[et-mgmt-tools] CentOS 4.5 - cobbler-0.5.0-1.el4.rf - check error

[Tom Brown]

>
>
> Just trying to setup a new machine and this is my first attempt at a 
> cobbler server. I installed what i need i think but running a cobbler 
> check gives me the folowing error.
>
> Can anyone give me hints to this error??
>
> thanks
>
> # cobbler check
> 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

anyone help here? This seems to be a similar issue

http://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2007-July/msg00023.html

but i installed from romforge rpm's and so i am unsure about the fix?

thanks for any assistance