I was collaborating with my Polish colleague this late afternoon to enhance a few snippets. After we were done, I put his name as part of embedded comments of a template.
Suddenly, none of our systems could PXE boot! For CentOS, I observed: Errors downloading kickstart file Unable to download the kickstart file. Please modify the kickstart parameter below or press Cancel to proceed as an interactive installation http://192.168.123.3/cblr/svc/op/ks/system/ctos1 [OK] [Cancel] # cobbler system getks --name=ctos1 returns ### ERROR ### Unexpected remote error, check the server side logs for further info <type 'exceptions.NameError'>:global name 'out_path' is not defined Apache error log shows: [...] [Sat Oct 06 20:48:57 2012] [error] [client 192.168.123.102] Fault: <Fault 1: "<type 'exceptions.NameError'>:global name 'out_path' is not defined"> [Sat Oct 06 20:49:01 2012] [error] [client 192.168.123.102] mod_wsgi (pid=1774): Exception occurred processing WSGI script '/var/www/cobbler/svc/services.py'. [Sat Oct 06 20:49:01 2012] [error] [client 192.168.123.102] Traceback (most recent call last): [Sat Oct 06 20:49:01 2012] [error] [client 192.168.123.102] File "/var/www/cobbler/svc/services.py", line 83, in application [Sat Oct 06 20:49:01 2012] [error] [client 192.168.123.102] content = func( **form ) [Sat Oct 06 20:49:01 2012] [error] [client 192.168.123.102] File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/services.py", line 76, in ks [Sat Oct 06 20:49:01 2012] [error] [client 192.168.123.102] data = self.remote.generate_kickstart(profile,system,REMOTE_ADDR,REMOTE_MAC) [Sat Oct 06 20:49:01 2012] [error] [client 192.168.123.102] File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1199, in __call__ [Sat Oct 06 20:49:01 2012] [error] [client 192.168.123.102] return self.__send(self.__name, args) [Sat Oct 06 20:49:01 2012] [error] [client 192.168.123.102] File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1489, in __request [Sat Oct 06 20:49:01 2012] [error] [client 192.168.123.102] verbose=self.__verbose [Sat Oct 06 20:49:01 2012] [error] [client 192.168.123.102] File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1253, in request [Sat Oct 06 20:49:01 2012] [error] [client 192.168.123.102] return self._parse_response(h.getfile(), sock) [Sat Oct 06 20:49:01 2012] [error] [client 192.168.123.102] File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1392, in _parse_response [Sat Oct 06 20:49:01 2012] [error] [client 192.168.123.102] return u.close() [Sat Oct 06 20:49:01 2012] [error] [client 192.168.123.102] File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 838, in close [Sat Oct 06 20:49:01 2012] [error] [client 192.168.123.102] raise Fault(**self._stack[0]) [...] It's just a simple character ł As soon as I remove it, everything goes back to normal. Anytime it's in, the hell breaks loose :-( Finally, with a sincere apology to my colleague, I put in his nickname into the comment as a get around. Looks like the Cheetah template engine has some issues with utf8? Regards, --Zack _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
