replicate fails to create profile

[pjelar]

When I try to replicate systems from one cobbler host to another it fails to replicate the profile across.

I'm trying to use one cobbler host as the management host and a couple other hosts running cobbler replicating for dns only.

Both hosts are running cobbler-2.0.11-2.el6.noarch

cobbler replicate --master 10.85.15.147 --systems=* --omit-data
task started: 2012-01-23_110645_replicate
task started (id=Replicate, time=Mon Jan 23 11:06:45 2012)
cobbler_master   = 10.85.15.147
profile_patterns = []
system_patterns  = ['*']
omit_data        = True
sync_all         = False
using CLI defined master
XMLRPC endpoint: http://10.85.15.147/cobbler_api
test ALPHA
test BETA
Querying Both Servers
remote names struct is {'profile': ['centos6'], 'repo': ['epel', 'core', 'base'], 'image': [], 'system': ['dns02', 'mgmt01', 'dns01'], 'distro': ['centos6']}
* Finding Explicit distro Matches
* Finding Explicit profile Matches
* Finding Explicit system Matches
?: seeing if powepgdns02 looks like *
?: seeing if powepgmgmt01 looks like *
?: seeing if powepgdns01 looks like *
* Finding Explicit repo Matches
* Finding Explicit image Matches
* Adding Profiles Required By Systems
?: requires profile: centos6
?: requires profile: centos6
?: requires profile: centos6
* Adding Profiles Required By SubProfiles
* Adding Distros Required By Profiles
Adding repo centos6 for profile centos6.
* Adding Repos Required By Profiles
* Adding Images Required By Systems
?: requires profile: centos6
?: requires profile: centos6
?: requires profile: centos6
transfer list for distro is ['centos6']
transfer list for profile is ['centos6']
transfer list for system is ['dns02', 'mgmt01', 'dns01']
transfer list for repo is ['epel', 'core', 'base']
transfer list for image is []
*NOT* Removing Objects Not Stored On Master
*NOT* Rsyncing Data
Adding Objects Not Stored On Local
adding distro centos6
adding profile centos6
Updating Objects Newer On Remote
Syncing
Exception occured: <class 'cobbler.cexceptions.CX'>
Exception value: 'system powepgdns02 references a missing profile centos6'
Exception Info:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/remote.py", line 95, in run
    rc = self._run(self)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/remote.py", line 210, in runner
    self.logger
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 782, in replicate
    sync_all         = sync_all
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/action_replicate.py", line 344, in run
    self.api.sync()
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 611, in sync
    return sync.run()
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/action_sync.py", line 123, in run
    self.pxegen.write_all_system_files(x)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/pxegen.py", line 226, in write_all_system_files
    raise CX("system %(system)s references a missing profile %(profile)s" % { "system" : system.name, "profile" : system.profile})

!!! TASK FAILED !!!

Running cobbler list reveals everything has replicated except distros and profiles:

cobbler list
distros:

profiles:

systems:
   powepgdns01
   powepgdns02
   powepgmgmt01

repos:
   base
   core
   epel

So I manually create the distro and profile:

wget http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/centos/6.1/os/x86_64/isolinux/initrd.img -O /var/lib/cobbler/loaders/centos6_initrd.img
wget http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/centos/6.1/os/x86_64/isolinux/vmlinuz -O /var/lib/cobbler/loaders/centos6_vmlinuz
cobbler distro add --name centos6 --initrd /var/lib/cobbler/loaders/centos6_initrd.img --kernel /var/lib/cobbler/loaders/centos6_vmlinuz
cobbler profile add --distro centos6 --name centos6 --name-servers "10.85.xx 10.85.xx 10.85.xx" --name-servers-search "other.subdomain.domain.com sub.domain.com domain.com" --repos "base core epel" --kickstart /var/lib/cobbler/kickstarts/default.ks

