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

[Eric Raymond]

What occurred is that I was using the WebUI to add a system, as well
as running an import media
command from the command line..apparently I ran out of memory, hence
the "memory corruption error" during import, so it
probably couldnt allocate anymore resource to finish writing the yaml
file and broke it.

I will need to slow down my efforts in the future.

Eric

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".
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