Will try to find some time to look in to the second one. Probably just
as trivial as the first one..

-Lassi


On 2012-01-18 16:27, Michael DeHaan wrote:
> Right, we need to tweak the app to always show the original exception
> if serialization failed, and probably (better) scrap that old style
> write because we haven't used that way of saving things in a long time
> (1.6 or 1.4?)
>
> As I'm just pretending to be Linus lately, somebody send a pull
> request or two, it's an easy fix :)
>
>
> --Michael
>
> On Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Lassi Pölönen wrote:
>
>> Oh yes, looks like deserialize_raw() tries first with paths
>> "/var/lib/cobbler/%ss" so that's why. Didn't even remember those were
>> stored that way earlier.
>>
>> Finally got a file added. The command just doesn't seem to complain too
>> much about missing attributes. There seem to be checks in item_file.py
>> but something apparently eats the exception since nothing gets returned
>> when e.g --group is missing. Log doesn't give any hints either. Took a
>> while to notice that --group is also required, but that's just a stupid
>> user error.
>>
>> -Lassi
>>
>> On 2012-01-18 14:58, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>>> It probably failed to load the new way and that is not the true
>>> error but an error in failing the old way (pre catalog serializer,
>>> there was 1 file per object type, not .d directories). Debug further?
>>>
>>> We should prob disable the fallback behavior.
>>>
>>> -- Michael
>>>
>>> On Jan 18, 2012, at 3:37 AM, Lassi Pölönen <[email protected]
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2012-01-17 19:42, Lassi Pölönen wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm running cobbler cobbler-2.2.1-1.el6.noarch from epel-testing
>>>>> on RHEL
>>>>> 6. I decided to try Cobbler's "files" as a replacement for snippets to
>>>>> create static files on post-install. Didn't start too well:
>>>>>
>>>>> first I tried:
>>>>>
>>>>> cobbler file add --name=nagios-nrpe-xinetd-conf
>>>>> --path=/var/lib/cobbler/files/xinetd.d/nrpe
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> and got no output. At this point cobbler file report didn't list
>>>>> anything... also /var/lib/cobbler/config/files.d/ is empty.
>>>>>
>>>>> cobbler's log wrote these lines:
>>>>>
>>>>> -----
>>>>> Tue Jan 17 17:32:00 2012 - DEBUG | get_item; ['file',
>>>>> 'nagios-nrpe-xinetd-conf']
>>>>> Tue Jan 17 17:32:00 2012 - DEBUG | done with get_item; ['file',
>>>>> 'nagios-nrpe-xinetd-conf']
>>>>> Tue Jan 17 17:32:00 2012 - INFO | Exception occured: <class
>>>>> 'cobbler.cexceptions.CX'>
>>>>> Tue Jan 17 17:32:00 2012 - INFO | Exception value: 'internal error,
>>>>> unknown file name nagios-nrpe-xinetd-conf'
>>>>> Tue Jan 17 17:32:00 2012 - INFO | Exception Info:
>>>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/remote.py", line 866,
>>>>> in xapi_object_edit
>>>>> handle = self.get_item_handle(object_type, object_name)
>>>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/remote.py", line 659,
>>>>> in get_item_handle
>>>>> raise CX("internal error, unknown %s name %s" % (what,name))
>>>>>
>>>>> Tue Jan 17 17:32:00 2012 - INFO | REMOTE new_item(file);
>>>>> user(<DIRECT>)
>>>>> Tue Jan 17 17:32:00 2012 - DEBUG | REMOTE CLI Authorized; user(?)
>>>>> Tue Jan 17 17:32:00 2012 - INFO | REMOTE modify_item(file);
>>>>> user(<DIRECT>);
>>>>> object_id(___NEW___file::tcYwwbmv31Tw+dByGLJCTtp+JyYqoLWcLQ==);
>>>>> attribute(in_place)
>>>>> Tue Jan 17 17:32:00 2012 - DEBUG | REMOTE CLI Authorized; user(?)
