[Freeipa-users] Alpha 2 Bugs or Misconfigurations?

[Jason Gerard DeRose]

On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 16:36 -0800, Ryan Thomson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> First off, thanks to the freeIPA team for releasing the next iteration
> of v2! I eagerly follow this project despite my limited deployment
> goals. As such, I've already downloaded the source code and built it
> on my Fedora 12 PPC server (IBM p505) for testing.
> 
> The new web UI is definitely a move in the right direction! Good work.
> It's quite difficult to judge the workflow at this point though
> because there's a couple problems I'm facing that seem like bugs or
> errors in my installation/configuration which prevent me from really
> starting to hammer data into the UI.

Thanks so much for taking time to test the alpha and give us feedback!
Yes, the UI has some rough spots, but I have patches in the works that
should bring a lot more polish in the next week.  Feel free to ping me
(jderose) on #freeipa if you have any suggestions.

> On both the Automount Maps and Automount Keys pages, I can't see any
> of the existing automount entries. An error is displayed above the
> table: "'cn' is required". I'm thinking this might be referring to the
> cn for the automount "location" being missing/not provided? Is there
> someone to provide it that I'm just obviously missing?
> 
> When I use the "ipa" command on the CLI, I can verify the existence of
> my entry:
> 
> # ipa automountkey-find
> Location: default
> Map: auto.home
>   <automountkey>: ryan
>   <automountinformation>: -wsize=65536,rsize=65536,intr
> dnsname:/home/ryan
> ----------------------------
> Number of entries returned 1
> ----------------------------
> 
> but browsing from the web UI, both the key and map tables appear
> empty. I can however create automount key and map entries through the
> web UI and when I do so, I can see the entry listed right after I
> create it but once I navigate away from the map or key page and go
> back, it's gone with the "'cn' is required' error in bold red again.
> Looking in the httpd error logs, this is all I get when viewing the
> key or map pages:

I'll figure out what's going on here... I can't think of what
automountkey-find would be returning that isn't UTF-8 encode-able, but
this should be a fairly quick fix.  Thanks for pointing this out.

> ipa: INFO: Created connection context.ldap2
> ipa: INFO: Destroyed connection context.ldap2
> ipa: INFO: Created connection context.ldap2
> ipa: DEBUG: raw: automountmap_find(u'', None)
> ipa: INFO: automountmap_find(None, None, all=False, raw=False)
> ipa: INFO: Destroyed connection context.ldap2
> 
> It seems like automountmap_find() maybe isn't specifying any automount
> "location" for where to find entries for but I'm not entirely certain
> here. Is there somewhere I'm missing in the UI where I can specify
> automount location I want to work with?
> 
> Next, on the "Services" page of the web UI, I see an error in bold red
> above the table which says "Request failed to /ipa/json". Checking my
> httpd error logs, I find the following error:
> 
> ipa: ERROR: jsonserver.__call__():
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ipaserver/rpcserver.py", line
> 141, in __call__
>     response = self.wsgi_execute(environ)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ipaserver/rpcserver.py", line
> 128, in wsgi_execute
>     return self.marshal(result, error, _id)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ipaserver/rpcserver.py", line
> 244, in marshal
>     return json.dumps(response, sort_keys=True, indent=4)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/json/__init__.py", line 237, in dumps
>     **kw).encode(obj)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/json/encoder.py", line 367, in encode
>     chunks = list(self.iterencode(o))
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/json/encoder.py", line 309, in _iterencode
>     for chunk in self._iterencode_dict(o, markers):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/json/encoder.py", line 275, in
> _iterencode_dict
>     for chunk in self._iterencode(value, markers):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/json/encoder.py", line 309, in _iterencode
>     for chunk in self._iterencode_dict(o, markers):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/json/encoder.py", line 275, in
> _iterencode_dict
>     for chunk in self._iterencode(value, markers):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/json/encoder.py", line 306, in _iterencode
>     for chunk in self._iterencode_list(o, markers):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/json/encoder.py", line 204, in
> _iterencode_list
>     for chunk in self._iterencode(value, markers):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/json/encoder.py", line 309, in _iterencode
>     for chunk in self._iterencode_dict(o, markers):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/json/encoder.py", line 275, in
> _iterencode_dict
>     for chunk in self._iterencode(value, markers):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/json/encoder.py", line 306, in _iterencode
>     for chunk in self._iterencode_list(o, markers):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/json/encoder.py", line 204, in
> _iterencode_list
>     for chunk in self._iterencode(value, markers):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/json/encoder.py", line 294, in _iterencode
>     yield encoder(o)
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x82 in position 1:
> unexpected code byte
> 
> Unfortunately, I'm not entirely certain where to start investigating
> this problem as I don't posses any significant knowledge of python,
> JSON or UTF encoding!
> 
> Let me know how I can help discover what is going on here and then
> I'll get to doing the more interesting testing of UI workflow, layout,
> etc.
> 
> --Ryan
> 
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