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 at 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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >Scot P. Floess RHCT (Certificate Number 605010084735240) Chief Architect FlossWare http://sourceforge.net/projects/flossware http://flossware.sourceforge.net https://github.com/organizations/FlossWare
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, m.roth at 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 <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/
Paul Heinlein wrote:> On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, m.roth at 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." <snip> Well, it's morning, and I looked in the webserver log, and found[Mon Jul 11 17:14:22 2011] [error] [...] File does not exist: /.../CentOS/base/6/os/x86_64/images/updates.img [Mon Jul 11 17:14:22 2011] [error] [...] File does not exist: /.../CentOS/base/6/os/x86_64/images/product.img I've mounted both the netinstall and DVD 1 isos, and they neither file exists on them. Should I assume that these .iso's are unreliable, and d/l newer ones? mark