[cobbler] yaml.parser.ParserError after upgrade to 2.4.7

Jörgen Maas jorgen.maas at gmail.com
Mon Aug 18 19:56:10 UTC 2014


The format of the version file changed in 2.6.x (it's now basically ini
format using python ConfigParser)


On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Greg Chavez <greg.chavez at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for your reply, Alan.
>
> I didn't do a find/xargs/grep for version_tuple!  Drat, bad
> troubleshooting. But in any case, even converting that file to YAML doesn't
> seem to help, I just get more errors.
>
> Another interesting thing, the format of /etc/cobbler/version in 2.6.3 is
> not in YAML either.
>
> Whatever. This is only affecting the Web console, so I can stay in
> business while I stand up 2.6 on a new server and replicate.
>
> --Greg
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Alan Evangelista <
> alanoe at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> On 08/18/2014 11:27 AM, Greg Chavez wrote:
>>
>>> So I upgraded the cobbler and cobbler-web yum packages from 2.4.4 to
>>> 2.4.7, in preparation for upgrading to 2.6 (this is a RedHat 5.6 system).
>>> Cobbler works fine from the command line, but I get an error when I attempt
>>> to login to the Web console.  In /var/log/cobbler, I get this every time I
>>> access:
>>>
>>>
>>>     Fri Aug 15 14:59:08 2014 - INFO | Exception occured:
>>>     yaml.parser.ParserError
>>>     Fri Aug 15 14:59:08 2014 - INFO | Exception value: expected
>>>     '<document start>', but found '<scalar>'
>>>       in "<string>", line 2, column 1:
>>>         version_tuple = [2, 4, 7]
>>>         ^
>>>
>>>
>> /etc/cobbler/version has incorrect format, it should be in YAML.. Example:
>>
>> builddate: Thu Jan 30 21:42:10 2014
>> gitdate: Mon Dec 9 11:08:16 2013 -0800
>> gitstamp: 2181fa3
>> version: 2.5.0
>> version_tuple: [2, 5, 0]
>>
>> It is possible you'll have conflicts with other files. I'd recommend
>> backing up important data and making a a clean installation.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alan Evangelista
>>
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> \*..+.-
> --Greg Chavez
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Grtz,
Jörgen Maas
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