[et-mgmt-tools] Crash of cobbler on x86_64 machine

[Matt Hyclak]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 10:40:34AM +0100, Vladimir Fekete enlightened us:
> 	I need to create an isntalltion server with support of network boot.
> Friends told me about cobbler koan and kickstart. I choosed to start with
> cobbler. Problem is than in every documentation/quick guide the first step
> is: cobbler check (run as root). When I do that, the result is:
> 
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line 719, in
> main
>     BootCLI(sys.argv).run()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line 42, in
> __init__
>     self.api = api.BootAPI()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 40, in
> __init__
>     self.deserialize()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 170, in
> deserialize
>     return self._config.deserialize()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/cobbler/config.py", line 169, in
> deserialize
>     if not serializer.deserialize(x,topological=True):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/cobbler/serializer.py", line 79, in
> deserialize
>     datastruct.sort(cmp=__depth_cmp)
> TypeError: sort() takes no keyword arguments
> 
> 
> 
> Machine runs on Scientific Linux 4.0 (RedHat Enterprise Linux)
> uname:
> 2.6.9-55.EL.cern #1 Thu May 10 17:40:14 CEST 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> package version is cobbler-0.5.0-1.el4.rf
> 
> Could anybody help me how to solve this problem ? Many Thanks.
> 
> 

0.5.0 is very old. You should upgrade to 0.6.5 and see if the problem
persists.

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
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Ohio University
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