cobbler "I'm starting install" download fails

[Chris Ricker]

The cobbler preseed does

d-i preseed/early_command string wget -O /dev/null http://$http_server:$http_por
t/cblr/svc/op/trig/mode/pre/system/$system_name

which is needed to let cobbler know that an install is starting

This generates the red-screen Ubuntu installer hang on the installing client:

'Download debconf prefconfiguration file

Failed to run preseeded command

Execution of preseeded command "wget -O /dev/null http://172.29.75.141/cblr/svc/op/trig/mode/pre/system/ci-big-storage1" failed with exit code 1.'

The apache error log shows that its because the CGI is crashing:

[Sat Dec 21 11:18:43 2013] [error] [client 172.29.75.132] mod_wsgi (pid=6010): Exception occurred processing WSGI script '/var/www/cobbler/svc/services.py'.
[Sat Dec 21 11:18:43 2013] [error] [client 172.29.75.132] Traceback (most recent call last):
[Sat Dec 21 11:18:43 2013] [error] [client 172.29.75.132] File "/var/www/cobbler/svc/services.py", line 79, in application
[Sat Dec 21 11:18:43 2013] [error] [client 172.29.75.132] content = func( **form )
[Sat Dec 21 11:18:43 2013] [error] [client 172.29.75.132] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cobbler/services.py", line 135, in trig
[Sat Dec 21 11:18:43 2013] [error] [client 172.29.75.132] rc = self.remote.run_install_triggers(mode,"system",system,ip)
[Sat Dec 21 11:18:43 2013] [error] [client 172.29.75.132] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1224, in __call__
[Sat Dec 21 11:18:43 2013] [error] [client 172.29.75.132] return self.__send(self.__name, args)
[Sat Dec 21 11:18:43 2013] [error] [client 172.29.75.132] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1578, in __request
[Sat Dec 21 11:18:43 2013] [error] [client 172.29.75.132] verbose=self.__verbose
[Sat Dec 21 11:18:43 2013] [error] [client 172.29.75.132] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1264, in request
[Sat Dec 21 11:18:43 2013] [error] [client 172.29.75.132] return self.single_request(host, handler, request_body, verbose)
[Sat Dec 21 11:18:43 2013] [error] [client 172.29.75.132] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1297, in single_request
[Sat Dec 21 11:18:43 2013] [error] [client 172.29.75.132] return self.parse_response(response)
[Sat Dec 21 11:18:43 2013] [error] [client 172.29.75.132] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1473, in parse_response
[Sat Dec 21 11:18:43 2013] [error] [client 172.29.75.132] return u.close()
[Sat Dec 21 11:18:43 2013] [error] [client 172.29.75.132] File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 793, in close
[Sat Dec 21 11:18:43 2013] [error] [client 172.29.75.132] raise Fault(**self._stack[0])
[Sat Dec 21 11:18:43 2013] [error] [client 172.29.75.132] Fault: <Fault 1: "<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>:warning() takes exactly 2 arguments (3 given)">

[Chris Ricker (chris-ricker)]

cobbler log shows this is blowing up when executing the puppet cert integration scripts:

Thu Jan 2 18:36:05 2014 - INFO | Exception Info:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cobbler/remote.py", line 1944, in _dispatch
    return method_handle(*params)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cobbler/remote.py", line 1283, 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/python2.7/dist-packages/cobbler/utils.py", line 916, in run_triggers
    rc = m.run(api, arglist, logger)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cobbler/modules/install_pre_puppet.py", line 50, in run
    logger.warning("failed to execute %s", puppetca_path)

Issue is that scripts are coded for old puppet syntax and are broken by the move to puppet 3

cobbler 1:2.2.2-0cisco34 built and added to Cisco repo to resolve issue