Python error when configuring Web components on SLES12SP2

  • 7018310
  • 22-Nov-2016
  • 12-Dec-2016

Environment

Novell GroupWise 2014

Situation

When configuring the web components of GroupWise 2014 R2 on a SLES12SP2 server, a python error is returned.

                                     File "install.py", line 4, in <module>
                                                                               frontend.Frontend(sys.argv)
                     File "/mnt/gwbuild/builds/gw/14.2.1HP2/14.2.1HP2-125429-48_multi/linux/gwinst_legacy/frontend.py", line 358, in __init__
                                                          textinst.start(nolicense, selectlang, self.cluster, cfgOnly)
                                 File "/mnt/gwbuild/builds/gw/14.2.1HP2/14.2.1HP2-125429-48_multi/linux/gwinst_legacy/textinst.py", line 107, in start
                                                                   webappconfig(textapi)
   File "/mnt/gwbuild/builds/gw/14.2.1HP2/14.2.1HP2-125429-48_multi/linux/gwinst_legacy/textinst.py", line 205, in webappconfig
                                            (apache, tomcat) = GetDefaultWebserverPaths()
    File "/mnt/gwbuild/builds/gw/14.2.1HP2/14.2.1HP2-125429-48_multi/linux/gwinst_legacy/utils.py", line 1851, in GetDefaultWebserverPaths
                                                       tomcat = os.path.join(tomcatbase, 'webapps')
              File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 77, in join
                                                                            elif path == '' or path.endswith('/'):
                           AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'endswith'

Resolution

The fix for this issue is in the GroupWise 2014 R2 SP1 HP2 build located here for Linux and Windows