Kickstart profile creation/editing fails with error in satellite webui

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Issue

  • While selecting any Kickstart Profile it fails with following message:-

"There are errors in your kickstart template. Please check the template errors to determine the problem with the template"

Kickstart Profile Error Message:

Mod_python error: "PythonHandler services"

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/mod_python/apache.py", line 299, in HandlerDispatch
    result = object(req)

  File "/var/www/cobbler/svc/services.py", line 89, in handler
    content = func( **form )

  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/services.py", line 87, in ks
    data = self.remote.generate_kickstart(profile,system,REMOTE_ADDR,REMOTE_MAC)

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1096, in __call__
    return self.__send(self.__name, args)

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1383, in __request
    verbose=self.__verbose

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1147, in request
    return self._parse_response(h.getfile(), sock)

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1286, in _parse_response
    return u.close()

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 744, in close
    raise Fault(**self._stack[0])

Fault: <Fault 1: "cobbler.cexceptions.CX:'profile RHEL5-standalone:1:BankForInternationalSettlements-Test references missing distro ksrhelx8664server5u4'">

Environment

  • Red Hat Network Satellite 5.3

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