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

Jörgen Maas jorgen.maas at gmail.com
Mon Aug 18 20:41:07 UTC 2014


Not very likely, the file is generated by setup.py when building/installing.



On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 10:11 PM, Greg Chavez <greg.chavez at gmail.com> wrote:

> I pulled down a backup of the version file from a few days ago and solved
> the issue:
>
> root at io-ns-03:~> cat /etc/cobbler/version
> builddate: Tue Apr 22 15:30:11 2014
> gitdate: '?'
> gitstamp: '?'
> version: 2.4.4
> version_tuple: [2, 4, 4]
>
> So like the 2.6 version file snuck into the 2.4.7 package?
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Jörgen Maas <jorgen.maas at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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>
>
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> --Greg Chavez
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Grtz,
Jörgen Maas
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