6.2. getimage fails with a "Failed to retrieve /etc/systemimager/mounted_filesystems from <golden client>" message.

Two known issues cause this error:

  1. Your firewall may be blocking the rsync port. Some Red Hat releases (and possibly other distributions) provide firewall rules as part of a default installation. The ipchains and iptables utilities have a -L that will print a list of active rules.

  2. rsync relies on the ability to do a reverse lookup of the remote machine. If you don't have reverse DNS setup in your cluster, you can add entries for each machine in your cluster to the /etc/hosts file on each machine. (Adding an entry for your image server in your golden client's /etc/hosts file should be sufficient for using getimage.