[Spacewalk-list] Two Failed 2.7 to 2.9 Upgrades

[Michael Mraka]

Brian Long:
> I have two Spacewalk environments at different sites.  Two weeks ago I
> upgraded one of them from 2.7 to 2.9 (bypassed 2.8).  The DB schema
> upgrade was successful, but I noticed I could not view my Kickstart
> profiles without receiving an error message:
> There are errors in your kickstart template. Please check the
> 'Kickstart File' tab to determine the problem with the template.
> 
> I upgraded my second environment today and I also receive the same
> error message.  When I click on the Kickstart File tab, I see no
> errors or clues on why it cannot generate the kickstart file.  I've
> been looking through various tomcat and rhn log directories but cannot
> determine where the error is occurring.
> 
> If I create a brand new kickstart profile on either server, I get the same
> error.  This seems to imply it's not my Snippets or other customizations to
> the existing profiles.  Something is wrong across the board on these
> newly-upgraded 2.9 systems.
> 
> Where should I look next or what debug should I enable to track this down?

It looks like cobbler is not able to parse kickstart file.
There might be more info in /var/log/cobbler/cobbler.log.

> By the way, my existing systems are working fine and I was able to
> move them to new Spacewalk 2.9 Client channels and update the client
> RPMs without issues.
> 
> Thank you for any insights.
> 
> /Brian/

Regards,

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Michael Mráka
System Management Engineering, Red Hat