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Adding a new entry in clients.xml (with corresponding entries in groups.xml) fails with:

bcfg2-server[3d29375196c124405db4d256dc8368f39e9160d1] (SVN r4833): Processed 2 gamin events in 0.123 seconds. 0 collapsed
bcfg2-server[3d29375196c124405db4d256dc8368f39e9160d1] (SVN r4833): Cannot set group for client conway.wsg.mcgill.ca; no default group set
bcfg2-server[3d29375196c124405db4d256dc8368f39e9160d1] (SVN r4833): Client metadata resolution error for 132.216.177.33

Here are the corresponding entries in clients.xml and groups.xml:

clients.xml

<Client profile="ras-server" name="conway.wsg.mcgill.ca" pingable="Y"/>

groups.xml

<Group profile="true" public="false" name="ras-server">
    <Group name="el4-i386"/>
    <Group name="syslog-client"/>
    <Group name="mail-client"/>
    <Group name="postgresql-server"/>
    <Group name="httpd-server"/>
</Group>

Restarting bcfg2-server fixes the problem.

I have mistakenly included a binary file without marking it as "encoding: base64". That resulted in two things:

1. The server did not complain
2. The client crashed with the following traceback:

   Unknown failure
   Traceback (most recent call last):
     File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Bcfg2/Client/Proxy.py", line 110, in run_method
       ret = apply(method, self._authinfo + methodArgs)
     File "/usr/lib/python2.3/xmlrpclib.py", line 1029, in __call__
       return self.__send(self.__name, args)
     File "/usr/lib/python2.3/xmlrpclib.py", line 1316, in __request
       verbose=self.__verbose
     File "/usr/lib/python2.3/xmlrpclib.py", line 1080, in request
       return self._parse_response(h.getfile(), sock)
     File "/usr/lib/python2.3/xmlrpclib.py", line 1214, in _parse_response
       p.feed(response)
     File "/usr/lib/python2.3/xmlrpclib.py", line 528, in feed
       self._parser.Parse(data, 0)
   ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 35, column 120
   GetConfig failed:
   Could not connect to bcfg2
   Failed to download configuration from bcfg2
   

Setting 'encoding: base64' fixes the immediate problem. Sorry, I can't send you the misbehaving file for testing, since it's a keytab. :)

Currently bcfg2 ignores "epochs", which are part of package versioning. This is particularly noticeable with the yum driver, since the sync script generates versions with epochs, and bcfg2 will then claim that incorrect versions are installed.

To generate the list of installed packages bcfg2 currently uses:

rpm -qa --qf '%{NAME} %{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}\n'

It should instead use:

rpm -qa --qf '%{NAME} %{EPOCH}:%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}\n' | sed 's/(none)://g'

or something similar. I think it will break existing setups, though -- but it's a bug that should be fixed in order to have correct behaviour.