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

[Michael DeHaan]

Michael DeHaan wrote:
> 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?
>
> Hmmm .... Cobbler isn't threaded.  Were you using the WebUI and 
> command line at the same time?    Ordinarily that should be ok, though 
> if one were to crash (still not sure why it actually crashed?) while 
> it had not yet finished writing the configuration file, that would be 
> a problem.  Do you have a copy of the error (traceback) you could post? 

Apparently I'm blind.

I see the traceback and that is most certaintly coming from the parser 
when it's trying to re-read the file, though I'm curious as to what you 
meant by "memory corruption error".