Unexpected instantiation failure for plugin Packages

[m4z <[email protected]…>]

For one repository, I get an error (all others work fine):

# bcfg2-server -dv | tee -a /var/log/bcfg2-server.log
failed to read file /var/lib/bcfg2/Packages/cache/http:@@[email protected]@[email protected]@[email protected]@Packages.gz
Packages: File read failed; falling back to file download
updating http://ftp.freenet.de/debian/dists/testing/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
Unexpected instantiation failure for plugin Packages
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Bcfg2/Server/Core.py", line 129, in init_plugins
    self.plugins[plugin] = plug(self, self.datastore)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Bcfg2/Server/Plugins/Packages.py", line 432, in __init__
    source.setup_data()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Bcfg2/Server/Plugins/Packages.py", line 60, in setup_data
    self.update()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Bcfg2/Server/Plugins/Packages.py", line 84, in update
    data = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 124, in urlopen
    return _opener.open(url, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 387, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 498, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 425, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 360, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 506, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
HTTPError: HTTP Error 406: Not acceptable
service available at https://bcfg2:6789
serving bcfg2 at https://bcfg2:6789
serve_forever() [start]
Failed to find IP address for somehost
Handled 75 events in 0.486s

The corresponding entry from Packages/config.xml:

<APTSource>
    <Group>debian-testing</Group>
    <URL>http://ftp.freenet.de/debian</URL>
    <Version>testing</Version>
    <Component>main</Component>
    <Component>contrib</Component>
    <Component>non-free</Component>
    <Arch>i386</Arch>
</APTSource>

Despite the confusing hostname, this is a valid HTTP repo (see ​http://www.debian.org/mirror/list).

[m4z <…>]

This seems to have serious consequences: I have a bcfg repository that works fine for hosts in group X as long as the package repo from above (also for group X) is commented. Stuffs breaks when I uncomment the repository (and get the above error): Suddenly I get "Failed to bind entry" messages for every Package and Bundle for every host, not only in group X, but in every group.

[desai]

This should be fixed as of [002f89d7f52dd00e995eacb633ce0b36c087f7a5] (SVN r5491)