ES
2. hit <enter>
3. see error
  
Actual results:
[root@redhatdev linux-install]# pxeos -a -D 0 --server redhatdev --
location /sources/ -p NFS RHEL-ES
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/pxeos", line 571, in ?
    pxeoslist.saveOSList(pxelist)
  File "/usr/sbin/pxeos", line 97, in saveOSList
    bootFD=open("%s/msgs/boot.msg" % PXEBOOTDIR,"w")
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tftpboot/linux-
install//msgs/boot.msg'

Expected results:
creation of pxe boot tree under /tftpboot

Additional info:

I uninstalled this version and installed system-config-netboot-0.1.38-
1.noarch.rpm from FC5. That fixed my problem. From looking at the error, you 
see two / characters (tftpboot/linux-install//msgs/boot.msg) This makes me 
think that it is looking for another variable. The man page did not show 
anything about other variables needed.

Comment 1 Radek Brich 2008-01-28 16:30:11 UTC
Hi, sorry for really long response time...

I'm trying to reproduce this error, but without any success, it works just fine
for me.

Doubled slash should not be an issue, that generally works. Just try "cat
/tftpboot/linux-install//msgs/boot.msg", it should really display a snake (if
the package is installed properly).

Is the issue still actual or should I just close the bug?


Comment 3 Jaroslav Reznik 2010-04-06 10:51:11 UTC
As there is now response from reporter, it was working for previous maintainer and the bug is old, I'm closing this bug as NOTABUG.


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