[Bug 827496] Re: cobbler kickstart metadata dont affect ubuntu preseed

Andres Rodriguez andreserl at ubuntu-pe.org
Wed Sep 28 02:16:12 UTC 2011


Hi Ronen,

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and trying to make
Ubuntu better. I work with kickstart meta-data various times a day and I
have not been able to reproduce your bug report.

Can you please give me a little bit of more information to be able to reproduce it as I was unable to? Information such as:
- Are you using profiles or systems?
- Are you modifying correctly the preseed to use the kickstart meta-data?
- are you viewing the preseed by directly opening the file, or by viewing it through cobbler?


I have to tried to reproduce this but without success by doing the following:

sudo cobbler profile edit --name oneiric-i386  --ksmeta="user=testing"

Then I did the lines you list above to the preseed, and executed the
following command to see the preseed that the machine that PXe's will
use:

sudo cobbler profile getks --name oneiric-i386

and the result was the following:

ubuntu at cobbler:~$ sudo cobbler profile getks --name oneiric-4-i386
d-i base-installer/kernel/image string linux-generic
d-i passwd/root-login boolean false
d-i passwd/make-user boolean true
d-i passwd/user-fullname string testing

Which means the kickstart meta-data has been evaluated correctly. The
same happens when doing this on systems instead of profiles.

This actually would invalidate this bug report. Please, it would be
helpful if you would be able to provide the requested information.

Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug.

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