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Bug 1498974

Summary: rh_subscription module causes null reference error when specifying repositories
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: David Mulford <dmulford>
Component: cloud-initAssignee: Ryan McCabe <rmccabe>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Yuhui Jiang <yujiang>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 7.4CC: dmulford, jbadiapa, jgreguske, lars, lmiksik, mmagr, mrunge, vhutsky, yujiang, yuxisun
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Description David Mulford 2017-10-05 16:56:08 UTC
Description of problem:
When specifying repositories to enable, but none to disable, a 'NoneType' python exception is thrown causing cloud-init to fail.

I've submitted this PR upstream as a fix:
https://github.com/cloud-init/cloud-init/pull/9

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
cloud-init 0.7.9


How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a cloud-init user-data with the following rh_subscription module options

  rh_subscription:
    username: <username>
    password: <password>
    add-pool: [ <pool-id> ]
    enable-repo: [ 'rhel-7-server-extras-rpms' ]

2. Attempt to create a machine using cloud-init.

Actual results:
A 'NoneType' python exception is thrown when attempting to iterate on the disable-repo array (called "drepos" in the code), since the disable-repo option wasn't specified in the cloud-init user-data.

Expected results:
disable-repo is ignored and cloud-init rh_subscription module runs successfully.

Additional info:
A workaround is to add an empty array for the disable-repos options.

Comment 2 Ryan McCabe 2017-10-05 17:12:37 UTC
Upstream for cloud-init is at https://launchpad.net/cloud-init

I'm not sure if anybody is monitoring the github mirror. You'll probably want to open an issue and submit the patch there.

Comment 3 David Mulford 2017-10-09 20:31:28 UTC
Thanks Ryan! I've submitted the PR to launchpad:

https://code.launchpad.net/~dmulford/cloud-init/+git/cloud-init/+merge/332030

Comment 4 Ryan McCabe 2017-10-09 20:35:12 UTC
Thanks. I will keep an eye on it and pull it in here once it is accepted.

Comment 6 David Mulford 2017-11-06 23:09:43 UTC
I had to resubmit the upstream PR as requested by Scott Moser.

Here is the new URL:
https://code.launchpad.net/~dmulford/cloud-init/+git/cloud-init/+merge/333293

Comment 7 Ryan McCabe 2017-11-06 23:35:30 UTC
Thanks for the heads-up. I will keep an eye on that.

Comment 12 Yuhui Jiang 2017-11-14 02:57:44 UTC
Hi Ryan,
I have added a comment on the PR.

Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2018-04-10 14:05:07 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:0806