Issues starting cobblerd after an upgrade to 2.2.1-1.el5

Greg Swift gregswift at gmail.com
Thu Dec 15 19:50:53 UTC 2011


What version did you upgrade from?  The 2.2 chain introduced the python
tftp server and if your old modules.conf didn't have the tftp entry you
would fail to load.

http://www.mail-archive.com/cobbler-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org/msg01295.html

-greg

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 13:45, Phil Dougherty <phil.dougherty at gmail.com>wrote:

> I made the changes you suggested to config.py and am now getting this
> error:
>
>
> [root at cobbler1 cobbler]# /etc/init.d/cobblerd start
> Starting cobbler daemon: Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/cobblerd", line 76, in main
>     api = cobbler_api.BootAPI(is_cobblerd=True)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 130, in
> __init__
>     self.deserialize()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 873, in
> deserialize
>     return self._config.deserialize()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/config.py", line 263, in
> deserialize
>     serializer.deserialize(item)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/serializer.py", line 122,
> in deserialize
>     rc = storage_module.deserialize(obj,topological)
>   File
> "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/modules/serializer_catalog.py",
> line 232, in deserialize
>     obj.from_datastruct(datastruct)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/collection.py", line 159,
> in from_datastruct
>     self.add(item)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/collection.py", line 277,
> in add
>     self.lite_sync = action_litesync.BootLiteSync(self.config,
> logger=logger)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/action_litesync.py", line
> 54, in __init__
>     self.tftpd       = module_loader.get_module_from_file(
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/module_loader.py", line
> 96, in get_module_from_file
>     raise CX(_("Failed to load module for %s/%s") % (category,field))
> CX: 'Failed to load module for tftpd/module'
>                                                            [  OK  ]
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Phil Dougherty <phil.dougherty at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>  Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to upgrade cobbler to the 2.2.1-1.el5 version from
>> epel-testing because I would like to have support to import ubuntu ISO's.
>>
>> When I try to start cobbler I am getting the following error message.
>> Could this be related to my crusty old python 2.4 version perhaps?
>>
>> [root at cobbler1 cobbler]# /etc/init.d/cobblerd start
>> Starting cobbler daemon: Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/usr/bin/cobblerd", line 76, in main
>>     api = cobbler_api.BootAPI(is_cobblerd=True)
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 130, in
>> __init__
>>     self.deserialize()
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 873, in
>> deserialize
>>     return self._config.deserialize()
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/config.py", line 266, in
>> deserialize
>>     raise CX("serializer: error loading collection %s. Check
>> /etc/cobbler/modules.conf" % item.collection_type())
>> CX: 'serializer: error loading collection distro. Check
>> /etc/cobbler/modules.conf'
>>                                                            [  OK  ]
>> [root at cobbler1 cobbler]# ps auxw|grep cobbler
>> avahi     1428  0.0  0.0  22508  1132 ?        Ss   Dec06   0:00
>> avahi-daemon: running [cobbler1.local]
>> root     11866  0.0  0.0  61176   748 pts/0    S+   13:45   0:00 grep
>> cobbler
>>
>> Operating system is CentOS 5.5 64bit.
>>
>> The only post that I have found that looks to be related is this one.
>> https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/cobbler-devel/2011-July/002275.html
>>
>> Is there another version that is perhaps more stable that includes the
>> support I am looking for?
>>
>> I appreciate any help that can be provided.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Phil Dougherty
>> Sent with Sparrow <http://bit.ly/sigsprw>
>>
>>
>
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