Packages plugin doesn't initialize properly

[strauss]

Steps to reproduce:

• Install bcfg2-server
• Enable and configure the Packages plugin's config.xml file.
• Restart bcfg2-server
• Run bcfg2-admin xcmd Packages.Refresh

You get a backtrace:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/bcfg2-admin", line 78, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/sbin/bcfg2-admin", line 70, in main
    mode(args[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Bcfg2/Server/Admin/Xcmd.py", line 42, in __call__
    data = apply(getattr(proxy, cmd), args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Bcfg2/Proxy.py", line 79, in __call__
    raise xmlrpclib.Fault(20, "Server Failure")
xmlrpclib.Fault: <Fault 20: 'Server Failure'>

Workaround (after the steps to reproduce above):

• Remove all files from /var/lib/bcfg2/Packages/cache/
• Run bcfg2-admin xcmd Packages.Refresh again.
• Should see "True" as the response.

This has been verified on Ubuntu 8.04 and RHEL 5.

[solj]

Weird, I can't reproduce the error on lucid. I'm guessing this may have something to do with the server-side failure. Do you see any backtraces there?

[desai]

I'm pretty sure this is fixed by some code improvements I just checked in [4b84fa15c231c5ad72d261fdb27c470a386de4b3] (SVN r5722). Please re-ping if you see this again.