Starting cobbler service on Red Hat Satellite gives 'serializer: error loading collection distro. Check /etc/cobbler/modules.conf' error message.

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Issue

  • While starting cobblered service on satellite server it gives below message and then the process dies.
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 130, in __init__
self.deserialize()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 795, in deserialize
return self._config.deserialize()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/config.py", line 266, in deserialize
raise CX("serializer: error loading collection %s. Check /etc/cobbler/modules.conf" % item.collection_type())
CX: 'serializer: error loading collection distro. Check /etc/cobbler/modules.conf'

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 5.4.1
  • Cobbler

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