Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Michael DeHaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Michael DeHaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>       
>>>> What we've found out is that if Apache connects to itself within
>>>> mod_python via a mod_proxy URL, bad things happen.
>>>>
>>>> So if you change
>>>>
>>>> 127.0.0.1/cobbler_api (Apache proxied XMLRPC endpoint) to just
>>>>
>>>> 127.0.0.1:25151 (python directly)
>>>>
>>>> everything works great.
>>>>
>>>> Rather than hard code the port, I'm going to make it read the settings
>>>> file to get the port number, but basically that's the workaround.
>>>>
>>>> I suspect this /is/ a bug in mod_python and/or mod_proxy though I'm not
>>>> sure the extent of it's seriousness and am ultimately ok with the
>>>> workaround.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> >From the httpd rpm changelog.. I would say it is in the mod_proxy code
>>> (the RPM has multiple changelogs for mod_proxy backporting from future
>>> versions). I opened a bug against this... hope it helps.
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474230
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Should be fixed on devel today, FWIW.
>>
>> If you're wanting to run Cobbler on RHEL 5.3, wait until 1.4 which
>> should come out this month if you like.
>>
>>     
>
> I am guessing that this breakage is going to affect more than cobbler
> so I figured a bug report would be better for a long term fix. There
> is also a mod_proxy bug report for it segfaulting so its good to at
> least test with 5.3 to make sure final doesn't come out with things
> like that.
>
>
>   

Agreed, I had contacted the maintainer regardless -- and have added that 
info to the bug report.

What is in Cobbler is a workaround.


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