[rancid] Re: viewvc premature end of script problem rancid

[Lance Vermilion]

Martin,

Can you post your viewvc.conf? and the directory listing of where your
rancid CVS is? that should make it easy to fix this issue...hopefully.

2010/8/5 Martin Kristensen <martikri at gmail.com>:
> Hi
> I used the RhysEvans guide to install rancid and everything seems to be
> working except viewvc.
> I used tortois to verify that the cvs is working, but I really want the
> viewvc web interface to work too.
>
> This is what I see in the apache error log:
>
> [Wed Aug 04 13:30:56 2010] [error] [client 192.168.101.3] Traceback (most
> recent call last):
> [Wed Aug 04 13:30:56 2010] [error] [client 192.168.101.3]   File
> "/var/www/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi", line 60, in ?
> [Wed Aug 04 13:30:56 2010] [error] [client 192.168.101.3]     cfg =
> viewvc.load_config(CONF_
> PATHNAME, server)
> [Wed Aug 04 13:30:56 2010] [error] [client 192.168.101.3]   File
> "/usr/local/viewvc-1.0.12/lib/viewvc.py", line 3679, in load_config
> [Wed Aug 04 13:30:56 2010] [error] [client 192.168.101.3]
> cfg.load_config(pathname, server and server.getenv("HTTP_HOST"))
> [Wed Aug 04 13:30:56 2010] [error] [client 192.168.101.3]   File
> "/usr/local/viewvc-1.0.12/lib/config.py", line 57, in load_config
> [Wed Aug 04 13:30:56 2010] [error] [client 192.168.101.3]
> parser.read(pathname)
> [Wed Aug 04 13:30:56 2010] [error] [client 192.168.101.3]   File
> "/usr/lib64/python2.4/ConfigParser.py", line 267, in read
> [Wed Aug 04 13:30:56 2010] [error] [client 192.168.101.3]     self._read(fp,
> filename)
> [Wed Aug 04 13:30:56 2010] [error] [client 192.168.101.3]   File
> "/usr/lib64/python2.4/ConfigParser.py", line 462, in _read
> [Wed Aug 04 13:30:56 2010] [error] [client 192.168.101.3]     raise
> MissingSectionHeaderError(fpname, lineno, line)
> [Wed Aug 04 13:30:56 2010] [error] [client 192.168.101.3]
> ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers.
> [Wed Aug 04 13:30:56 2010] [error] [client 192.168.101.3] file:
> /usr/local/viewvc-1.0.12/viewvc.conf, line: 15
> [Wed Aug 04 13:30:56 2010] [error] [client 192.168.101.3] '
> \\t#cvs_roots = cvs: /usr/local/rancid/var/CVS\\n'
> [Wed Aug 04 13:30:56 2010] [error] [client 192.168.101.3] Premature end of
> script headers: viewvc.cgi
>
> I also get almost the same error message when I runcvsdbadmin rebuild
> (point 29 in the guide) :
>
> [root at rancid viewvc-1.1.6]# /usr/local/viewvc-1.1.6/bin/./cvsdbadmin rebuild
> /usr/local/rancid/var/CVS/CVSROOT
>
> Using repository root `/usr/local/rancid/var/CVS'
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/local/viewvc-1.1.6/bin/./cvsdbadmin", line 174, in ?
>     cfg = viewvc.load_config(CONF_PATHNAME)
>   File "/usr/local/viewvc-1.1.6/lib/viewvc.py", line 4277, in load_config
>     cfg.load_config(pathname, server and server.getenv("HTTP_HOST"))
>   File "/usr/local/viewvc-1.1.6/lib/config.py", line 148, in load_config
>     self.parser.read(self.conf_path or [])
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/ConfigParser.py", line 267, in read
>     self._read(fp, filename)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/ConfigParser.py", line 462, in _read
>     raise MissingSectionHeaderError(fpname, lineno, line)
> ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers.
> file: /usr/local/viewvc-1.1.6/viewvc.conf, line: 70
> 'cvs_roots = cvs:\n'
>
> Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong ?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Martin
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