Description of problem: Exception generated when switching the installer generation of a kickstart distribution: How reproducible: Seemingly 100%. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Setup a kickstart distribution, in my case CentOS 5 with generation of RHEL 5. 2. Create a kickstart profile attached to this distribution. (important step) 3. Go back to the details for your distribution and change installer generation to something else. Actual results: 2009-03-30 15:56:51,817 [TP-Processor7] ERROR org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/rhn].[action] - Servlet.service() for servlet action threw exception redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcFault: <class 'cobbler.cexceptions.CX'>:'removal would orphan profile: centos:1:Spacewalk-Public-Cert' at redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClient.handleResponse(XmlRpcClient.java:443) at redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClient.endCall(XmlRpcClient.java:376) at redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClient.invoke(XmlRpcClient.java:165) at org.cobbler.CobblerConnection.invokeMethod(CobblerConnection.java:122) at org.cobbler.CobblerConnection.invokeTokenMethod(CobblerConnection.java:158) at org.cobbler.Distro.invokeRename(Distro.java:141) at org.cobbler.CobblerObject.setName(CobblerObject.java:332) at com.redhat.rhn.manager.kickstart.cobbler.CobblerDistroEditCommand.store(CobblerDistroEditCommand.java:51) at com.redhat.rhn.manager.kickstart.tree.BaseTreeEditOperation.store(BaseTreeEditOperation.java:83) at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.action.BaseEditAction.execute(BaseEditAction.java:62) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:431) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:237) at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.struts.RhnRequestProcessor.process(RhnRequestProcessor.java:82) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1196) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doPost(ActionServlet.java:432) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:647) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188) at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.AuthFilter.doFilter(AuthFilter.java:73) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188) at com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter.parsePage(PageFilter.java:142) at com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter.doFilter(PageFilter.java:58) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188) at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.LocalizedEnvironmentFilter.doFilter(LocalizedEnvironmentFilter.java:67) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188) at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.EnvironmentFilter.doFilter(EnvironmentFilter.java:108) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188) at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.SessionFilter.doFilter(SessionFilter.java:55) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188) at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:97) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:172) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:174) at org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler.invoke(JkCoyoteHandler.java:200) at org.apache.jk.common.HandlerRequest.invoke(HandlerRequest.java:283) at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.invoke(ChannelSocket.java:773) at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.processConnection(ChannelSocket.java:703) at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket$SocketConnection.runIt(ChannelSocket.java:895) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:689) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636) Expected results: Modified installer generation, or if this is no longer supported a warning or perhaps removing the option to modify the generation entirely.
tested this and it works for me
Spacewalk 0.6 released