[Spacewalk-list] deploy config files in symlinked directory

[Jan Hutař]

On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 14:25:10 +0200 Jens Neu
<jens.neu at biotronik.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> i am observing some weird behavior with my Spacewalk 1.5 when
> deploying config channels that include symlinks.
> 
> I have a config channel consisting of three items:
> 
> 1) dir: /opt/$USER/
> 2) symlink: /usr/local/home/$USER -> /opt/$USER
> 3) file: /usr/local/home/$USER/.foo
> 
> intentions and pathnames are out of scope. Sticking point is,
> the channel includes a symlink as well as files that have the
> symlink in their absolute path.
> When I schedule a "deploy all" action on this, it fails with:
> 
> # rhn_check -vv
> [...]
> [Errno 2] No such file or directory
> D: Sending back response ((6,), 'Fatal error in Python code
> occured', {}) D: do_call packages.checkNeedUpdate ('rhnsd=1',)
> {} D: local action status:  ((6,), 'Fatal error in Python code
> occured', {}) D: rpcServer: Calling XMLRPC
> registration.welcome_message Exception
> exceptions.AttributeError: "'YumAction' object has no
> attribute 'preconf'" in <bound method YumAction.__del__ of
> <actions.packages.YumAction object at 0x8dbb790>> ignored
> 
> Funny thing is, when I split this in two "deploy selected"
> actions with 1) and 2) first, and 3) afterwards, all works
> well. But: the error also occurs not only on the initial,
> first deploy, but also when all files deployed correctly
> anyway. Worse, it breaks the working setup and leaves me with
> something like this:
> 
> # cd /usr/local/home
> # ls -la
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   12 Jul  4
> 12:30 .rhn-cfg-tmp-18017-Lc9cJQ -> /opt/$USER/
> #
> 
> Thoughts on this? Known limitation? Bug?
> 
> 
> best regards from Berlin!
> Jens Neu
> Health Services Network Administration
> 
> 
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Hello,
Dimitar Yordanov checked this and he believes you are hitting
this bug (or similar one):

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627490

It was resolved in Spacewalk 1.6.

Regards,
Jan



-- 
Jan Hutar     Systems Management QA
jhutar at redhat.com     Red Hat, Inc.
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