Re: [Spacewalk-list] spacewalk 1.4-RC cElementTree problem with spacewalk-repo-sync

2011-04-13 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Martin. for I am new on this list let me introduce myself: My name is Martin Zehetmayer, I work for as consultant for a small linux solution provider in germany, mostly dealing with RHEL systems. I am currently testing spacewalk 1.4-RC6 on a RHEL6.0 x86_64 system. Installing works very f

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 1.4-RC post-upgrade report

2011-04-12 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all, beginning with the testing of 1.4-RC I have noticed that spacewalk-repo-sync does not seem to work, anymore: spacewalk-repo-sync -c fedora-13-x86-tools-os -u http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.4-RC-client/Fedora/13/i386/ Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sy

Re: [Spacewalk-list] rhncfg-client on F15

2011-04-12 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all, rhncfg-client does not work on F15: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/rhncfg-client", line 34, in sys.exit(Main().main() or 0) File "/usr/share/rhn/config_common/rhn_main.py", line 145, in main local_config.init(self.config_section, defaults=up2date_cfg) File "/usr/shar

[Spacewalk-list] rhncfg-client on F15

2011-04-12 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all, rhncfg-client does not work on F15: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/rhncfg-client", line 34, in sys.exit(Main().main() or 0) File "/usr/share/rhn/config_common/rhn_main.py", line 145, in main local_config.init(self.config_section, defaults=up2date_cfg) Fi

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 1.4-RC upgrade report

2011-04-12 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Jan, I only had to make sure that: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client64/lib:/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client/lib is set in tomcat5.conf. Do you say that spacewalk-setup did not update it for you? No, but the .rpmnew file does not contained the line (as expected) So spacewalk-set

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 1.4-RC upgrade report

2011-04-12 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi Jan, I have upgraded our test environment to 1.4-RC. In general, the upgrade worked fine, including schema-upgrade. Thank you. For the record, what operating system was this? I only had to make sure that: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client64/lib:/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client/lib

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 1.4-RC post-upgrade report

2011-04-12 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all, beginning with the testing of 1.4-RC I have noticed that spacewalk-repo-sync does not seem to work, anymore: spacewalk-repo-sync -c fedora-13-x86-tools-os -u http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.4-RC-client/Fedora/13/i386/ Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/spacewalk-re

[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 1.4-RC upgrade report

2011-04-12 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all. I have upgraded our test environment to 1.4-RC. In general, the upgrade worked fine, including schema-upgrade. I only had to make sure that: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client64/lib:/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client/lib is set in tomcat5.conf. Greets Marcus __

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk, mrepo and RHN integration

2011-03-15 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all. Is there another way I'm missing? Buy RHN Satellite. Then you can sync directly using satellite-sync. But you probably know that :) Maybe the SUSE guys are working on that, as their intend is to allow management of RH machines with SUSEmanager (at least during migration phase). Fr

[Spacewalk-list] Recently updated kickstart distribution is always default

2011-03-01 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all. The kickstart distribution is always set to the one which has been updated most recently. e.g. if you have a distro for f14 and f15 and have edited the f15 distribution most recently, an installation of f14 will load the f15 images, too. Greets Marcus ___

[Spacewalk-list] error during package import

2011-03-01 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all. Since we have updated our server to 1.3 we sometimes hit the following error message during spacewalk-repo-sync: python: ./rpmio_internal.h:502: c2f: Assertion `fd && fd->magic == 0x04463138' failed. ORA-24550: signal received: [si_signo=6] [si_errno=0] [si_code=-6] [si_int=0] [si_pt

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 1.3 OSAD errors

2011-02-08 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Milan Zazrivec, There are other things adding to correct jabberd setup (certificates, permissions, ownership, selinux ...). Jabberd is running, all clients but spacewalk are offline. Does osa-dispatcher start correctly? (no error printed to the console or log file). Just restarted an

Re: [Spacewalk-list] traceback while trying to edit kickstart profile

2011-02-07 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Jan, After upgrade to 1.3 I got the following traceback while trying to Is this a regression against 1.2? In other words, did this operation work for you on Spacewalk 1.2? Actually, I've identified the problem and fixed it with commit 25a58f15e8e692a8653df53ba633acecf8804437 T

[Spacewalk-list] traceback while trying to edit kickstart profile

2011-02-07 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all. After upgrade to 1.3 I got the following traceback while trying to edit or create a kickstart profile: Exception: javax.servlet.ServletException: could not execute query at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processException(RequestProcessor.java:535) at org.apache.struts.

