Internal Server Error when changing kickstart profile operating system on RHN Satellite 5.4

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

When trying to change the operating system of a kickstart profile from RHEL 6.0 to RHEL 6.1, an Internal Server Error is displayed in the webUI and in the tomcat logs the following error is reported:

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException     at com.redhat.rhn.manager.kickstart.KickstartEditCommand.updateKickstartableTree(KickstartEditCommand.java:228)
     at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.action.kickstart.KickstartSoftwareEditAction.processFormValues(KickstartSoftwareEditAction.java:223)
     at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.action.kickstart.BaseKickstartEditAction.execute(BaseKickstartEditAction.java:80)
     at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:431)
     ... 40 more

Environment

  • RHN Satellite 5.4.1

Resolution 

When modifying the kickstart's kickstart tree via the satellite web UI, first make sure the Advanced Options 'url' option is checked and a string is provided for the url.

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