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

[Riggs, Ben]

The data files for cobbler are currently written in yaml. Yaml is very, 
very picky and one of your yaml files got borked. Move the files in 
/var/lib/cobbler individually and try '> cobbler list' to find out which 
one is broken.

As an aside, posting a traceback in an IRC channel is bad. Check out 
cobbler.pastebin.com for future reference.

Ben

Eric Raymond wrote:
> 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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