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Scheduled Actions Not Being Picked Up

2011-01-10 Thread Marcus Moeller
remote commands not. Kind Regards Marcus Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:30:26 +0100 From: Marcus Moeller To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Scheduled Actions Not Being Picked Up Message-ID:<4d2b2612.4090...@gmx.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Scheduled Actions Not Being Picked Up

2011-01-10 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Trevor, I am using Spacewalk 1.2 under CentOS 5.5 with Oracle as its backend. A few days ago, the oracle database experienced an archive log problem due to running out of space. I corrected this problem and was able to restart my instance of Spacewalk; however, ever since that point,

Re: [Spacewalk-list] deleting packages

2010-11-22 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Jan. >> > On you Spacewalk, go to >> > >> >        https://FQDN/rhn/apidoc/handlers/PackagesHandler.jsp#removePackage >> > >> > Hope this helps, >> >> You still have to hack orphan package IDs out of the database directly >> which is quite annoying. > > Obviously, patches welcome. Please not

Re: [Spacewalk-list] deleting packages

2010-11-22 Thread Marcus Moeller
2010/11/16 Jan Pazdziora : > On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 04:24:26PM -0500, Ronald Parker wrote: >> >> >> Deleting packages in 25 steps might take a long time if you have about >> >> 60'000 :/ >> >> > I hacked up a script which pulled the orphan package IDs out of the >> > database >> > directly then

Re: [Spacewalk-list] deleting packages

2010-11-03 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear David, >> we got now about 60.000 packages in no channel (due to deletion of old >> Fedora releases). It is not possible to delete them, neither via gui >> nor via api (which stucks during >> channel.software.listPackagesWithoutChannel either with a 502 Proxy >> Error, a connection timeout or

[Spacewalk-list] deleting packages

2010-11-03 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all, we got now about 60.000 packages in no channel (due to deletion of old Fedora releases). It is not possible to delete them, neither via gui nor via api (which stucks during channel.software.listPackagesWithoutChannel either with a 502 Proxy Error, a connection timeout or a 500 Internal Ser

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Can spacewalk manage himself?

2010-11-01 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi Cliff. >> Yes. You can do it and it is quite common scenario. >> > I wrote many moons ago a kbase article for Red Hat on this setup - if you > have a paid Satellite or RHEL subscription you should be able to login to > the knowledgebase and look it up for more details. It can be done. For > mon

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Kickstart via proxy failing

2010-10-04 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Justin. > http://www.mail-archive.com/spacewalk-list@redhat.com/msg04875.html > >> Just hit the same issue myself - thanks for the response before... >> worked here too... > > These packages should fix the issue: >  http://koji.spacewalkproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=18895 > > The relevan

Re: [Spacewalk-list] adding repos to spacewalk kickstart

2010-08-30 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Jason, >  Ive searched but dont see how to do this.. > > I have my kickstart working and now Id like to be able to add a few > repos for the kickstart to be able to install from. > so in the kickstart config, Id like to see something like > > repo --name=server-stuff --baseurl=http://myserver

Re: [Spacewalk-list] question about Centos installation spacewalk

2010-08-28 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Rob. > who can i ask to update the How Tos/PackageManagement/Spacewalk - CentOS wiki > > At this moment the documentation is still for 1.0 and we are now using 1.1 You can subscribe the -docs ML and ask for contribution rights. -- Greets Marcus

[Spacewalk-list] Install updates during provisioning

2010-08-16 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all. As it's possible to access all child channels during kickstart process, it would also be great if packages are fetched from included update channels, too. Then it would not be necessary to yum update afterwards. -- Greets Marcus ___ Spacewalk-