Now I can replicate once with no problems:

cobbler replicate --master 10.85.15.147 --systems=* --omit-datatask started: 2012-01-23_111622_replicate
task started (id=Replicate, time=Mon Jan 23 11:16:22 2012)
cobbler_master   = 10.85.15.147
profile_patterns = []
system_patterns  = ['*']
omit_data        = True
sync_all         = False
using CLI defined master
XMLRPC endpoint: http://10.85.15.147/cobbler_api
test ALPHA
test BETA
Querying Both Servers
remote names struct is {'profile': ['centos6'], 'repo': ['epel', 'core', 'base'], 'image': [], 'system': ['powepgdns02', 'powepgmgmt01', 'powepgdns01'], 'distro': ['centos6']}
* Finding Explicit distro Matches
* Finding Explicit profile Matches
* Finding Explicit system Matches
?: seeing if powepgdns02 looks like *
?: seeing if powepgmgmt01 looks like *
?: seeing if powepgdns01 looks like *
* Finding Explicit repo Matches
* Finding Explicit image Matches
* Adding Profiles Required By Systems
?: requires profile: centos6
?: requires profile: centos6
?: requires profile: centos6
* Adding Profiles Required By SubProfiles
* Adding Distros Required By Profiles
Adding repo centos6 for profile centos6.
* Adding Repos Required By Profiles
* Adding Images Required By Systems
?: requires profile: centos6
?: requires profile: centos6
?: requires profile: centos6
transfer list for distro is ['centos6']
transfer list for profile is ['centos6']
transfer list for system is ['powepgdns02', 'powepgmgmt01', 'powepgdns01']
transfer list for repo is ['epel', 'core', 'base']
transfer list for image is []
*NOT* Removing Objects Not Stored On Master
*NOT* Rsyncing Data
Adding Objects Not Stored On Local
adding distro centos6
adding profile centos6
Updating Objects Newer On Remote
Linking Distro centos6
Syncing
Done
*** TASK COMPLETE ***

If I try to replicate again:

cobbler replicate --master 10.85.15.147 --systems=* --omit-data
task started: 2012-01-23_111644_replicate
task started (id=Replicate, time=Mon Jan 23 11:16:44 2012)
cobbler_master   = 10.85.15.147
profile_patterns = []
system_patterns  = ['*']
omit_data        = True
sync_all         = False
using CLI defined master
XMLRPC endpoint: http://10.85.15.147/cobbler_api
test ALPHA
test BETA
Querying Both Servers
remote names struct is {'profile': ['centos6'], 'repo': ['epel', 'core', 'base'], 'image': [], 'system': ['powepgdns02', 'powepgmgmt01', 'powepgdns01'], 'distro': ['centos6']}
* Finding Explicit distro Matches
* Finding Explicit profile Matches
* Finding Explicit system Matches
?: seeing if powepgdns02 looks like *
?: seeing if powepgmgmt01 looks like *
?: seeing if powepgdns01 looks like *
* Finding Explicit repo Matches
* Finding Explicit image Matches
* Adding Profiles Required By Systems
?: requires profile: centos6
?: requires profile: centos6
?: requires profile: centos6
* Adding Profiles Required By SubProfiles
* Adding Distros Required By Profiles
Adding repo centos6 for profile centos6.
* Adding Repos Required By Profiles
* Adding Images Required By Systems
?: requires profile: centos6
?: requires profile: centos6
?: requires profile: centos6
transfer list for distro is ['centos6']
transfer list for profile is ['centos6']
transfer list for system is ['powepgdns02', 'powepgmgmt01', 'powepgdns01']
transfer list for repo is ['epel', 'core', 'base']
transfer list for image is []
*NOT* Removing Objects Not Stored On Master
*NOT* Rsyncing Data
Adding Objects Not Stored On Local
Updating Objects Newer On Remote
Linking Distro centos6
Exception occured: <type 'exceptions.NameError'>
Exception value: global name 'base' is not defined
Exception Info:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/remote.py", line 95, in run
    rc = self._run(self)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/remote.py", line 210, in runner
    self.logger
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 782, in replicate
    sync_all         = sync_all
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/action_replicate.py", line 342, in run
    self.link_distros()
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/action_replicate.py", line 193, in link_distros
    print _("- symlink creation failed: %(base)s, %(dest)s") % { "base" : base, "dest" : dest_link }

!!! TASK FAILED !!!

[drAlberT]

Same problem for me !

[jimi-c]

This appears to be a bug that was corrected in the newer versions. Any chance you could upgrade or test on a different system to confirm?

The link_distro() function is now in utils.py - not action_replicate.py anymore. It appears in the old code, the base variable was not being set (probably a cut/paste error). Looking at the code, base should be defined if that line is hit now.

[jimi-c]

Been a while since there was any action on this. As noted above, it appears this bug was fixed in the current upstream branch, so I'm closing this for now. Please reopen if there are still issues.