On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Ronald J Yacketta <yacketrj@potsdam.edu> wrote:

> I have a cobbler instance that is throwing out exceptions trying to output
> a
> system kickstart that includes a single snippet. Anyone have any ideas
> why
> this would occur? The cheetah lib installed is 2.4.3.
>
>
> # *** ERROR ***
> #
> # There is a templating error preventing this file from rendering
> correctly.
> #
> # This is most likely not due to a bug in Cobbler and is something you can
> fix.
> #
> # Look at the message below to see what things are causing problems.
> #
> # (1) Does the template file reference a $variable that is not defined?
> # (2) is there a formatting error in a Cheetah directive?
> # (3) Should dollar signs ($) be escaped that are not being escaped?
> #
> # Try fixing the problem and then investigate to see if this message goes
> # away or changes.
> #
> #
> # SNIPPET() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)
> # File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/templar.py", line
> 121, in render
> # data_out = t.respond()
> #
> # File
> "cheetah_DynamicallyCompiledCheetahTemplate_1285571699_18_51035.py",
> line 225, in respond
> #
> # File
> "cheetah_DynamicallyCompiledCheetahTemplate_1285571699_18_51035.py",
> line 77, in __errorCatcher2
> #
> # File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
> #

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Most of the snippet issues I have ran into were related to #3.

Ensure all $'s are escaped (\$) or enclose the SNIPPET(..) directive with
#raw ie:

#raw
SNIPPET(...)
#end raw

-Ron

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