[Ovirt-devel] cobbler removing iso (invalid image name)

[Perry Myers]

Michael DeHaan wrote:
> Perry Myers wrote:
>> Mike Butler wrote:
>>> I seemed to have find myself encountering the same issue as 
>>> referenced in this message...
>>> http://www.redhat.com/archives/ovirt-devel/2009-February/msg00021.html
>>> I removed a cobbler image using this syntax...
>>> cobbler image remove --name=Windows_Server_2003
>>> (it did remove the file from�/var/lib/cobbler/config/images.d/)
>>>
>>> ...then if I try to add an image or remove another I get the 
>>> following error no matter what i try...
>>> "invalid image name (Windows_Server_2003)"
>>> When restarting the cobblerd service I get the following...
>>> � raise CX(_("invalid image name (%s)") % image_name)
>>> cobbler.cexceptions.CX: 'invalid image name (Windows_Server_2003)'
>>> [FAILED]
>>
>> cc'ing Mike DeHaan since this is a cobbler issue.
>>
>> Perry
> 
> Ok, did some looking at the code.   What happens is you have a system 
> record pointing to a image record that no longer exists.   This threw me 
> previously because it sounds like it's about the image, what it is 
> complaining about is the system record no longer has a parent.
> 
> (A)   Cobbler should not be allowing this when a system record still on 
> the image.   This is a bug which I'll fix for 1.4.3
> 
> (B)   To actually delete the image, ovirt should be calling deletes with 
> the "recursive" option in the cobbler API to delete the image or should 
> otherwise point the system back at another profile before deleting it.

ovirt is not doing this automatically... This was done manually by a user. 
  But point taken :)

Thanks for the info!

Perry