From my years of using cobbler, I know the ML is a treasure trove. So, after posting my own Q, I searched the ML. Chris Johnson's Kickstart syntax error post was right there. After reading through it, JMass' pointer:gave me an idea to try. Indeed, after deleting the #set $gateway = $idata["gateway"] linecobbler system getks --name=... worked for all test nodes.Sigh... Some kind of CI should be used for this type of things.Regards,-- Zack
_______________________________________________I have been using a ACER AspireONE D257-13685 netbook running CentOS 6.6 as my portable kickstart server for more than a year successfully. This is because I work in different datacenters and a highly portable kickstart setup is very desirable.I have the following in the /etc/yum.repos.d:[root@kicker yum.repos.d]# lsCentOS-Base.repo CentOS-fasttrack.repo CentOS-Vault.repo epel-testing.repo mirrors-rpmforge mirrors-rpmforge-testingCentOS-Debuginfo.repo CentOS-Media.repo epel.repo home:libertas-ict:cobbler26.repo mirrors-rpmforge-extras rpmforge.repoSo, whenever there is a new cobbler release, the netbook will have it.Earlier today, I did yum update on the netbook. After that I did a couple test kickstart and soon observed failures. As usual I did the cobbler system getks --name=... as a first check to see if the kickstart is rendered or not. Immediately I got:[root@kicker ~]# cobbler system getks --name=sc2u0n0 # This kickstart had errors that prevented it from being rendered correctly. # The cobbler.log should have information relating to this failure.No. The /var/log/cobbler/cobbler.log isn't helpful at all. So, with divide and conquer, by commenting out different sections in the kickstart template, I soon concluded that the pre_install_network_config is the culprit.I even copied over the latest pre_install_network_config from the project's github master. Then put it in /var/lib/cobbler/snippets. No go.Luckily, I have another cobbler server for my office LAN, which retrieves cobbler from epel, so it's still on 2.6.3. Copying over its pre_install_network_config, then cobbler system getks --name all worked again.I then tried to review the difference between the two, pre_install_network_config.org is the one that came with 2.6.8. But I couldn't see why the one that came with 2.6.8 would fail the Cheetah parser.Would appreciate any hints.-- Zack[root@kicker snippets]# diff -c pre_install_network_config pre_install_network_config.orig*** pre_install_network_config 2015-05-31 21:13:18.298305070 -0700--- pre_install_network_config.orig 2015-05-31 21:13:01.372426891 -0700****************** 30,36 ****}#end raw#set ikeys = $interfaces.keys()! #import re#set $vlanpattern = $re.compile("[a-zA-Z0-9]+[\.][0-9]+")#set $routepattern = $re.compile("[0-9/.]+:[0-9.]+")##--- 30,36 ----}#end raw#set ikeys = $interfaces.keys()! # import re#set $vlanpattern = $re.compile("[a-zA-Z0-9]+[\.][0-9]+")#set $routepattern = $re.compile("[0-9/.]+:[0-9.]+")##****************** 56,61 ****--- 56,63 ----#set $static = $idata["static"]#set $ip = $idata["ip_address"]#set $netmask = $idata["netmask"]+ #set $gateway = $idata["gateway"]+ #set $if_gateway = $idata["if_gateway"]#set $iface_type = $idata["interface_type"]#set $iface_master = $idata["interface_master"]#set $static_routes = $idata["static_routes"]****************** 101,108 ****#set $netmask = "255.255.255.0"#end if#set $netinfo = "--bootproto=static --ip=%s --netmask=%s" % ($ip, $netmask)! #if $gateway != ""! #set $netinfo = "%s --gateway=%s" % ($netinfo, $gateway)#end if#if $len($name_servers) > 0#set $netinfo = "%s --nameserver=%s" % ($netinfo, $name_servers[0])--- 103,116 ----#set $netmask = "255.255.255.0"#end if#set $netinfo = "--bootproto=static --ip=%s --netmask=%s" % ($ip, $netmask)! #if $if_gateway != ""! #if $if_gateway == $gateway! #set $netinfo = "%s --gateway=%s" % ($netinfo, $if_gateway)! #else! #set $netinfo = "%s --gateway=%s --nodefroute" % ($netinfo, $if_gateway)! #end if! #else if $gateway != ""! #set $netinfo = "%s --gateway=%s" % ($netinfo, $gateway)#end if#if $len($name_servers) > 0#set $netinfo = "%s --nameserver=%s" % ($netinfo, $name_servers[0])
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