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Proxy configuration - 1.0

2010-06-25 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Tom, >> confirmed - 0.8 is OK 1.0 fails. No traceback no nothing just cant >> download rpm's >> >> Not really sure where to start looking for this one as there are >> seemingly no errors > > so the issue is in /usr/share/rhn/proxy/rhnShared.py Thanks for the update. Taking the thread back t

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Proxy configuration - 1.0

2010-06-24 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi Tom, > Initial tests replacing the 1.0 proxy with a 0.8 one and it all works again!! > Will test some more but looks like a proxy issue We had massive problems with the 0.9 proxy and decided to completely drop and replace it with a standalone squid (e.g.: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Proxy configuration - 1.0

2010-06-24 Thread Marcus Moeller
2010/6/24 Tom Brown : >> Which distro are you trying to kickstart? > > RHEL-5.5 And you set proxy as anaconda appendline, like: proxy=proxy.domain.example:3128 ? -- Greets Marcus ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.re

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Proxy configuration - 1.0

2010-06-24 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Tom. > I use the cli to add my distro's and manage my profiles and repos. > When installing clients from the server all works fine, ie > > > The issue is though as soon as i add a proxy into the installation the > client installation fails when trying to download packages. The > kickstart i

Re: [Spacewalk-list] What package does spacewalk use to send mails?

2010-06-23 Thread Marcus Moeller
2010/6/24 Yungwei Chen : > as title. Thanks. sendmail :) Greets Marcus ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk and Puppet integration

2010-06-16 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all. >>> I have been experimenting a bit with a setup that integrates Spacewalk >>> 0.8 and Puppet 0.25.x. >> >> I'm sure you know you can directly manage configuration files using >> Spacewalk. Yes Puppet can do a lot of things Spacewalk could not. >> I just want to ask what *you* are missing.

[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk @ FUDCon

2010-06-10 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all. As most of you already might know, FUDCon EMEA is going to happen in Zurich this year. It would be to have some Spacewalk 'team/userbase/community' meetup, so we could do something like a hackfest and have some talks about Spacewalk. It's not set yet, but (if we got enough budget left) we

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Hostname rename

2010-06-08 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi again. >>> > HTTPS-MX monitoring scout e-mail is sent by sendmail. >>> > I am wondering, because I've never received monitoring scout startup >>> e-mail from HTTPS-MX@. :-) >>> > >>> > Could you be more concrete? And attach your scout startup e-mail and >>> /var/log/rhn/rhn_hostname_rename.log?

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Hostname rename

2010-06-07 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi Tomas. >> > HTTPS-MX monitoring scout e-mail is sent by sendmail. >> > I am wondering, because I've never received monitoring scout startup >> e-mail from HTTPS-MX@. :-) >> > >> > Could you be more concrete? And attach your scout startup e-mail and >> /var/log/rhn/rhn_hostname_rename.log? >> >>

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Hostname rename

2010-06-07 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Tomas. > HTTPS-MX monitoring scout e-mail is sent by sendmail. > I am wondering, because I've never received monitoring scout startup e-mail > from HTTPS-MX@. :-) > > Could you be more concrete? And attach your scout startup e-mail and > /var/log/rhn/rhn_hostname_rename.log? Here is the co

[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Hostname rename

2010-06-04 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all. I have renamed a Spacewalk server, but during startup, the 'Monitoring scout has been started' mail is still sent from https...@$oldhostname. Could one please point out where that value is set from? Best Regards Marcus ___ Spacewalk-list maili

Re: [Spacewalk-list] passing proxy=http://url anaconda boot option does not load kickstart file from Spacewalk

2010-05-26 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi again, >> While trying to install F13 RC3 through a http proxy, kickstart file >> is not retrieved from Spacewalk. > > Define "not retrieved". > Does you see hit in http proxy log? > Does you see hit in spacewalk httpd log? > It is blocked on the way? Or proxy or spacewalk return 4xx or 5xx cod

[Spacewalk-list] passing proxy=http://url anaconda boot option does not load kickstart file from Spacewalk

