bcfg2-server crashed with Fault in critical_error()

[Frode Egeland]

Binary package hint: bcfg2

I got a crash report on startup, so decided to restart the bcfg2-server, would it be because of deprecated module use?:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/bcfg2-server restart
Stopping Configuration Management Server: * bcfg2-server
Starting Configuration Management Server: /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Bcfg2/Client/Tools/__init__.py:12: DeprecationWarning: The popen2 module is deprecated. Use the subprocess module.
  import os, popen2, stat, sys, Bcfg2.Client.XML, time
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Bcfg2/tlslite/utils/cryptomath.py:9: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead
  import sha
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Bcfg2/tlslite/mathtls.py:7: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
  import md5
 * bcfg2-server

$ ps -ef |grep bcfg
root 3232 1 0 11:09 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/bcfg2-server -D /var/run/bcfg2-server.pid

This is on Karmic alpha4 on AMD64.

bcfg2-server:
  Installed: 0.9.6-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 0.9.6-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.6-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://ftp.iinet.net.au karmic/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Aug 30 11:09:54 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/bcfg2-server
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
Package: bcfg2-server 0.9.6-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/bcfg2-server -D /var/run/bcfg2-server.pid
ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-15.49-generic
PythonArgs: ['/usr/sbin/bcfg2-server', '-D', '/var/run/bcfg2-server.pid']
SourcePackage: bcfg2
Title: bcfg2-server crashed with Fault in critical_error()
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic x86_64
UserGroups:

[Sol Jerome (solj)]

This release was out well before this version of Python was in use. I would recommend upgrading to the 1.0 release candidate by adding the Bcfg2 PPA (https://launchpad.net/~bcfg2/+archive/ppa). This release has been tested on karmic.

[Sol Jerome (solj)]

The 1.0.0 release is out now. We are tracking current packages on the bcfg2 launchpad page (https://launchpad.net/~bcfg2). I have tried both server and client on karmic and they both work.

[Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab)]

Ubuntu 9.10 will be EOL within a month. The best course of action here would be to either use the PPA, then/or upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04 when it's out as it will have the bcfg2 version that has the fix.