The problem you're encountering is due to a '$' appearing
in your
password hashes. With version 2.0.3, snippets are now included via
Cheetah, whereas before, cobbler itself was replacing them with the
appropriate file. The net result is that you need to use #raw & #end
raw tags around your password hashes (ssh keys, etc). Unfortunately,
there is a bug in cobbler whereby, when these snippets fail to parse,
the original 'snippet' line is all that remains in the parsed kickstart,
rather than any sort of error message being included, which is what
happens for parsing errors in the main kickstart file.
See these threads for previous discussion of this issue:
https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/cobbler-devel/2010-March/001506.html
https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/cobbler-devel/2010-February/001488.html
I just created a ticket for the issue:
https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/ticket/587
thanks - although i am not 100% sure that is the issue as
post_install_network_config was one of the ones not rendering out as
was a home grown snippet that added a bunch of users but the whole
snippet was encapsulated in a #raw #end raw and it still failed.
i'd like to know if there is any better way to debug this
thanks