Starting or restarting cobblerd service on Red Hat satellite server 5.6 fails with a message "cobblerd dead but subsys locked"
Issue
- Cobbler service status is dead
[root@satellite ~]# service cobblerd status
cobblerd dead but subsys locked
- Cobbler service throws a traceback as below
[root@satellite ~]# service cobblerd start
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 128, in __init__
self.deserialize()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 689, in deserialize
return self._config.deserialize()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/config.py", line 206, in deserialize
serializer.deserialize(self._distros)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/serializer.py", line 122, in deserialize
rc = storage_module.deserialize(obj,topological)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/modules/serializer_catalog.py", line 186, in deserialize
datastruct = deserialize_raw(obj.collection_type())
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/modules/serializer_catalog.py", line 156, in deserialize_raw
datastruct = simplejson.loads(ydata, encoding='utf-8')
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/simplejson/__init__.py", line 318, in loads
return cls(encoding=encoding, **kw).decode(s)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/simplejson/decoder.py", line 335, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/simplejson/decoder.py", line 353, in raw_decode
raise ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded")
ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded [ OK ]
- Cobbler profile entries shows as zero
[root@satellite ~]# ls -l /var/lib/cobbler/config/profiles.d
total 0
Environment
- Red Hat Satellite Server 5.6
- Cobbler
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