From 7a347af3b9c94165dcc40ec529d867b3baf3f8a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: linggao <linggao@8638fb3e-16cb-4fca-ae20-7b5d299a9bcd>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:31:41 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fixed in Postage.pm that caused failure in updatenode

git-svn-id: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/xcat/code/xcat-core/trunk@3183 8638fb3e-16cb-4fca-ae20-7b5d299a9bcd
---
 xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/Postage.pm | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/Postage.pm b/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/Postage.pm
index 2e0631286..e321f9326 100644
--- a/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/Postage.pm
+++ b/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/Postage.pm
@@ -214,12 +214,14 @@ sub makescript {
 			push @{$rsp->{data}}, "Unable to open passwd table.";
 			xCAT::MsgUtils->message("E", $rsp, $callback);
 		}
-
-		my $et = $passwdtab->getAttribs({key => 'system', username => 'root'}, 'password');
-		if ($et and defined ($et->{'password'})) {
+                
+                if ($passwdtab) {
+		  my $et = $passwdtab->getAttribs({key => 'system', username => 'root'}, 'password');
+		  if ($et and defined ($et->{'password'})) {
 			push @scriptd, "ROOTPW=".$et->{'password'}."\n";
 			push @scriptd, "export ROOTPW\n";
-		}
+		  }
+               }
 	}
 
   if (!$nodesetstate) { $nodesetstate=getnodesetstate($node);}