Christian Setzer wrote:

http://debugs.theforeman.org/foreman-debug-HE3AB.tar.xz

since 2 two days im having trouble with provisioning templates. after install the userdata plugin which i want to use to setup my vmware images with cloud-init the problems started.

yesterday i had a similar issue with the templates which resulted in http://paste.ubuntu.com/26124761/

then i restored from backup yesterday evening and wanted to create a host today after installing the userdata plugin again.

now the status is whatever script i try to preview for a host i get

"There was an error rendering the Katello Kickstart Default User Data template: undefined method `path' for nil:NilClass"

even if there is only a #foo in it.

i now figured out that this only affects created hosts. if i check the userdata script for example for my katello server then there is no error in the script.

[root@katello-test ~]# curl -D - -H "Content-Type: text/plain" https://katello-test.inside.local/userdata/user-data
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2017 08:48:12 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.6 (CentOS)
Cache-Control: max-age=0, private, must-revalidate
X-Request-Id: b67a7a00-ca1c-47d3-b5c7-e57278af6fc9
X-Runtime: 0.555219
X-Powered-By: Phusion Passenger 4.0.53
Set-Cookie: _session_id=cd4ae1860b910366084eb851caa5bd84; path=/; secure; HttpOnly
ETag: W/"e2fe45e4484e80b2ab49f17b39bb4dea"
Status: 200 OK
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

#cloud-config
hostname: katello-test
fqdn: katello-test.inside.local
manage_etc_hosts: true

groups:
- admin

users:
- default
- name: admin
primary-group: admin
groups: users
shell: /bin/bash
sudo: ['ALL=(ALL) ALL']
lock-passwd: false
passwd:

write_files:
- path: /tmp/foreman-userdata.sh
permissions: '0755'
content: |
#!/bin/bash

1. update all the base packages from the updates repository
   yum -t -y -e 0 update

if [ -f /usr/bin/dnf ]; then
      dnf -y install puppet
    else
      yum -t -y install puppet
    fi

cat > /etc/puppet/puppet.conf << EOF

[main]
    vardir = /var/lib/puppet
    logdir = /var/log/puppet
    rundir = /var/run/puppet
    ssldir = \$vardir/ssl

[agent]
    pluginsync      = true
    report          = true
    ignoreschedules = true
    ca_server       = katello-test.inside.local
    certname        = katello-test.inside.local
    environment     = production
    server          = katello-test.inside.local

EOF

puppet_unit=puppet
    /usr/bin/systemctl list-unit-files | grep -q puppetagent && puppet_unit=puppetagent
    /usr/bin/systemctl enable ${puppet_unit}
    /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 puppet on

1. export a custom fact called 'is_installer' to allow detection of the installer environment in Puppet modules
   export FACTER_is_installer=true
2. passing a non-existent tag like "no_such_tag" to the puppet agent only initializes the node
   /usr/bin/puppet agent --config /etc/puppet/puppet.conf --onetime --tags no_such_tag --server katello-test.inside.local --no-daemonize

phone_home:
url: http://katello-test.inside.local/unattended/built
post: []
tries: 10
runcmd:
- [ cloud-init-per, once, foreman-userdata, /tmp/foreman-userdata.sh ]
output: {all: '| tee -a /root/install.userdata.log'}

no bug at all. it was the scripts in the end. there were so many syntax errors in the templates that i had to rewrite them.

can be closed.