Cobbler doesn't work after removing kickstart profile on Red Hat Network Satellite 5.3

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • cobbler won't do anything
  • Removed a kickstart profile and then issues started
  • Tried restarting the cobbler service, but that fails
  • Get an internal server error when going to the Red Hat Network Satellite's website and then to the kickstart page
  • Errors when running cobbler commands or restarting rhn-satellite, e.g.:
# cobbler check  
invalid profile name (rhel4u8x8664:2:Connect)  
# cobbler status  
invalid profile name (rhel4u8x8664:2:Connect)  
# cobbler validateks  
invalid profile name (rhel4u8x8664:2:Connect)  
# cobbler report  
invalid profile name (rhel4u8x8664:2:Connect)  


# rhn-satellite restart  
Shutting down rhn-satellite...  
Stopping RHN Taskomatic...  
Stopped RHN Taskomatic.  
Stopping cobbler daemon:                                   [FAILED]  
Stopping rhn-search...  
Stopped rhn-search.  
Stopping MonitoringScout ...    
[ OK ]  
Stopping Monitoring ...    
[ OK ]  
Stopping httpd:                                            [  OK  ]  
Stopping tomcat5:                                          [  OK  ]  
Shutting down osa-dispatcher:                              [  OK  ]  
Shutting down Oracle Net Listener ...                      [  OK  ]  
Shutting down Oracle DB instance "rhnsat" ...              [  OK  ]  
Shutting down Jabber router:                               [  OK  ]  
Done.  
Starting rhn-satellite...  
Starting Jabber services                                   [  OK  ]  
Starting Oracle Net Listener ...                           [  OK  ]  
Starting Oracle DB instance "rhnsat" ...                   [  OK  ]  
Starting osa-dispatcher:                                   [  OK  ]  
Starting tomcat5:                                          [  OK  ]  
Starting httpd:                                            [  OK  ]  
Starting Monitoring ...    
[ OK ]  
Starting MonitoringScout ...    
[ OK ]  
Starting rhn-search...  
Starting cobbler daemon: invalid profile name (rhel4u8x8664:2:Connect)  

                                                           [  OK  ]  
Starting RHN Taskomatic...  
[  OK  ]

Environment

  • Red Hat Network Satellite version 5.3.x

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