Description of problem: When trying to provision a RHEL 6.6.2 system from within the RHN Satellite web GUI, and using file preservatino in the kickstart profile used for the provisiong an error occurs: D: Sending back response(2, 'Error creating the new RAM disk', {'status': 2, 'stderr': '\ngzip: /boot/initrd.img: not in gzip format\n/usr/sbin/merge-rd.sh: line 54: return: -1: invalid option\nreturn: usage: return [n]\n', 'stdout': ''}) This is due to the fact that the initrd.img in RHEL 6.6.2 isn't in gzip format anymore. The /usr/sbin/merge-rd.sh doesn't refelect this change to the initrd.img yet. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): spacewalk-koan-0.2.7-9.el6sat.noarch How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Creat a kickstart profile with a RHEL 6.6.2 Kickstart tree (i.e. ks-rhel-x86_64-server-6-6.2) 2. Enable file preservation for this kickstart profile 3. Provision a system with this kickstart profile Actual results: The provisioning fails with error: Client execution returned "Error creating the new RAM disk" (code 2) Expected results: Successful provisioning of the system Additional info: I have an open customer case about this issue. Case Nr.00634224
We are already tracking the fact that in RHEL 6.2 this format changed, breaking us. bug 796466 is currently ON_QA and should be out within the next weeks via an errata, in the RHN Tools channels. Regards, Cliff *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 796466 ***