Cobbler sync task fails with null pointer exceptions

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Internal Server Error when viewing kickstart profiles
  • Missing cobbler profiles in /var/lib/cobbler/config/profiles.d directory
  • Taskomatic continues in endless cycle trying to sync Cobbler profiles
  • Java stack trace in /var/log/rhn/rhn_taskomatic_daemon.log file
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2014/11/12 09:48:06 | java.lang.NullPointerException
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2014/11/12 09:48:06 |   at com.redhat.rhn.manager.kickstart.KickstartFormatter.getUpdatePackages(KickstartFormatter.java:931)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2014/11/12 09:48:06 |   at com.redhat.rhn.manager.kickstart.KickstartFormatter.getRhnPost(KickstartFormatter.java:694)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2014/11/12 09:48:06 |   at com.redhat.rhn.manager.kickstart.KickstartFormatter.getFileData(KickstartFormatter.java:289)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2014/11/12 09:48:06 |   at com.redhat.rhn.domain.kickstart.KickstartFactory.saveKickstartData(KickstartFactory.java:445)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2014/11/12 09:48:06 |   at com.redhat.rhn.domain.kickstart.KickstartFactory.saveKickstartData(KickstartFactory.java:479)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2014/11/12 09:48:06 |   at com.redhat.rhn.manager.kickstart.cobbler.CobblerProfileCreateCommand.store(CobblerProfileCreateCommand.java:73)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2014/11/12 09:48:06 |   at com.redhat.rhn.manager.kickstart.cobbler.CobblerProfileSyncCommand.createProfile(CobblerProfileSyncCommand.java:118)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2014/11/12 09:48:06 |   at com.redhat.rhn.manager.kickstart.cobbler.CobblerProfileSyncCommand.store(CobblerProfileSyncCommand.java:90)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2014/11/12 09:48:06 |   at com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.CobblerSyncTask.execute(CobblerSyncTask.java:123)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2014/11/12 09:48:06 |   at com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.RhnJavaJob.execute(RhnJavaJob.java:82)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2014/11/12 09:48:06 |   at com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.TaskoJob.execute(TaskoJob.java:169)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2014/11/12 09:48:06 |   at org.quartz.core.JobRunShell.run(JobRunShell.java:216)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2014/11/12 09:48:06 |   at org.quartz.simpl.SimpleThreadPool$WorkerThread.run(SimpleThreadPool.java:549)

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 5.6

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