2010-05-26 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi again, >>> While trying to install F13 RC3 through a http proxy, kickstart file >>> is not retrieved from Spacewalk. >> >> Define "not retrieved". >> Does you see hit in http proxy log? >> Does you see hit in spacewalk httpd log? >> It is blocked on the way? Or proxy or spacewalk return 4xx or

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Debian support in Spacewalk

2010-05-24 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Lukáš, >  I have finished my thesis: Native Support for DEB Packages in Spacewalk > Text of the thesis is available on > http://www.stud.fit.vutbr.cz/~xdurfi00/diplomka/xdurfi00.pdf Thanks for publishing your thesis. It contains a lot of useful background information, even if one is not plan

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Package profile sync on kickstart

2010-05-20 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi. > I've managed to set my test system to boot by PXE and register on spacewalk > server, everything went as expected except for the package sync. > On the event history I get the following event: > > Schedule a package sync for kickstarts scheduled by (none) > Details: > This action's status is

[Spacewalk-list] passing proxy=http://url anaconda boot option does not load kickstart file from Spacewalk

2010-05-18 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all. While trying to install F13 RC3 through a http proxy, kickstart file is not retrieved from Spacewalk. Recently, there has been some additions/fixes applied to Anaconda which may have caused this problem: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=580226 Best Regards Marcus ___

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Monitoring Scout

2010-05-08 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi. >>> On 05/06/2010 08:14 PM, Cory mckee wrote: Is there a way to remove a Spacewalk monitoring scout. When I did the upgrade the second one appeared >>> >>> Yes and no. >>> >>> Not easy and using normal tools. >>> >>> Yes. Using sqlplus and direct access to DB. >>> >>> But first of al

[Spacewalk-list] changes to rhn_hibernate.conf

2010-04-20 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all, I need to apply some changes to the hibernate.conf on my system and wonder if I should edit /etc/rhn/default/rhn_hibernate.conf directly or copy it to /etc/rhn/ instead. Another question is, if I would do so, do I only have to add the changes/diff to the newly created /etc/rhn/rhn_hiberna

Re: [Spacewalk-list] .treeinfo

2010-04-14 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi, > Is .treeinfo necessary in kickstartable trees? Answering all my own questions today :) Maybe its useful for someone else: No, .treeinfo is not necessary. Best Regards Marcus ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.

Re: [Spacewalk-list] repos not added since last errata

2010-04-14 Thread Marcus Moeller
Good Evening. > in the past child channel have been added to the rendered kickstart > file (in form of repo) if they are checked in Kickstart Profile / > Operating Systems Tab to allow installation of packages from child > channels before system registration. Also seems to be related to: https://

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Cannot unselect VT

2010-04-14 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all. >>> I am trying to kickstart Fedora with Spacewalk 0.8 >>> >>> The problem is that I cannot unselect VT in the 'Kickstart Profile / >>> Operating System' details as this leads to the following error >>> message: >>> >>> The specified base channel and kickstart tree was not found. Only occ

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Cannot unselect VT

2010-04-14 Thread Marcus Moeller
2010/4/14 Marcus Moeller : > 2010/4/14 Marcus Moeller : >> Hi all, >> >> I am trying to kickstart Fedora with Spacewalk 0.8 >> >> The problem is that I cannot unselect VT in the 'Kickstart Profile / >> Operating System' details as this leads to th

[Spacewalk-list] .treeinfo

2010-04-14 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all. Is .treeinfo necessary in kickstartable trees? Best Regards Marcus ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list

[Spacewalk-list] repos not added since last errata

2010-04-14 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all, Dear Justin. in the past child channel have been added to the rendered kickstart file (in form of repo) if they are checked in Kickstart Profile / Operating Systems Tab to allow installation of packages from child channels before system registration. This feature has been removed in one o

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Cannot unselect VT

2010-04-14 Thread Marcus Moeller
2010/4/14 Marcus Moeller : > Hi all, > > I am trying to kickstart Fedora with Spacewalk 0.8 > > The problem is that I cannot unselect VT in the 'Kickstart Profile / > Operating System' details as this leads to the following error > message: > > The specified ba

