[et-mgmt-tools] TypeError: sort() takes no keyword arguments

[Michael DeHaan]

Martin Minka wrote:
> hello,
> I installed Cobbler on CentOS 4.5, but "cobbler check" (but also 
> "cobbler") returns error: "TypeError: sort() takes no keyword arguments".
>
> # cobbler
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line 719, 
> in main
>    BootCLI(sys.argv).run()
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line 42, 
> in __init__
>    self.api = api.BootAPI()
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 40, in 
> __init__
>    self.deserialize()
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 170, in 
> deserialize
>    return self._config.deserialize()
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/cobbler/config.py", line 169, 
> in deserialize
>    if not serializer.deserialize(x,topological=True):
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/cobbler/serializer.py", line 
> 79, in deserialize
>    datastruct.sort(cmp=__depth_cmp)
> TypeError: sort() takes no keyword arguments
> zsh: exit 1     cobbler
>
> Please help me to fix this problem.
>
> Best regards,
> Martin Minka
>
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If I recall correctly, this appeared in one of the 0.5.x testing builds 
(possibly 0.5.1).

0.6.0 is out now, please upgrade to that and this will go away.

You can add EPEL as a repository if you like and just use yum to update 
cobbler.

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/testing/4/i386/