>>>>> Tue Jan 17 17:32:00 2012 - INFO | REMOTE modify_item(file);
>>>>> user(<DIRECT>);
>>>>> object_id(___NEW___file::tcYwwbmv31Tw+dByGLJCTtp+JyYqoLWcLQ==);
>>>>> attribute(name)
>>>>> Tue Jan 17 17:32:00 2012 - DEBUG | REMOTE CLI Authorized; user(?)
>>>>> Tue Jan 17 17:32:00 2012 - INFO | REMOTE modify_item(file);
>>>>> user(<DIRECT>);
>>>>> object_id(___NEW___file::tcYwwbmv31Tw+dByGLJCTtp+JyYqoLWcLQ==);
>>>>> attribute(path)
>>>>> Tue Jan 17 17:32:00 2012 - DEBUG | REMOTE CLI Authorized; user(?)
>>>>> Tue Jan 17 17:32:00 2012 - INFO | REMOTE save_item(file);
>>>>> user(<DIRECT>);
>>>>> object_id(___NEW___file::tcYwwbmv31Tw+dByGLJCTtp+JyYqoLWcLQ==)
>>>>> Tue Jan 17 17:32:00 2012 - DEBUG | REMOTE CLI Authorized; user(?)
>>>>> Tue Jan 17 17:32:00 2012 - INFO | add_item(file);
>>>>> ['nagios-nrpe-xinetd-conf']
>>>>> Tue Jan 17 17:32:00 2012 - DEBUG | get_items; ['file']
>>>>> Tue Jan 17 17:32:00 2012 - DEBUG | done with get_items; ['file']
>>>>> ----
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried cobbler sync, didn't help either. Then I though I'll restart
>>>>> cobblerd and try again, but it doesn't start anymore. Instead I get:
>>>>>
>>>>> Starting cobbler daemon: Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>> File "/usr/bin/cobblerd", line 76, in main
>>>>> api = cobbler_api.BootAPI(is_cobblerd=True)
>>>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 130, in
>>>>> __init__
>>>>> self.deserialize()
>>>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 795, in
>>>>> deserialize
>>>>> return self._config.deserialize()
>>>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/config.py", line 266,
>>>>> in deserialize
>>>>> raise CX("serializer: error loading collection %s. Check
>>>>> /etc/cobbler/modules.conf" % item.collection_type())
>>>>> CX: 'serializer: error loading collection file. Check
>>>>> /etc/cobbler/modules.conf'
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> the only changes I've made to modules.conf are authentication and
>>>>> tftpd
>>>>> and the config has been working for quite a while. SElinux is
>>>>> disabled.
>>>>> I've tried reinstalling cobbler with yum to make sure no library files
>>>>> are changed, but no help there.
>>>>
>>>> The issue seems to be that I created directory "files" under
>>>> /var/lib/cobbler. Taking out the exception handling from config.py
>>>> reveals:
>>>>
>>>> Starting cobbler daemon: Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>> File "/usr/bin/cobblerd", line 76, in main
>>>> api = cobbler_api.BootAPI(is_cobblerd=True)
>>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 130, in
>>>> __init__
>>>> self.deserialize()
>>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 795, in
>>>> deserialize
>>>> return self._config.deserialize()
>>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/config.py", line 263,
>>>> in deserialize
>>>> serializer.deserialize(item)
>>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/serializer.py", line
>>>> 122, in deserialize
>>>> rc = storage_module.deserialize(obj,topological)
>>>> File
>>>> "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/modules/serializer_catalog.py",
>>>> line
>>>> 229, in deserialize
>>>> datastruct = deserialize_raw(obj.collection_type())
>>>> File
>>>> "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/modules/serializer_catalog.py",
>>>> line
>>>> 174, in deserialize_raw
>>>> fd = open(old_filename)
>>>> IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/var/lib/cobbler/files'
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> renaming that to something else fixes the issue, though I still wonder
>>>> what is the logic...
>>>>
>>>>
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