Re: [Spacewalk-list] spacewalk package error

2010-09-14 Thread rob morrien
> Are you trying to do this on the spacewalk server or clients? i do this on my spacewalk server > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:49 PM, rob morrien wrote: >> hello to all , >> >> >> updated spacewalk-backend packages available on our centos 5.5 os >> machines. >> >> when we want to add the packa

Re: [Spacewalk-list] spacewalk package error

2010-09-14 Thread rob morrien
what i did is i updated my base and update repo info to centos using the base site instead of mirrors ( see below) yum-updatesd restart yum clean all yum update ather this i got the new spacewalk 51 packages it looks to me that some centos mirrors are correupted rob my current centos repo se

Re: [Spacewalk-list] spacewalk package error

2010-09-14 Thread rob morrien
hello to all, I updated the Centos-Base. repo , i have disabeled my mirrors for base and update , afther this i was able to upgrade my spacewalk stuff. see below base and update info i did the next steps service yum-updatesd restart yum clean all yum update result was that i got now the spac

Re: [Spacewalk-list] spacewalk package error

2010-09-14 Thread Colin Coe
Are you trying to do this on the spacewalk server or clients? On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:49 PM, rob morrien wrote: > hello to all , > > > updated spacewalk-backend packages available on our centos 5.5 os machines. > > when we want to add the package > > we get on a lot off spacewalk systems the ne

Re: [Spacewalk-list] spacewalk package error

2010-09-14 Thread Jan Hutar
You have already updated the package or you are getting these errors when you are trying to update it? Please use yum to update the packages from yum repository linked from here: http://spacewalk.redhat.com/download.html Regards, Jan - Original Message - From: "rob morrien" To: space

[Spacewalk-list] spacewalk package error

2010-09-14 Thread rob morrien
hello to all , updated spacewalk-backend packages available on our centos 5.5 os machines. when we want to add the package we get on a lot off spacewalk systems the next error Missing Dependency: spacewalk-backend-libs = 1.1.50-1.el5 is needed by package spacewalk-backend-1.1.50-1.el5.noarch

Re: [Spacewalk-list] problems rep0 sync satellite server repo 1.1

2010-09-14 Thread rob morrien
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 03:49:25PM +0200, rob morrien wrote: >> >> we did a yum clean all >> >> we removede the cache , but it looks that the repo info on the redhat >> site >> is not correct. > > When you do > > $ wget > http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.1/RHEL/5/i386/repodata/primary.xml.

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Howto connect a virtual guest to a host

2010-09-14 Thread Colin Coe
Balazs, yep, this has bitten me before. I'm thinking a small change to the post script in the 'rhn-virtualization-host' rpm is in order CC On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:46 AM, Balazs Zachar wrote: > Hi, > > This was the problem as I didn't know about it... :) > > Thanks for the help, > Regards,

Re: [Spacewalk-list] systems not registered by default?

2010-09-14 Thread Colin Coe
Mike Yes, clients can access RPMs before activation/registration but not trivially. Here's a snippet from the post script from a kickstart: --- mkdir -p /tmp/rhn_rpms/optional cd /tmp/rhn_rpms/optional wget -P /tmp/rhn_rpms/optional http://127.0.0.1/download/package/914a8ce4e6f7676172d0a4a7f676c2

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Registered CentOS client still pulling updates from mirrors?

2010-09-14 Thread Norman P. B. Joseph
Mike, All those options check out. But I think I see what was going on now, and it wasn't Spacewalk. My tcpdump was filtering only on port 80, but I failed to realize that my client was talking to my server on port 443! So while I was watching it check all the off-site mirrors on port 80 I was f

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Registered CentOS client still pulling updates from mirrors?

2010-09-14 Thread Mike Hanby
A few thoughts, 1. make sure that "plugins=1" is set in /etc/yum.conf so that yum will use the rhn plugin 2. make sure under [main] in /etc/yum/plugins.d/rhnplugin.conf is set to "enabled = 1" 3. do a "yum clean all" Now try it and see if anything changes. Mike -Original Message- From

[Spacewalk-list] Registered CentOS client still pulling updates from mirrors?

2010-09-14 Thread Norman P. B. Joseph
Hello list. I'm experimenting with Spacewalk to see how it may be useful in managing our Linux environment, and have run into my first puzzler. Newly-installed/configured Spacewalk 1.1 server running under CentOS 5.5, following instructions on the Spacewalk Wiki[1] and the CentOS Spacewalk HowTo[

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Howto connect a virtual guest to a host

2010-09-14 Thread Balazs Zachar
Hi, This was the problem as I didn't know about it... :) Thanks for the help, Regards, Balazs On 09/13/2010 11:46 PM, Colin Coe wrote: After installing the virt package, did you run 'rhn-profile-sync'? CC On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Balazs Zachar wrote: On 09/13/2010 10:20 AM, Mic

Re: [Spacewalk-list] systems not registered by default?

2010-09-14 Thread Mike Hanby
Can a client actually access the RPMs before being activated? I would have thought the tools would need to come from another non-spacewalk repo, installed and then activated. -Original Message- From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Snapshot rollback broken?

2010-09-14 Thread Mike McArthur
Hello; Just a quick question here to the spacewalk list, has anyone encountered this oracle error when doing a rollback: RHN::Exception: DBD::Oracle::db prepare_cached failed: ORA-00904: "CR"."DELIM_END": invalid identifier (DBD ERROR: error possibly near <*> indicator at char 236 in ' SEL

Re: [Spacewalk-list] alternate db install...

2010-09-14 Thread Corey Kovacs
Thanks, > If we are speaking about database charset (which should be UTF8 or AL32UTF8) > then no - it's a global setting for the whole database. On client side > nls_lang can be set on per session basis. This bit answers the question. I've hacked the script that creats the correct tnsnames.ora fi

Re: [Spacewalk-list] systems not registered by default?

2010-09-14 Thread Jason Welsh
anyone? i also noticed in my logs, that the "tools rpms" arent getting found for some reason.. im sure this is the main cause of the system not registering. but whats the right way to set this up? --2010-09-13 16:02:56-- http://redhouse.mydomain.com/download/package/311a7f76de89f7771ca620b1

Re: [Spacewalk-list] problems rep0 sync satellite server repo 1.1

2010-09-14 Thread Jan Pazdziora
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 03:49:25PM +0200, rob morrien wrote: > > we did a yum clean all > > we removede the cache , but it looks that the repo info on the redhat site > is not correct. When you do $ wget http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.1/RHEL/5/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz $

Re: [Spacewalk-list] alternate db install...

2010-09-14 Thread Michael Mraka
Corey Kovacs wrote: % I've seen lots of information on migrating to a database other than % oracle-xe and such and they work just fine. I've tested them myself % and I was happy with the results however, what I'd really like to be % able to do is do an install directly to an existing oracle db. %