[Spacewalk-list] Kickstart script generation error with snippet "template"

[Jonathan Scott]

Anyone have any insight? I'm dead in the water here.

Thanks,
Jonathan


On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Jonathan Scott <lists at xistenz.org> wrote:

> Good Morning,
>
> I just tried to build a new kickstart profile on my freshly patched
> Spacewalk 1.8 install, only to be greeted with the following error:
>
>
> # *** ERROR ***
> #
> # There is a templating error preventing this file from rendering correctly.
> #
> # This is most likely not due to a bug in Cobbler and is something you can fix.
> #
> # Look at the message below to see what things are causing problems.
> #
> # (1) Does the template file reference a $variable that is not defined?
> # (2) is there a formatting error in a Cheetah directive?
> # (3) Should dollar signs ($) be escaped that are not being escaped?
> #
> # Try fixing the problem and then investigate to see if this message goes
> # away or changes.
> #
> #
> # 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 3786: ordinal not in range(128)
> #   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/templar.py", line 139, in render
> #     data_out = t.respond()
> #
> #   File "cheetah_DynamicallyCompiledCheetahTemplate_1360163568_47_92820.py", line 750, in respond
> #
> #   File "cheetah_DynamicallyCompiledCheetahTemplate_1360163568_47_92820.py", line 207, in __errorCatcher21
> #
> #   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
> #
> #   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/template_api.py", line 335, in SNIPPET
> #     result = BuiltinTemplate.SNIPPET(self, file)
> #
> #   File "DynamicallyCompiledCheetahTemplate.py", line 85, in SNIPPET
> #
> #   File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/Cheetah/Template.py", line 1583, in _handleCheetahInclude
> #     nestedTemplateClass = compiler.compile(source=source, file=file)
> #
> #   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/template_api.py", line 292, in compile
> #     return Cheetah.Template.Template.compile(*args, **kwargs)
> #
> #   File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/Cheetah/Template.py", line 737, in compile
> #     settings=(compilerSettings or {}))
> #
> #   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/template_api.py", line 132, in __init__
> #     Cheetah.Compiler.ModuleCompiler.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
> #
> #   File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/Cheetah/Compiler.py", line 1575, in __init__
> #     source = unicode(source)
> #
>
> It seems to be associated with the "Template" portion of the pre/post
> script section calling out to my snippets (which work on my older 1.7
> install without issue). Unchecking this checkbox resolves the issue, but
> breaks my kickstart methodology. I did some googling and found that this
> was a bug in cobbler2-2.0.10 and was supposed to be resolved in
> cobbler2-2.0.11, however, I have cobbler2-2.0.11-4 installed and it seems
> to have persisted. Any ideas as to how I can get this resolved?
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
>
>
>
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