[Spacewalk-list] Cannot unselect VT

2010-04-14 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all, I am trying to kickstart Fedora with Spacewalk 0.8 The problem is that I cannot unselect VT in the 'Kickstart Profile / Operating System' details as this leads to the following error message: The specified base channel and kickstart tree was not found. Kickstart process then complains a

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Unable to deploy config files after upgrade to 0.8

2010-03-16 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi, > Am I the only one with this problem? I have stopped counting problems in 0.8. Btw. you might want to take a look at: https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/OsadHowTo jabberd logs to /var/log/messages Best Regards Marcus ___ Spacewalk-list ma

[Spacewalk-list] Reprovisioning does not work

2010-03-08 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all, om my Spacewalk 0.8 box, reprovisioning a system fails with the following error message: This action will be executed after 03/ 8/10 1:02:45 PM CET. This action's status is: Failed. The client picked up this action on 03/ 8/10 1:03:10 PM CET. The client completed this action on 03/ 8/10

[Spacewalk-list] python-dmidecode pushed to stable

2010-03-04 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all, python-dmidecode-3.10.7-3.el5 has been pushed to epel-stable, so it's no longer necessary to activate -testing. Best Regards Marcus ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Configuration File Import Problem

2010-03-04 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Josh, Shouldn't it be: +select cc.id, cv.checksum_type, cv.checksum, file_size, contents, is_binary + from rhnConfigContent cc, rhnChecksumView cv + where cv.checksum = :checksum + and cv.checksum_type = :checksum_type and file_size = :file

Re: [Spacewalk-list] [Spacewalk-devel] spacewalk-monitoring-selinux dependency problem

2010-03-04 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all. >> I am setting up a Spacewalk proxy on a SELinux aware system and >> struggled during package install as spacewalk-monitoring-selinux seems >> to requires oracle-instantclient-selinux which then requires >> oracle-instantclient itself. > > Which is correct since  spacewalk-proxy-monitorin

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Configuration File Import Problem

2010-03-04 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi. > I've tried the patch and it works for me. Thanks a lot ! > I've created a bugzilla entry for this a while back: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=54. Shall I update it ? Still got an: XML-RPC call error: while trying rhncfg-manager upload-channel Best Regards Marcus

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Internal Server Error (500) with rhncfg-managerwhen adding new files

2010-03-02 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all. > thank you, this fix has solved the problem. Got a similar problem on Spacewalk 0.8: Exception reported from spacewalk.domain.example Time: Tue Mar 2 15:05:30 2010 Exception type server.rhnSQL.sql_base.SQLStatementPrepareError Exception while handling function config.management.put_f

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Web UI footer still shows 0.7

2010-02-23 Thread Marcus Moeller
2010/2/23 Marcus Moeller : Hi all. The footer of the 0.8 Web UI still shows: Spacewalk Release 0.7 on my box. Sorry, backuped and restored /etc/rhn/default/rhn_web.conf Regards Marcus smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

[Spacewalk-list] Web UI footer still shows 0.7

2010-02-23 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all. The footer of the 0.8 Web UI still shows: Spacewalk Release 0.7 on my box. Best Regards Marcus smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/lis

[Spacewalk-list] PostgreSQL Traceback

2010-02-22 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi, i am getting the following Traceback on my Spacewalk 0.7 Server: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/postgresql/util/PSQLException at com.redhat.rhn.common.db.NamedPreparedStatement.execute(NamedPreparedStatement.java:140) at com.redhat.rhn.common.db.datasource.CachedStat

[Spacewalk-list] German how-to about certificates

2010-02-18 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all. I have created a small German how-to, describing the certificate signing process for Spacewalk and/or proxies: http://www.marcus-moeller.de/spacewalk/spacewalk-ssl-zertifikat.html Happy reading Marcus ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-

Re: [Spacewalk-list] 0.7 upgrade to nightly

2010-02-02 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Michael. > nightly is latest development and experimental stuff and although we do > our best regarding upgrades we frankly don't support them (to nightly), > installation should always work. > > Of course we do support upgrades from one released version to another so > the main upgrade polis

