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

Phil Dougherty phil.dougherty at gmail.com
Thu Dec 15 19:52:24 UTC 2011


Greg,

I just found that as well. The issue was relating to an outdated modules.conf. Cobbler is starting properly now. Thanks for the help! 

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On Thursday, December 15, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Greg Swift wrote:

> 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 (mailto: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 (mailto: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
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> > > 
> > 
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