Bug 1568238 - XMLRPC Fault in taskactions.to_xml: TypeError: expected string or buffer
Summary: XMLRPC Fault in taskactions.to_xml: TypeError: expected string or buffer
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Beaker
Classification: Retired
Component: scheduler
Version: 25
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
urgent
unspecified
Target Milestone: 25.2
Assignee: Dan Callaghan
QA Contact: tools-bugs
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: 1568684 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-04-17 03:12 UTC by Roman Joost
Modified: 2018-04-19 03:51 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2018-04-19 03:51:03 UTC
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Description Roman Joost 2018-04-17 03:12:56 UTC
Description of problem:

On beaker-server I've seen a TypeError which seems to be in the similar series of regressions for Bug 911515

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
25.1

How reproducible:
not sure

Steps to Reproduce:
not sure

Actual results:
Traceback:


Apr 17 02:56:08 beaker-server beaker-server[111453]: bkr.server.xmlrpccontroller ERROR Error handling XML-RPC method                                                                                                                          Apr 17 02:56:08 beaker-server beaker-server[111453]:  Traceback (most recent call last):                                                                                                                                                      Apr 17 02:56:08 beaker-server beaker-server[111453]:    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/bkr/server/xmlrpccontroller.py", line 59, in RPC2                                                                                              Apr 17 02:56:08 beaker-server beaker-server[111453]:      response = self.process_rpc(method,params)                                                                                                                                          Apr 17 02:56:08 beaker-server beaker-server[111453]:    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/bkr/server/xmlrpccontroller.py", line 44, in process_rpc                                                                                       Apr 17 02:56:08 beaker-server beaker-server[111453]:      response = obj(*params)                                                                                                                                                             Apr 17 02:56:08 beaker-server beaker-server[111453]:    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/bkr/server/task_actions.py", line 87, in to_xml                                                                                                Apr 17 02:56:08 beaker-server beaker-server[111453]:      include_logs=include_logs),                                                                                                                                                         Apr 17 02:56:08 beaker-server beaker-server[111453]:    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/bkr/server/model/scheduler.py", line 1200, in to_xml                                                                                           Apr 17 02:56:08 beaker-server beaker-server[111453]:      job.append(rs.to_xml(clone=clone, include_enclosing_job=False, **kwargs))                                                                                                           Apr 17 02:56:08 beaker-server beaker-server[111453]:    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/bkr/server/model/scheduler.py", line 1692, in to_xml                                                                                           Apr 17 02:56:08 beaker-server beaker-server[111453]:      recipeSet.append(r.to_xml(clone, include_enclosing_job=False, **kwargs))                                                                                                            Apr 17 02:56:08 beaker-server beaker-server[111453]:    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/bkr/server/model/scheduler.py", line 3049, in to_xml                                                                                           Apr 17 02:56:08 beaker-server beaker-server[111453]:      for guest in self.guests]                                                                                                                                                           Apr 17 02:56:08 beaker-server beaker-server[111453]:    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/bkr/server/model/scheduler.py", line 2980, in to_xml                                                                                           Apr 17 02:56:08 beaker-server beaker-server[111453]:      method = self.reduced_install_options().ks_meta.get('method', None)                                                                                                                 Apr 17 02:56:08 beaker-server beaker-server[111453]:    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/bkr/server/model/scheduler.py", line 2537, in reduced_install_options                                                                          Apr 17 02:56:08 beaker-server beaker-server[111453]:      self.installation.arch))                                                                                                                                                            Apr 17 02:56:08 beaker-server beaker-server[111453]:    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/bkr/server/model/distrolibrary.py", line 171, in install_options_for_distro                                                                    Apr 17 02:56:08 beaker-server beaker-server[111453]:      osmajor_name, osminor, variant, arch))                                                                                                                                              Apr 17 02:56:08 beaker-server beaker-server[111453]:    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/bkr/server/model/distrolibrary.py", line 43, in default_install_options_for_distro                                                             Apr 17 02:56:08 beaker-server beaker-server[111453]:      name, version = split_osmajor_name_version(osmajor_name)                                                                                                                            Apr 17 02:56:08 beaker-server beaker-server[111453]:    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/bkr/server/model/distrolibrary.py", line 33, in split_osmajor_name_version                                                                     Apr 17 02:56:08 beaker-server beaker-server[111453]:      return re.match(r'(.*?)(rawhide|\d*)$', osmajor).groups()                                                                                                                           Apr 17 02:56:08 beaker-server beaker-server[111453]:    File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/re.py", line 137, in match                                                                                                                                 Apr 17 02:56:08 beaker-server beaker-server[111453]:      return _compile(pattern, flags).match(string)                                                                                                                                       Apr 17 02:56:08 beaker-server beaker-server[111453]:  TypeError: expected string or buffer  

Expected results:
No traceback

Additional info:

Comment 1 Dan Callaghan 2018-04-17 03:23:03 UTC
The line after this in the logs shows which XMLRPC method + args were being executed:

Apr 17 03:17:39 beaker-server beaker-server[122624]: bkr.server.xmlrpccontroller DEBUG Time: 0:00:02.251979 taskactions.to_xml ('J:2132598', False, True, True)

In this case, clone is the second arg, here False. The fourth arg is include_logs, here True. I think that means it's a user running bkr job-results.

Which is not great, but I was worried it was from beah trying to fetch its recipe to run. Those calls instead look like this (and they aren't affected by this bug):

Apr 17 03:21:24 beaker-server beaker-server[122523]: bkr.server.xmlrpccontroller DEBUG Time: 0:00:00.232315 taskactions.to_xml ('J:2328254',)

Comment 2 Dan Callaghan 2018-04-17 06:28:38 UTC
I suspect the best fix for this will be the same as for bug 1568217, namely that we should be populating the new installation columns on already-provisioned recipes from before the upgrade.

Comment 3 Dan Callaghan 2018-04-17 06:35:25 UTC
Actually that's not true at all... this recipe was 5 months old. It is simply the exact same problem I already found and pointed out here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=911515#c33

The fix should have been:

https://gerrit.beaker-project.org/c/5973/

but that only fixed one part of the problem. This exception is specific to guest recipes, which was not covered in that patch.

Comment 4 Dan Callaghan 2018-04-17 07:18:05 UTC
https://gerrit.beaker-project.org/6074

Comment 5 Dan Callaghan 2018-04-18 06:12:01 UTC
*** Bug 1568684 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Roman Joost 2018-04-19 03:51:03 UTC
Released with 25.2: https://beaker-project.org/docs/whats-new/release-25.html#beaker-25-2

Due to their importance and impact on systems in use, we've decided to skip an expensive self test, rely on our automated tests and get them deployed ASAP.


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