[Spacewalk-list] 0.7 upgrade to nightly

2010-02-02 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all, I have upgrade my 0.7 to nightly and ran into problems during shema upgrade: CREATE TABLE rhnChecksumType * ERROR at line 1: ORA-00955: name is already used by an existing object which leads to the following error during spacewalk-repo-sync: SQLStatementPrepareError: ('ORA-

[Spacewalk-list] reprovisioning without re-activation key

2010-01-27 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all, I wonder what the re-activation key is for and if it's necessary to create one before reprovisioning. We experienced some problems while reprovisioning if no re-activation key has been created (not all packages from child channels have been installed). Best Regards Marcus __

Re: [Spacewalk-list] can spacewalk handle centos and redaht channels at the same time

2009-12-13 Thread Marcus Moeller
2009/12/13 Colin Coe : > That _was_ the case before the md5 (or was it sha1?) work that was > done in or around version 0.3 or 0.4... Ah, okay. Thanks for the clarification. Best Regards Marcus ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com

Re: [Spacewalk-list] can spacewalk handle centos and redaht channels at the same time

2009-12-12 Thread Marcus Moeller
2009/12/12 Jesus M. Rodriguez : > Marcus, > > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Marcus Moeller > wrote: > [snip] > >>>> I want to setup a spacewalk server with redhat and centos channels. > > [snip] > >> I personally won't suggest to do so atm. &g

Re: [Spacewalk-list] can spacewalk handle centos and redaht channels at the same time

2009-12-12 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Jesus. > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Marcus Moeller > wrote: > [snip] > >>>> I want to setup a spacewalk server with redhat and centos channels. > > [snip] > >> I personally won't suggest to do so atm. > > Any reason why? AFAIR

Re: [Spacewalk-list] can spacewalk handle centos and redaht channels at the same time

2009-12-12 Thread Marcus Moeller
2009/12/12 Colin Coe : > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 9:59 PM, rob morrien wrote: >> hello, >> >> >> i see a lot of messages about the centos and redhat channels. >> >> I want to setup a spacewalk server with redhat and centos channels. >> >> Is this mix a problem for spacewalk? I personally won't sug

Re: [Spacewalk-list] CentOS Updates Requiring a Red Hat GPG Key?

2009-12-10 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Greg. > I’ve got a setup wherein I have two RHEL 5 channels (i386 and x86_64) as > well as two CentOS 5 channels (also i386 and x86_64).  After updating the > channels with the latest rpm’s from the respective channels, I am getting an > error on the CentOS servers I am updating looking for w

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk and RHN

2009-12-10 Thread Marcus Moeller
> How can i sync rhn channels directly in spacewalk? I see "Red Hat >        Channels" in channels tab, i suppose that's about rhn channels >        but... >        how? You can't. There are some tools (like mrepo, rhnpush) available for syncing and importing channels from rhn. Best Regards Marcu

Re: [Spacewalk-list] redhat channels

2009-12-10 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi Rob, > How can i get the default red hat channels into spacewalk? Take a look at mrepo in combination with rhnpush. Best Regards Marcus ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list

Re: [Spacewalk-list] sslVerifyError with osa-dispatcher

2009-12-09 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Thomas,        Issuer: C=CH, ST=Bern, L=Bern, O=domain.local, OU=domain.local, CN=spacewalk2.domain.local        Validity            Not Before: Dec  5 00:38:00 2008 GMT            Not After : Dec  5 00:38:02 2036 GMT        Subject: C=CH, ST=Bern, O=domain.local, OU=domain.local, CN=spac

Re: [Spacewalk-list] NOCpulse::SetID

2009-12-07 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi again, >> I suppose the use of function of getpwnam() is resposible for these. > > That's what I thought, too. But calling: > > my $unum = getpwnam("nocpulse"); > print "$unum\n"; > > my $groupnum = getgrnam("nocpulse"); > print "$groupnum\n"; > > from CLI works fine. Enforcing selinux prevent

[Spacewalk-list] NOCpulse::SetID

2009-11-20 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all. We have some problems with NOCpulse::SetID and Kerberos/LDAP Authentication. Our server is configured to allow uid <500 to be authenticated locally, in /etc/pam.d/system-auth: auth requisite pam_succeed_if.so uid >= 500 quiet gogo.pl (which makes use of SetID) is started with nocpulse

