[et-mgmt-tools] distro add error.

[Michael DeHaan]

David Mackintosh wrote:
> I'm probably bending the envelope again but can't figure out how. 
> What is cobbler trying to tell me I've done wrong?
>
> [root at helmsdeep ~]# rpm -qa | grep cobb
> cobbler-0.4.2-0
> [root at helmsdeep ~]# rpm -qa | grep cheet
> python23-cheetah-0.9.18-1.el4.pyv
> python-cheetah-0.9.18-1.el4.pyv
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 2)
> [root at helmsdeep ~]# uname -a
> Linux helmsdeep 2.6.9-22.EL #1 Mon Sep 19 17:49:49 EDT 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> [root at helmsdeep ~]# ls "/mnt/kickstart/CentOS-4.3-i386/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz"                                               /mnt/kickstart/CentOS-4.3-i386/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
> [root at helmsdeep ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
> [root at helmsdeep ~]# cobbler distro add --name="CentOS-4.3-i386" --kernel="/mnt/kickstart/CentOS-4.3-i386/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz" --initrd="/mnt/kickstart/CentOS-4.3-i386/images/pxeboot/initrd.img"
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line 505, in main
>     BootCLI(sys.argv).run()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line 102, in run
>     self.curry_args(self.args[1:], self.commands['toplevel'])
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line 421, in curry_args
>     commands[args[0]](args[1:])
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line 469, in distro
>     return self.curry_args(args, self.commands['distro'])
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line 421, in curry_args
>     commands[args[0]](args[1:])
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line 386, in distro_edit
>     return self.apply_args(args,commands,on_ok)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line 409, in apply_args
>     on_ok()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line 385, in <lambda>
>     on_ok = lambda: self.api.distros().add(distro, with_copy=self.api.sync_flag)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/cobbler/collection.py", line 97, in add
>     lite_sync.add_single_distro(ref.name)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/cobbler/action_litesync.py", line 60, in add_single_distro
>     self.sync.write_distro_file(distro)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/cobbler/action_sync.py", line 733, in write_distro_file
>     clone.kernel_options = self.hash_to_string(clone.kernel_options)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/cobbler/action_sync.py", line 885, in hash_to_string
>     buffer = buffer + key + "=" + value + " "
> TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'int' objects
>
>   
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It's a bug.   There's a patch regarding this a bit further up on the 
mailing list, or you can just upgrade to 0.4.3 and this goes away.

David Lutterkort runs a RHEL4 yum repo that includes cobbler and koan 
here -- http://people.redhat.com/~dlutter/yum/rhel4/

--Michael