[et-mgmt-tools] Connection Failure

[Michael DeHaan]

Michael DeHaan wrote:
> Mackell, Thomas O wrote:
>>
>> I am very new to the cobbler setup.
>>
>> I just installed, Imported a distribution and did the rest of the setup.
>>
>> No major problems at this point.
>>
>> Set up the wiu interface, and I am receiving an error on almost all 
>> of the selections I try from there.
>>
>> The doc selection works fine.
>>
>
> Sounds like the web user interface is unable to connect to cobblerd, 
> even though your log does indicate it is started.
>
> For starters, make sure you've followed the instructions here: 
> https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/CobblerWebInterface and
> that "cobbler check" does not report any problems.
>
>
>> When I select any of the menu functions, I receive the following:
>>
>> MOD_PYTHON ERROR
>>  
>> ProcessId:      27185
>> Interpreter:    'linuxtst'
>>  
>> ServerName:     'linuxtst'
>> DocumentRoot:   '/var/www/html'
>>  
>> URI:            '/cobbler/web/'
>> Location:       None
>> Directory:      '/var/www/cobbler/web/'
>> Filename:       '/var/www/cobbler/web/'
>> PathInfo:       ''
>>  
>> Phase:          'PythonHandler'
>> Handler:        'index'
>>  
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mod_python/importer.py", 
>> line 1537, in HandlerDispatch
>>     default=default_handler, arg=req, silent=hlist.silent)
>>  
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mod_python/importer.py", 
>> line 1229, in _process_target
>>     result = _execute_target(config, req, object, arg)
>>  
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mod_python/importer.py", 
>> line 1128, in _execute_target
>>     result = object(arg)
>>  
>>   File "/var/www/cobbler/web/index.py", line 97, in handler
>>     content = func( **form )
>>  
>>   File 
>> "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cobbler/webui/CobblerWeb.py", line 
>> 141, in distro_list
>>     if not self.__xmlrpc_setup():
>>  
>>   File 
>> "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cobbler/webui/CobblerWeb.py", line 
>> 70, in __xmlrpc_setup
>>     raise e
>>  
>> error: (111, 'Connection refused')
>>  
>>  
>> MODULE CACHE DETAILS
>>  
>> Accessed:       Fri Feb 22 13:50:26 2008
>> Generation:     1
>>  
>> _mp_43be29589f5d909275df7d4c30cbcdd3 {
>>   FileName:     '/var/www/cobbler/web/index.py'
>>   Instance:     1
>>   Generation:   1
>>   Modified:     Thu Jan 31 14:46:14 2008
>>   Imported:     Fri Feb 22 13:48:49 2008
>> }
>>  
>> From the cobbler.log file I see:
>> 2008-02-22 13:38:04,497 - api - sync
>> 2008-02-22 13:48:35,178 - api - sync
>> 2008-02-22 13:49:56,127 - remote - cobblerd started
>> 2008-02-22 13:49:56,159 - remote - syslog running on 25150
>> 2008-02-22 13:49:56,151 - remote - XMLRPC running on 25151
>> 2008-02-22 13:50:11,431 - remote - login attempt; user(tomacke)
>> 2008-02-22 13:50:11,435 - api - authenticate; ['tomacke', True]
>> 2008-02-22 13:50:11,440 - remote - login succeeded; user(tomacke)
>>  
>> I am running cobbler-0.8.0-1.fc8
>> Under Fedora Core 8
>>  
>> I must have missed something, At this point I don’t see what it is.
>>  
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Tom Mackell

Also of WebUI note...

Someone recently reported an error submitting the profile webform with 
Python 2.5 and mod_python.

I've got a workaround posted in git.   If you don't want to apply that, 
you can still use the command line
to assign repos to profiles.

If you are using the WebUI and also using cobbler's repo management 
features, and are seeing cobbler
failing to save your repo choices, be aware of that, and we'll include 
that in the next bugfix release.

Long term I am pondering TurboGears (the switch would be reasonably 
easy) but the existing implementation
has the virtue of already working pretty well on older platforms.   If 
someone wants to take a crack
at a TurboGears port that could be interesting.   (Namely I think 
latching on the authentication providers
could streamline some things).

--Michael