[Spacewalk-list] Cobbler Errors after Upgrade to Spacewalk 2.0

[Michael Mraka]

Boyd, Robert wrote:
% I'm having problems deleting systems  after upgrading, and it looks like the problem is somewhere in Cobbler.   Here is what I see in /var/log/cobbler.log
% 
% Tue Aug 13 16:35:23 2013 - DEBUG | XMLRPC running on 25151
% Tue Aug 13 16:39:46 2013 - INFO | Exception raised when loading module authn_pam
% Tue Aug 13 16:39:46 2013 - INFO | Exception occured: <type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>
% Tue Aug 13 16:39:46 2013 - INFO | Exception value: /usr/bin/python: undefined symbol: pam_start
% Tue Aug 13 16:39:46 2013 - INFO | Exception Info:
%   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/module_loader.py", line 76, in load_modules
%     blip =  __import__("modules.%s" % ( modname), globals(), locals(), [modname])
%    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/modules/authn_pam.py", line 121, in <module>
%     PAM_START = LIBPAM.pam_start
%    File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/ctypes/__init__.py", line 366, in __getattr__
%     func = self.__getitem__(name)
%    File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/ctypes/__init__.py", line 371, in __getitem__
%     func = self._FuncPtr((name_or_ordinal, self))
% 
% Tue Aug 13 16:39:46 2013 - INFO | 10 breeds and 30 OS versions read from the signature file
% Tue Aug 13 16:39:46 2013 - DEBUG | API handle initialized
% Tue Aug 13 16:39:46 2013 - DEBUG | XMLRPC running on 25151
% 
% Where does pam_start get defined and what should I do to figure out what I need to do to repair this problem?

Hi Robert,

could it be related to the problem reported in 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2012-August/msg00098.html?


Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat