[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk-list Digest, Vol 57, Issue 9 (template issue)

Fri Feb 8 16:04:04 UTC 2013

Thank you for the nudge in the right direction. I don't know why I didn't
try to isolate it that way to begin with. You're 100% correct; there was an
unhappy snippet. Once isolated and removed from the post file the kickstart
compiled properly. I blew away, resync'd cobbler (found an error about
missing syslinux package... not sure why that didn't install as part of the
spacewalk install if it's a requirement), re-added the snippet, and we're
good to go.

Thanks again!
Jonathan

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:37 AM, <Todd_Walters at unigroupinc.com> wrote:

> Hello Jonathan,
>
> I have experienced this issue a few times with snippets. Usually I had
> some error in my snippet and then it seemed to mess up the whole kickstart
> profile I was trying to attach it to. If I remember I had to delete that
> snippet and kickstart profile, run cobbler sync, recreate kickstart
> profile,( just cloned and that worked), then rebuild snippet making sure it
> was ok. Then would place in my kickstart script and when I clicked template
> it worked. I had tried several times, and like I mentioned if I got those
> errors below once, only way I was able to resolve was to both rebuild
> snippet and profile.
>
> Thanks,
> Todd Walters
> Sr System Software Programmer / Linux
> ------------------------------
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> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 08:28:53 -0500
> From: Jonathan Scott <lists at xistenz.org>
> To: spacewalk-list <spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Kickstart script generation error with
>    snippet   "template"
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> Anyone have any insight? I'm dead in the water here.
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Jonathan Scott <lists at xistenz.org> wrote:
>
> > Good Morning,
> >
> > I just tried to build a new kickstart profile on my freshly patched
> > Spacewalk 1.8 install, only to be greeted with the following error:
> >
> >
> > # *** ERROR ***
> > #
> > # There is a templating error preventing this file from rendering
> correctly.
> > #
> > # This is most likely not due to a bug in Cobbler and is something you
> can fix.
> > #
> > # Look at the message below to see what things are causing problems.
> > #
> > # (1) Does the template file reference a $variable that is not defined?
> > # (2) is there a formatting error in a Cheetah directive?
> > # (3) Should dollar signs ($) be escaped that are not being escaped?
> > #
> > # Try fixing the problem and then investigate to see if this message goes
> > # away or changes.
> > #
> > #
> > # 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 3786: ordinal not in
> range(128)
> > #   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/templar.py", line
> 139, in render
> > #     data_out = t.respond()
> > #
> > #   File
> "cheetah_DynamicallyCompiledCheetahTemplate_1360163568_47_92820.py", line
> 750, in respond
> > #
> > #   File
> "cheetah_DynamicallyCompiledCheetahTemplate_1360163568_47_92820.py", line
> 207, in __errorCatcher21
> > #
> > #   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
> > #
> > #   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/template_api.py",
> line 335, in SNIPPET
> > #     result = BuiltinTemplate.SNIPPET(self, file)
> > #
> > #   File "DynamicallyCompiledCheetahTemplate.py", line 85, in SNIPPET
> > #
> > #   File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/Cheetah/Template.py", line
> 1583, in _handleCheetahInclude
> > #     nestedTemplateClass = compiler.compile(source=source, file=file)
> > #
> > #   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/template_api.py",
> line 292, in compile
> > #     return Cheetah.Template.Template.compile(*args, **kwargs)
> > #
> > #   File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/Cheetah/Template.py", line
> 737, in compile
> > #     settings=(compilerSettings or {}))
> > #
> > #   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/template_api.py",
> line 132, in __init__
> > #     Cheetah.Compiler.ModuleCompiler.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
> > #
> > #   File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/Cheetah/Compiler.py", line
> 1575, in __init__
> > #     source = unicode(source)
> > #
> >
> > It seems to be associated with the "Template" portion of the pre/post
> > script section calling out to my snippets (which work on my older 1.7
> > install without issue). Unchecking this checkbox resolves the issue, but
> > breaks my kickstart methodology. I did some googling and found that this
> > was a bug in cobbler2-2.0.10 and was supposed to be resolved in
> > cobbler2-2.0.11, however, I have cobbler2-2.0.11-4 installed and it seems
> > to have persisted. Any ideas as to how I can get this resolved?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jonathan
> >
> >
> >
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