[et-mgmt-tools] re: "invalid kernel" -- found the problem!

[Jan Wildeboer]

On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 17:24 -0500, Michael DeHaan wrote:

> That does not seem possible.    I can believe it flipping out due to 
> connection problems though (again, should be much happier in 0.7.X due
> to the new exception handling code).

I know it seems impossible. Let me sum up what I did, what I saw and how
I corrected it.

This is cobbler 0.6.5.1

After I had some problems with the web-ui (it seems impossible to delete
distros, so I edited the distros file in /var/lib/cobbler manually) I
decided to get some sleep.

Next morning I logged in to cobbler and clicked on distros, after 30
seconds I got an error along the lines of "XMLRPC auth error, check your
apache logs".

I did netstat -alp | grep 25 and noticed something odd. Netstat claimed
that port 25152 was owned by dhcpd.

Hrmpf. Coffee.

service cobblerd stop
service dhcpd restart
service cobblerd start

netstat -alp | grep 25

All is fine again. Whatever.

It *seems* to happen after I have clicked sync in the webui a few times.
It is not really reproducable, but it happened a few times in the last
week.

HTH

Jan

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