[cobbler] Finding snippet errors
Harry Hoffman
hhoffman at ip-solutions.net
Fri Mar 22 12:07:35 UTC 2013
Can you share your snippet? Maybe we can help debug.
On 03/22/2013 08:05 AM, Robert Jacobson wrote:
> On 3/22/2013 7:30 AM, Harry Hoffman wrote:
>> Have you run "cobbler validateks" on the kickstart file that includes
>> the snippet?
>
> Thanks, I didn't know about this -- However, for my particular example
> of a broken snippet, it doesn't help. It just stops working with a
> non-helpful error message when it gets to the kickstart with the problem:
>
> Exception occured: <type 'exceptions.NameError'>
> [etc]
>
>
>> Also, there's the ErrorCatcher class in cheetah (albeit not built into
>> cobbler) that can help with this.
>
> Thanks again! This will probably help for some things. Still, it
> doesn't appear to help with my example broken snippet. At least, not
> when I did this:
> #errorCatcher Echo
> #if $break_me == 1
> # no #end if...
>
> I did notice that if you have an undefined variable, it changes the
> behavior completely. Without errorCatcher, the kickstart would just have:
> $SNIPPET('snippet_with_error')
> but with errorCatcher, the kickstart is printed with the undefined
> variable in it. Maybe this isn't a good thing, because there's no error
> message anywhere I can find. i.e. all the errorCatcher does in this
> case is make the error silent! At least when "$SNIPPET" is present I
> know there's an error in it :)
>
>
>
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