[et-mgmt-tools] Traceback on system add and distro import

[Eric Raymond]

Hello All,

I am not sure what exactly happened, but it definitely seems like threading
issue went wrong.  I was importing a distro and during that time, I also
added a system, but the newly added system was not using the currently
importing distro or profile.  The import bombed out with memory corruption
error. Then I tried to recover but found that I kept getting traceback
errors whenever i ran any cobbler command. I have rebooted, and still
cobbler is not able to run now.  Before I blow away my installation and try
again any suggestions?

Here is the full traceback:

[root at kickstart ~]# cobbler sync
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line 713, in
main
    BootCLI(sys.argv).run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line 42, in
__init__
    self.api = api.BootAPI()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 43, in
__init__
    self.deserialize()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 227, in
deserialize
    return self._config.deserialize()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/config.py", line 170, in
deserialize
    if not serializer.deserialize(x,topological=True):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/serializer.py", line 45, in
deserialize
    return storage_module.deserialize(obj,topological)
  File
"/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/modules/serializer_yaml.py", line
82, in deserialize
    datastruct = yaml.load(data).next()  # first record
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/yaml/load.py", line 83, in
next
    self.nestedDocs.nestToNextLine()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/yaml/stream.py", line 131,
in nestToNextLine
    indentation = indentLevel(line)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/yaml/stream.py", line 6, in
indentLevel
    while n < len(line) and line[n] == ' ':
TypeError: len() of unsized object

Thanks,

Eric
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