[Spacewalk-list] Problem starting cobbler in CentOS 6.3

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 03:15:13PM +0200, Registros Web wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This is what I've been getting when trying to start cobbler in CentOS 6.3:
> 
> [root]# /etc/init.d/cobblerd start
> Starting cobbler daemon: Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/cobblerd", line 76, in main
>     api = cobbler_api.BootAPI(is_cobblerd=True)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 127, in __init__
>     module_loader.load_modules()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/module_loader.py",
> line 62, in load_modules
>     blip =  __import__("modules.%s" % ( modname), globals(), locals(),
> [modname])
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/modules/authn_pam.py",
> line 53, in <module>
>     from ctypes import CDLL, POINTER, Structure, CFUNCTYPE, cast,
> pointer, sizeof
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/ctypes/__init__.py", line 546, in <module>
>     CFUNCTYPE(c_int)(lambda: None)
> MemoryError
>                                                            [  OK  ]

[...]

> Searching the net for the problem, i found this thread:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org/msg07650.html.
> 
> Seems the trouble comes with cobbler package 2.2.3 and not with
> previous versions.

Yep, you are sadly hitting bugzilla

	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=838898

-- still not fixed.

-- 
Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat