Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 461693
Cobbler update failed
Last modified: 2008-09-11 16:06:42 EDT
Description of problem: Update of cobbler failed Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cobbler-1.2.0-1.fc9.noarch.rpm How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum update 2. 3. Actual results: Failed during update and gave a traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/cobbler", line 17, in <module> import cobbler.cobbler as app File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line 26, in <module> import api File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 207 <<<<<<< HEAD:cobbler/api.py ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax Stopping cobbler daemon: [ OK ] Starting cobbler daemon: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/cobblerd", line 19, in <module> import cobbler.api as bootapi File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 207 <<<<<<< HEAD:cobbler/api.py ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax [FAILED] error: %post(cobbler-1.2.0-1.fc9.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 Expected results: cobbler updates without issue Additional info:
Hi John, For whatever reason, Fedora has 1.2.0 in updates since updates have just been turned back on, though fixes have been in queue for some time and I submitted 1.2.1 a couple of days after 1.2.0 came out. While Fedora mirrors will have 1.2.4 soon, you can also find the latest at http://people.fedoraproject.org/~mdehaan/files/cobbler/ Upgrading to 1.2.4 is recommended, and you can do this with RPM if you do not want to wait for the mirrors. --Michael
Fetched 1.2.4 straight from koji. Install was successful. Would however note that the install was noisy which it shouldn't be. Output was: Running Transaction Updating : cobbler [1/3] reading from old config format: /var/lib/cobbler/distros auto-removing old config format: /var/lib/cobbler/distros reading from old config format: /var/lib/cobbler/repos auto-removing old config format: /var/lib/cobbler/repos reading from old config format: /var/lib/cobbler/profiles auto-removing old config format: /var/lib/cobbler/profiles reading from old config format: /var/lib/cobbler/systems auto-removing old config format: /var/lib/cobbler/systems Cleanup : cobbler [2/3] Cleanup : cobbler [3/3]
Cobbler should not migrate your configs unless you replaced your modules.conf with modules.conf.rpmnew.
I have never touched modules.conf and there is also no modules.con.rpmnew. In fact i have never even touched cobbler. Only installed a few months to solve a possible problem with another system but never ended up needing it so never touched any configs. It just sits there and gets updated with the rest of y packages. Noise is not big deal for me. Just thought you should know it was appearing despite the fact the general rule in packaging is to keep the noise down to only showing errors. New package does at least solve the issue with failing update.
That message for upgrading users is pretty signfigant and they would want to see it, for new installs, that should /not/ be there. I am guessing it is a side effect of the past install not completing all the way though I can't be certain. I would not be worried about it though I'll do some clean install testing to make sure in normal scenarios that output is not printed as it clearly doesn't apply. Glad your update issue is resolved. Thanks!