Crash: LoadError: cannot load such file -- bundler_ext

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So, I had a working installation of Foreman (used only for reporting from my puppet server, which is on a different host) running until yesterday.

My boss wanted to have additional columns in the hosts-view and after much looking I found foreman_column_view, which I thought I’d try.

That led to my Foreman now crashing at every touch, with the error in the subject…

I spent most of yesterday trying to find out why it doesn’t find the installed bundler_ext (0.4.1), and this morning I decided to start from scratch.
I removed foreman completely and re-installed it.
And now I get the error already when running foreman-installer…

Please help me get this thing running again!!

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I missed to type my environment:
RHEL 7
Foreman 1.24.1

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The full error:

rake aborted!
LoadError: cannot load such file -- bundler_ext
/usr/share/foreman/config/application.rb:16:in `require'
/usr/share/foreman/config/application.rb:16:in `<top (required)>'
/usr/share/foreman/Rakefile:1:in `require'
/usr/share/foreman/Rakefile:1:in `<top (required)>'
/opt/rh/rh-ruby25/root/usr/share/gems/gems/rake-13.0.1/exe/rake:27:in `<top (required)>'
(See full trace by running task with --trace)
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Always do a VM snapshot before trying out plugins or doing any kind of dangerous things. This looks like some packaging issue, @packaging ?

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  • How did you install foreman_column_view?
  • How did you remove Foreman? Is it a fresh machine?
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I don’t have foreman_column_view installed yet.
I removed Foreman using
yum -y erase *foreman*

What difference does it make how I removed it?
Why doesn’t foreman-rake find the installed bundler_ext?
I now have it in 3 different places in my filesystem, but still it’s not found:
/opt/rh/rh-ruby25/root/usr/local/share/gems/gems/bundler_ext-0.4.1/lib/bundler_ext.rb /opt/theforeman/tfm/root/usr/share/gems/gems/bundler_ext-0.4.1/lib/bundler_ext.rb /usr/share/gems/gems/bundler_ext-0.4.1/lib/bundler_ext.rb

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I could freshly install the machine - if absolutely necessary…

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But you tried installing it, and I wonder how you did it, to understand where the issue might be coming from.

If something damaged your Ruby/SCL install, and you just purged Foreman itself, your Ruby is still broken and reinstalling Foreman won’t help.

/opt/rh/rh-ruby25/root/usr/local/share/gems/gems/bundler_ext-0.4.1 should not exist, the local in the path implies it was created by a gem install or similar.

Can you post the output of scl enable rh-ruby25 -- gem list --all bundler_ext and scl enable tfm -- gem list --all bundler_ext. On a vanilla foreman install, the first command should not return any gems, but I’d expect yours does.

Can you also post ls /opt/rh/rh-ruby25/root/usr/local/share/gems/gems/?

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scl enable rh-ruby25 -- gem list --all bundler_ext

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

bundler_ext (0.4.1)
[root@host foreman]# scl enable tfm -- gem list --all bundler_ext

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

bundler_ext (0.4.1)
[root@host foreman]# ls /opt/rh/rh-ruby25/root/usr/local/share/gems/gems/
bundler-2.1.4  bundler_ext-0.4.1  mini_portile2-2.4.0
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I tried it by gem install foreman_column_view which in turn installed mini_portile2

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This was installed by me today, to test if I could get foreman-rake to use it.

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Any more tips @evgeni?

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I would always avoid using gem install foreman_column_view. If that’s what you did in the first place, you’re probably mixing different Ruby versions. Did you install the RPM on the first try?

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Not really. You could try scl enable rh-ruby25 -- gem uninstall bundler_ext but I doubt it’ll help :frowning:

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So, why did you want me to supply you with all that information then? Just to be able to tell me I’d done something wrong? As if I hadn’t figured that out myself, since it stopped working after I had tried to install the plugin.

So, clean install then, and do not try to install the column_view plugin?

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Only in the later reply you mentioned you used gem install.

There is an RPM for this. It was probably assumed you used this.

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I didn’t know about the rpm, I’ll try that next time - and hope (and maybe pray) for a better result.

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Well, I was hoping for either gem itself to complain, or to see anything further unexpected in the output.

So yeah, fresh install / restore from a good backup is the way to go here I’m afraid.

We probably should mark that plugin as unmaintained.

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So, what’s the recommended solution to getting additional columns to show in the hosts view then?

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I’ll try, but the manually installed version of the gem was installed after this problem showed itself for the first time, as a try for remediation of the (as indicated) missing gem…