[Debian-ha-maintainers] Bug#931114: Bug#931114: cluster-glue: ibmrsa-telnet not python3 ready

[Valentin Vidić]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 12:41:29PM +0200, Pierre Dinh van wrote:
> I just upgraded my corosync cluster to buster, and the stonith external helper /usr/lib/stonith/plugins/external/ibmrsa-telnet wasn't starting anymore :
> 
> Jun 26 12:02:16 nfs4-c external/ibmrsa-telnet[22786]: [22848]: ERROR: Exception raised: cannot use a string pattern on a bytes-like object
> Jun 26 12:02:17 nfs4-c stonith: [22764]: WARN: external_status: 'ibmrsa-telnet status' failed with rc 1
> Jun 26 12:02:17 nfs4-c stonith: [22764]: ERROR: external/ibmrsa-telnet device not accessible.
> Jun 26 12:02:17 nfs4-c pacemaker-fenced[2062]:  warning: stonith-nfs-a:22639 [ Performing: stonith -t external/ibmrsa-telnet -E -S ]
> 
> I changed the #!/usr/bin/python3 to #!/usr/bin/python2 and it works back.
> 
> Looks like it's not python3 ready.

Thanks for the report. I will try to reproduce and fix for python3 but you can
also try to use fence_rsa from the fence-agents package.  That is what the
upstream maintains these days and probably works better with python3.

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Valentin