Re: [Spacewalk-list] massive transactions on dist import

2009-11-16 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Michael. % % > % > we have noticed that a distribution import (e.g. full F11 64bit) causes a huge oracle transaction log (about 50GB). The database itself has a size of about 7GB atm. ... % > I was talking about the archive log. Hi Marcus, I'm sorry I haven't looked at it yet. % As the

Re: [Spacewalk-list] massive transactions on dist import

2009-11-16 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Michael. >> % >> we have noticed that a distribution import (e.g. full F11 64bit) >> causes a huge oracle transaction log (about 50GB). The database itself has a >> size of about 7GB atm. >> % >> % > I'm sorry I have no idea what transaction log are you talking about. >> % > Could you be more

Re: [Spacewalk-list] spacewalk-proxy and jabberd

2009-11-11 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Lee. > I just installed spacewalk-proxy for the first time using the > instructions on > https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToInstallProxy > > Everything went smoothly and the proxy is working correctly.  The only > issue I've experience is that OSA stopped working for a client as I >

Re: [Spacewalk-list] massive transactions on dist import

2009-11-02 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Michael. % Hi, % % >> we have noticed that a distribution import (e.g. full F11 64bit) causes a huge oracle transaction log (about 50GB). The database itself has a size of about 7GB atm. % % > I'm sorry I have no idea what transaction log are you talking about. % > Could you be more speci

Re: [Spacewalk-list] massive transactions on dist import

2009-11-01 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi, >> we have noticed that a distribution import (e.g. full F11 64bit) causes a >> huge oracle transaction log (about 50GB). The database itself has a size of >> about 7GB atm. > I'm sorry I have no idea what transaction log are you talking about. > Could you be more specific? I was talking a

[Spacewalk-list] Re: SELinux and /tftpboot

2009-10-28 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all, it seems that the images located /tftpboot/images/XXX/ are associated with the wrong SELinux context: 'root:object_r:spacewalk_data_t; which leads to denies like this: type=AVC msg=audit(1254211758.053:756): avc:  denied  { getattr } for pid=31005 comm="in.tftpd" path="/images/centos-5

[Spacewalk-list] PXE SystemID is not deleted after kickstart

2009-10-28 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all, even after an successful Kickstart process, the SystemID file is not deleted from /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/, causing an installation-rerun on every boot of the affected machine. Best Regards Marcus smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature ___

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Training

2009-10-28 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi. Hi Does anybody know anybody or company, preferably UK, who could help train some people on Spacewalk? Thanks. Since Spacewalk is the upstream for RHN Satellite, why not start with the RHN Satellite course        http://www.europe.redhat.com/training/course/RH401 If you are interested

[Spacewalk-list] massive transactions on dist import

2009-10-28 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi, we have noticed that a distribution import (e.g. full F11 64bit) causes a huge oracle transaction log (about 50GB). The database itself has a size of about 7GB atm. Best Regards Marcus smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature ___

[Spacewalk-list] InvalidPackageError during satellite-sync

2009-09-29 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi, while trying to import packages to a channel from a yum repository, I get errors like this: Exception Handler Information Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/reposync.py", line 157, in import_packages self.associate_package(pack, md5) File "/usr/sha

[Spacewalk-list] SELinux and /tftpboot

2009-09-29 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all, it seems that the images located /tftpboot/images/XXX/ are associated with the wrong SELinux context: 'root:object_r:spacewalk_data_t; which leads to denies like this: type=AVC msg=audit(1254211758.053:756): avc: denied { getattr } for pid=31005 comm="in.tftpd" path="/images/centos-5-x8

[Spacewalk-list] Re: Monitoring does not start

2009-09-08 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all, > I have switched from embedded to standalone oracle. Everything seems > to work fine but Monitoring. During startup I get the following error > messages: > > > 2009-09-08 10:36:19 InstallSoftwareConfig:      !! Reference to > nonexistent macro 'NPVAR' ... Strange. After running: /usr/sh

