On 09/26/2012 11:45 PM, Andrey Brindeyev wrote:
Hi!

Is there any way to debug Cheetah template parsing errors?

Yesterday my kickstart works fine and now I start getting following very 
meaningless error in /var/log/cobbler/cobbler.log:
====
Wed Sep 26 20:10:40 2012 - INFO | REMOTE generate_kickstart; user(?)
Wed Sep 26 20:10:40 2012 - INFO | generate_kickstart
Wed Sep 26 20:10:40 2012 - INFO | Exception occured: <type 
'exceptions.NameError'>
Wed Sep 26 20:10:40 2012 - INFO | Exception value: global name 'out_path' is 
not defined
Wed Sep 26 20:10:40 2012 - INFO | Exception Info:
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/remote.py", line 1970, in 
_dispatch
     return method_handle(*params)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/remote.py", line 1000, in 
generate_kickstart
     return self.api.generate_kickstart(profile,system)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 643, in 
generate_kickstart
     return self.kickgen.generate_kickstart_for_profile(profile)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/kickgen.py", line 300, in 
generate_kickstart_for_profile
     return self.generate_kickstart(profile=g)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/kickgen.py", line 278, in 
generate_kickstart
     data = self.templar.render(raw_data, meta, None, obj)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/templar.py", line 112, in 
render
     data_out = self.render_cheetah(raw_data, search_table, subject)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/templar.py", line 208, in 
render_cheetah
     if out_path is None:

====

I'm getting that error on both my kickstarts.
How can I understand which part of template is causing an error?

Andrey.
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I suggest using #raw #end raw combination to eliminate sections of the snippet till you get it rendered right and see which statement breaks things. The opposite logic works too - enclose all snippet in this set and start opening parts of it little by little. I use both methods depending on the size and complexity of the snippet in question. There is no need to do actual system builds - you can use getks option in cobbler or see the rendered ks in the web interface.

--

Leon
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