Cobbler service failing with error 'AttributeError: /usr/bin/python: undefined symbol: pam_start' when starting Red Hat Satellite

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Issue

  • Cobbler service failing with following error when starting Red Hat Satellite.
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/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 127, in __init__
    module_loader.load_modules()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/module_loader.py", line 62, in load_modules
    blip =  __import__("modules.%s" % ( modname), globals(), locals(), [modname])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/modules/authn_pam.py", line 121, in <module>
    PAM_START = LIBPAM.pam_start
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/ctypes/__init__.py", line 366, in __getattr__
    func = self.__getitem__(name)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/ctypes/__init__.py", line 371, in __getitem__
    func = self._FuncPtr((name_or_ordinal, self))
AttributeError: /usr/bin/python: undefined symbol: pam_start

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 5.4
  • cobbler-2.2.3-2.el6.noarch

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