[Spacewalk-list] Monitoring does not start

2009-09-08 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all, I have switched from embedded to standalone oracle. Everything seems to work fine but Monitoring. During startup I get the following error messages: 2009-09-08 10:36:19 InstallSoftwareConfig: !! Reference to nonexistent macro 'NPVAR' Starting InstallSoftwareConfig ... [ FAI

[Spacewalk-list] rhncfg packages won't get installed

2009-08-25 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all, I have activated provisioning entitlements within an activation key and noticed that the following packages have been added to the 'Packages' Tab: rhncfg-actions rhncfg-client rhncfg Those packages are available in child channels and accessible during kickstart but won't get installed un

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk & RHEL question

2009-08-19 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi, > All that said I am currently doing exactly what you are describing. I have > it in a two stage setup. I have a box for each architecture downloading all > rpms in subscribed channels and dumping it to a central repo. An rhnpush > script is kicked off that then iterates through the reop and p

Re: [Spacewalk-list] rhnreg_ks error during kickstart after update to 0.6 - smbios dbus_bindings.DBusException

2009-08-19 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Marco, > after the update to Spacewalk 0.6, I' ve a serious problem with rhnreg_ks > during kickstart. Before the update, during kickstart of Centos 5.3 > [i386-x86_64], I registered the workstations with bootstrap.sh script. The > command inside the script is: > > /usr/sbin/rhnreg_ks --force

[Spacewalk-list] Errata

2009-08-11 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all. Is there a way to schedule updates without Erratas? Are there perhaps Erratas available for CentOS and Fedora already which can be pushed to a local Spacewalk? Best Regards Marcus ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk .5 & CentOS -- Can't get past web login screen

2009-08-07 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Greg, > I've been struggling with this for the past 4 days. I have a clean > CentOS 5.3 x86 base install with everything updated doing a "yum > update". I've been following the instructions at > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PackageManagement/Spacewalk on how to I have been using the 'off

[Spacewalk-list] rhnpush: Internal Server Error

2009-08-04 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all. While trying to rhnpush content to a channel on my 0.6(nightly) box I get an Internal Server Error. rhn_server_app.log: 2009/08/05 08:49:17 +02:00 15705 127.0.0.1: rhnSQL/driver_cx_Oracle._execute_wrapper('Executing SQL: "select * from web_user_site_info where web_user_id = :userid and t

Re: [Spacewalk-list] RE: OSAD / Jabber..

2009-07-30 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi again, > Are there any downsides to not using OSAD/osa-dispatcher? > > This may sound ignorant on my part so I'll apologize ahead of time for that. > > I personally don't care about the pushing down of updates immediately. > > I've set rhnsd's interval to be 1 which means it checks in every min

[Spacewalk-list] Re: /usr/bin/sm: symbol lookup error

2009-07-30 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi Again. > > on the latest nightly build I got an error while trying to start jabber/sm: > >  /usr/bin/sm: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/jabberd/storage_db.so: > undefined symbol: ser_string_set The bug seems to be related to jabberd-2.2.5-1 and is fixed in upstream. Could you perhaps update jabb

[Spacewalk-list] /usr/bin/sm: symbol lookup error

2009-07-30 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all, on the latest nightly build I got an error while trying to start jabber/sm: /usr/bin/sm: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/jabberd/storage_db.so: undefined symbol: ser_string_set osa-dispatcher.log continuously reports: osad/jabber_lib.setup_connection('Could not connect to any jabber serv

Re: [Spacewalk-list] spacewalk and mrepo

2009-07-22 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Greg. > I *just* got it all put together within the past week, so I haven’t > automated anything yet.  The working theory is that I can schedule mrepo > pulls of all the repositories I need, then just have another cron job to > push everything up there nightly.  Mrepo even sends e-mails of an

Re: [Spacewalk-list] spacewalk and mrepo

2009-07-21 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Eric, > I was wondering if anyone had Spacewalk and mrepo working together to > manage/update RHEL Systems? > Unfortunately, RHN Satellite is not within our budget. > > I am thinking of implementing this combination since we have many RHEL > systems which do not have "Internet" access. > > Do