aliyuncli-ra configure fails with "NameError: name 'reload' is not defined"

Environment

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 with the High Availability Add-on
• Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun)
• resource-agents-aliyun

Issue

• aliyuncli-ra configure fails with "NameError: name 'reload' is not defined".

# aliyuncli-ra configure
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/aliyuncli-ra", line 12, in <module>
    load_entry_point('aliyuncli==2.1.10', 'console_scripts', 'aliyuncli')()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 476, in load_entry_point
    return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2700, in load_entry_point
    return ep.load()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2318, in load
    return self.resolve()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2324, in resolve
    module = __import__(self.module_name, fromlist=['__name__'], level=0)
  File "/usr/lib/resource-agents/bundled/aliyun/aliyuncli/aliyuncli.py", line 22, in <module>
    reload(sys)
NameError: name 'reload' is not defined

Resolution

Upgrade to resource-agents-4.1.1-33.el8 or later.

Root Cause

The bundled libraries in the resource-agents-aliyun package are written for Python2. Module names and module search paths have changed in Python3. RHEL 8 only ships Python3, so the aliyuncli-ra tool fails due to missing modules and functions.

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