On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 06:26, Léon Keijser <keijser@stone-it.com> wrote:
On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 02:25 +0000, Greg Swift wrote:

> How not to screw up your installation base like I did:
>
> 1: checkout repository
> 2: in main directory of repository run "sudo make webtest"

Hi Greg,

I screwed up my installation :P

During the make webtest i got:

Starting cobbler daemon: Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/bin/cobblerd", line 76, in main
   api = cobbler_api.BootAPI(is_cobblerd=True)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 131, in
__init__
   self.deserialize()
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 792, in
deserialize
   return self._config.deserialize()
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cobbler/config.py", line 257,
in deserialize
   serializer.deserialize(self._distros)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cobbler/serializer.py", line
122, in deserialize
   rc = storage_module.deserialize(obj,topological)
 File
"/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cobbler/modules/serializer_catalog.py", line 226, in deserialize
   obj.from_datastruct(datastruct)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cobbler/collection.py", line
158, in from_datastruct
   self.add(item)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cobbler/collection.py", line
276, in add
   self.lite_sync = action_litesync.BootLiteSync(self.config,
logger=logger)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cobbler/action_litesync.py",
line 55, in __init__
   "tftpd","module","in_tftpd"
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cobbler/module_loader.py", line
96, in get_module_from_file
   raise CX(_("Failed to load module for %s/%s") % (category,field))
CX: 'Failed to load module for tftpd/module'


then when accessing the webpage i get:

ImportError: Settings cannot be imported, because environment variable
DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE is undefined.

I got that tftp error as well....and for the life of me i can't remember what the fix was.  I originally assumed that it was a side affect of doing the "make install", but since your getting it now I guess not.  When I get home (I keep saying when i get some place don't i?)  I'll look at my cli history to find what i did to fix it.  I remember looking into making sure i had the tftp server properly installed, but it had been running before I did the install..  but i think the 2.1+ cobbler actually has this as a config option in modules.conf.  Where you on 2.0.x before this?

Jonathan is right... for everyone not doing ubteen updates in a row for single line fixes, rolling an RPM using 'make' and then installing the RPMs is a much better path.