[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.1 and Cobbler problems

[Michael Mraka]

Michael Snyder wrote:
% Working on a Spacewalk 2.1 deployment, and almost everything is perfect.  Except...
% 
% When trying to configure a Kickstart profile, the following conditions are observed:
% 
% *         When displaying the "Kickstart File" tab in the profile, the frontend displays "There are errors in your Kickstart template.  Please check the error message below", but there is no error message below...
% 
% *         The "System Details" tab, "Partitioning" subtab, displays the Partition Details value as a long unbroken string of hexadecimal digits.
% 
% *         A tail if cobbler.log shows:
% Tue Oct  7 20:28:41 2014 - INFO | REMOTE generate_kickstart; user(?)
% Tue Oct  7 20:28:41 2014 - INFO | generate_kickstart
% Tue Oct  7 20:28:41 2014 - WARNING | errors were encountered rendering the template
% Tue Oct  7 20:28:41 2014 - WARNING |
% [{'code': u'VFFSL(SL,"mgQt",True)',
%   'exc_val': NotFound("cannot find 'mgQt'",),
%   'lineCol': (24, 22),
%   'rawCode': u'$mgQt',
%   'time': 'Tue Oct  7 20:28:41 2014'},
% {'code': u'VFFSL(SL,"BYgGr35Jip.e5cNlWW2Dj",True)',
%   'exc_val': NotFound("cannot find 'BYgGr35Jip'",),
%   'lineCol': (24, 31),
%   'rawCode': u'$BYgGr35Jip.e5cNlWW2Dj',
%   'time': 'Tue Oct  7 20:28:41 2014'}]
% 
% 
% I've cruised the archives and performed other searches, but have hit a dead end.  Has anyone observed behavior like this?

Do you use by chance different PostgreSQL client and server versions?
It looks simlar to issues reported in
https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-devel/2012-August/msg00028.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2013-June/msg00005.html


Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat