[cobbler] cobbler system add trigger a crash

[William Muriithi]

Good afternoon,

[root@cobbler ~]# rpm -qa | grep cobbler
cobbler-2.6.11-1.el6.x86_64
cobbler-web-2.6.11-1.el6.noarch
[root@cobbler ~]#


I am running into an odd issue where I can use a profile interactively
and have a successful install.  However, if I use that profile and
create a system specific profile, I am not able to have a successful
install for both RHEL6 and RHEL7.  I am getting the following error
from cobbler logs



Tue Sep 13 17:40:59 2016 - INFO | REMOTE save_item(system);
user(<DIRECT>);
object_id(___NEW___system::gOQ9mTSmZVfODQWldpv/MPykzLe6WuH9Ew==)
Tue Sep 13 17:40:59 2016 - DEBUG | REMOTE CLI Authorized; user(?)
Tue Sep 13 17:40:59 2016 - INFO | add_item(system); ['silicon']
Tue Sep 13 17:40:59 2016 - DEBUG | get_items; ['system']
Tue Sep 13 17:40:59 2016 - DEBUG | done with get_items; ['system']
Tue Sep 13 17:40:59 2016 - WARNING | errors were encountered rendering
the template
Tue Sep 13 17:40:59 2016 - WARNING |
[{'code': u'VFFSL(SL,"grub_menu_items",True)',
  'exc_val': NotFound("cannot find 'grub_menu_items'",),
  'lineCol': (6, 1),
  'rawCode': u'$grub_menu_items',
  'time': 'Tue Sep 13 17:40:59 2016'}]
Tue Sep 13 17:40:59 2016 - INFO | generating:
/var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/01-d4-ae-52-af-7d-da
Tue Sep 13 17:40:59 2016 - INFO | generating:
/var/lib/tftpboot/grub/01-D4-AE-52-AF-7D-DA

The resulting pxelinux.cfg is incomplete as seen below:

[root@cobbler ~]# cat  /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/01-d4-ae-52-af-7d-da
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(nd)/splash.xpm.gz

$grub_menu_items


Have anybody seen this before?
Regards,

William