Hi Mark.
While it is possible for DC, AI and other tools to be enhanced with
better diagnostic output, there is a tool delivered with the others
which can be used to figure out where the errors are in a manifest.
On your install server, run it as follows:
/usr/bin/ManifestServ -t -v -f /usr/share/auto_install/ai_manifest
<manifest_file.xml>
The -t option dumps the temporary file. The -v option gives verbose
validation (and default setting) output.
In general, there are two kinds of validation failure: semantic
validation, and validation vs schema. AI does only schema validation,
as far as I can tell.
For schema validation: when there are errors, you will see a line number
in the temporary file and "Relax-NG validity error". Look up the line
in the temporary file and match it to the one in your manifest.
For completeness, please note that the same command can be used to check
DC manifests.
- The command to run ManifestServ is:
/usr/bin/ManifestServ -t -v -f /usr/share/distro_const/DC-manifest
<manifest_file.xml>
- DC does semantic validation too, which runs methods on the data to
check it. The validator methods are here:
usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/osol_install/distro_const/ValidatorModule.py
If semantic validation fails, you will see something like this:
Validating node(s) at nodepath img_params/user/homedir
Processing new parent node
call validator method is_abs_path()
validate_node: Content "export/home/jack" at img_params/user/homedir did
not validate
This particular example says that the is_abs_path() validator method
failed to validate the value export/home/jack at img_params/user/homedir.
I hope that helps,
Jack
On 02/17/09 16:37, MARK BLEND wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One time I ran the automated install tool and it told me that my
> manifest failed
> validation. The program new where it failed but refused to tell me so
> I began
> to trouble shoot my one page manifest, un-necessarily.
>
> Mark
>
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