Cobbler throwing 'list index out of range' message when kickstarting a system

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • When kickstarting system cobbler is throwing error as below,
Tue Jan 14 13:33:11 2014 - INFO | Exception occured: <type 'exceptions.IndexError'>
Tue Jan 14 13:33:11 2014 - INFO | Exception value: list index out of range
Tue Jan 14 13:33:11 2014 - INFO | Exception Info:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/remote.py", line 1759, in _dispatch
    return method_handle(*params)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/remote.py", line 1210, in run_install_triggers
    utils.run_triggers(self.api, None, "/var/lib/cobbler/triggers/install/%s/*" % mode, additional=[objtype,name,ip],logger=self.logger)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/utils.py", line 861, in run_triggers
    rc = m.run(api, arglist, logger)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/modules/install_pre_log.py", line 23, in run
    ip      = args[2] # ip or "?"

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 5.6

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