[et-mgmt-tools] cobbler

[Rick Vinyard]

That was it, and it's fixed.

Thanks.

On 6/8/07, Michael DeHaan <mdehaan at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Rick Vinyard wrote:
> > Upgrade from FC-6 to F-7.
> >
> > On 6/7/07, *Michael DeHaan* <mdehaan at redhat.com
> > <mailto:mdehaan at redhat.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Rick Vinyard wrote:
> >     > Tried cobbler rpms 0.4.8-1 and 0.4.7-5 with identical results.
> >     >
> >     > $ mount -o loop F-7-x86_64-DVD.iso tmpmount
> >     > $ cobbler import --name=F-7-x86_64 --mirror=tmpmount
> >     > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >     >   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line
> >     > 636, in main
> >     >     BootCLI(sys.argv).run()
> >     >   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py",
> >     line 37,
> >     > in __init__
> >     >     self.api = api.BootAPI()
> >     >   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line
> >     41, in
> >     > __init__
> >     >     self.deserialize()
> >     >   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line
> >     171, in
> >     > deserialize
> >     >     return self._config.deserialize()
> >     >   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cobbler/config.py",
> >     line 158,
> >     > in deserialize
> >     >     if not serializer.deserialize(x):
> >     >   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cobbler/serializer.py",
> >     line
> >     > 69, in deserialize
> >     >     datastruct = yaml.load(data).next()  # first record
> >     >   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cobbler/yaml/load.py",
> >     line
> >     > 83, in next
> >     >     self.nestedDocs.nestToNextLine()
> >     >   File
> >     "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cobbler/yaml/stream.py", line
> >     > 131, in nestToNextLine
> >     >     indentation = indentLevel(line)
> >     >   File
> >     "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cobbler/yaml/stream.py", line
> >     > 6, in indentLevel
> >     >     while n < len(line) and line[n] == ' ':
> >     > TypeError: object of type 'NoneType' has no len()
> >     > $
> >     >
> >
>
> For some reason your /var/lib/cobbler/settings is completely blank --
> that's probably where the parse error was.    I'm not sure how something
> could get into the
> settings object that couldn't be serialized back...
>
> /var/lib/cobbler/settings is created when you first run "cobbler check"
> after install.
>
> To put this file back:
>
> # rm /var/lib/cobbler/settings
> # cobbler check
>
> and then edit the file again.
>
> I just ran a F7 import again as a sanity check and it worked fine for me.
>
> And yes, (to preempt the question) this settings file (unlike the other
> data files in /var/lib/cobbler) is something that really should be
> packaged in the RPM as config/noreplace and put under /etc/cobbler.
> This will be dealt with in a future release.
>
> --Michael
>
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