Re: [Spacewalk-list] rhn_check uses HTTP repos instead of spacewalk software channel

2011-07-11 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Jan Pazdziora wrote: On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 10:28:48AM +0200, Sascha Frey wrote: For some reason rhn_check (and yum) try to contact the servers in the /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo files before trying to retrieve the packages from the spacewalk server. But this is expected an

Re: [Spacewalk-list] rhn_check uses HTTP repos instead of spacewalk software channel

2011-07-11 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Jan Pazdziora wrote: On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:23:15AM +0100, John Hodrien wrote: It's expected and working as designed, but it *is* an issue that's been raised before so I guess he's questioning the design. People are botching it with pre/post script

[Spacewalk-list] selinux on CentOS 6.0

2011-07-19 Thread John Hodrien
I've just installed 1.4 on CentOS 6.0 with SELinux in targetted mode. I've never use spacewalk with SELinux enabled, and am very much a newbie to SELinux. To create a new distribution I copied the contents of DVD1 to /var/satellite/distros/centos-6.0, and tried to create a new distribution in th

[Spacewalk-list] Postgresql slowness

2011-07-20 Thread John Hodrien
So making some paltry effort to track down the slowness, I thought I'd log the slow queries in postgres (I'm making this up as I go along, I'm no seasoned DBA). Every package push, I'll get: LOG: duration: 2379.433 ms statement: SELECT rhn_channel.refresh_newest_package(102, E'server.app.yumr

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Postgresql slowness

2011-07-21 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, silvio.sch...@elektrobit.com wrote: I noticed the same behavior after my postgres migration. My sync of the fedora channel slowed down. I started a repo-sync yesterday at 14:41 and I got only 300 packages until now (8:00). Kill the spacewalk-repo-sync process, waiting a

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Postgresql slowness

2011-07-21 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Jonathan Hoser wrote: My config lines: shared_buffers = 12GB temp_buffers = 64MB work_mem = 32MB maintainance_work_mem = 32GB fsync = off synchronous_commit = off checkpoint_segments = 30 I have not set 'wal_buffers' and 'effective_cache_size' so I guess these are at defa

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Postgresql slowness

2011-07-21 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Jan Pazdziora wrote: After each package "push" is done, the code tries to make sure the rhnChannelNewestPackage "cache" is in sync, so it recalculates the whole channel. We could do it after the whole channel is synced -- but what if the sync fails before it gets chance to

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Centos 6.0 spacewalk 1.5 -- selinux-policy-3.7.19-93 dependencies

2011-07-21 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Coy Hile wrote: On 21/07/2011 19:04, Jan Pazdziora wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 06:23:36PM +0100, A Robinson wrote: As a heads up -- I couldn't install spacewalk 1.5 on centos 6.0 as it called for selinux-policy-3.7.19-93 and Centos contains 3.7.19-54.el6 Right. We kin

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Architecture question

2011-08-09 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Martin Eggen wrote: Hi, the Updates channel receive all updates packages. I used this layout mostly because it was suggested for the CentOS channels, and it also matches my yum repositories as created by mrepo. For some systems I want to be able to subscribe them just to a s

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Architecture question

2011-08-09 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 9 Aug 2011, Jeremy Davis wrote: -centos-{development,test,production}-base-{v4,v5,v6}-{32bit,64bit} -centos-{development,test,production}-addons-{v4,v5,v6}-{32bit,64bit} -centos-{development,test,production}-centosplus-{v4,v5,v6}-{32bit,64bit} -centos-{development,test,pro

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Kickstart falling in spacewalk 1.5

2011-09-02 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 2 Sep 2011, Jonathan DeHaan wrote: You need to make sure that the packages in your base channel are exactly the same as referenced by the repodata in your distro tree - and spacewalk does not do this for you automatically. Is the easiest way not to simply have an empty base channel, an

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Kickstart falling in spacewalk 1.5

2011-09-02 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 2 Sep 2011, Jonathan DeHaan wrote: Yes, you have to duplicate packages on disk to recreate the repodata. After the repodata has been recreated, you can delete the extra copy of the packages that you used to create the repodata. symlinks or hardlinks work just as well, and then you don'

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Question on dependancies management when upgrading packages

2011-09-07 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, Pierre Casenove wrote: I have a question about the dependancy management when we upgrade client packages from spacewalk: are the dependancies automatically installed or not? Yes. Your install request just maps to a yum command as far as I'm aware. Same question when inst

Re: [Spacewalk-list] manual kickstart file?

2011-09-08 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 8 Sep 2011, Razvan Cosma wrote: to clarify: I know that I can simply specify preseed/url=http://server.kickstart/somefile as kernel parameter, but I would prefer to have the config in Spacewalk's DB, visible at /rhn/kickstart/KickstartFileDownload.do?ksid=id and maybe even directly edita

[Spacewalk-list] Problem when syncing package profile

2011-09-08 Thread John Hodrien
SW 1.5 Postgres. If I compare a machine with another machine's package profile, select a package and click install, it fails. If I just select that package and install it through the webui normally it works fine. Any ideas? Thanks, jh The following exception occurred while

Re: [Spacewalk-list] RPM download

2011-09-08 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 8 Sep 2011, Frédéric SOSSON wrote: Hello, My goal is to register CentOS6 systems in Sacewalk server. The idea was to download rhn-setup packages at the end of the kickstart then register the system. Maybe the way I do is bad... I just added this to the software list of the kickstar

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Problem when syncing package profile

2011-09-15 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Jan Pazdziora wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:09:54AM +0200, Jan Pazdziora wrote: On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 11:41:52AM +0100, John Hodrien wrote: SW 1.5 Postgres. If I compare a machine with another machine's package profile, select a package and click install, it

[Spacewalk-list] Moving the database

2011-09-20 Thread John Hodrien
Say I wanted to move the postgres database of an installed spacewalk setup. I pg_dump/restore onto the other database server, I add db_host = new-server to the /etc/rhn/rhn.conf Do I need to do anything else? jh ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacew

[Spacewalk-list] Taskomatic error

2011-09-20 Thread John Hodrien
Spacewalk 1.5 Postgres Taskomatic reports errors: INFO | jvm 1| 2011/09/20 09:32:01 | 2011-09-20 09:32:01,138 [DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-5] INFO com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.ChannelRepodata - In the queue: 1 INFO | jvm 1| 2011/09/20 09:32:01 | 2011-09-20 09:32:01,271 [Thread

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Moving the database

2011-09-20 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Jan Pazdziora wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:06:21AM +0100, John Hodrien wrote: Say I wanted to move the postgres database of an installed spacewalk setup. I pg_dump/restore onto the other database server, I add db_host = new-server to the /etc/rhn/rhn.conf Do I need

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Taskomatic error

2011-09-20 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Michael Mraka wrote: http://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2011-September/msg00109.html Sorry, should have spotted that one. jh ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/li

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Optimizing postgresql with Spacewalk 1.5 on CentOS 6.0 x86_64

2011-09-23 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Gerald wrote: Hi, well in fact it does! Now it takes ~8sec per pkg (imported 500pkg's), but performance is fast decreasing. So at the moment the only way to import a large amount of packages is to start, kill, restart postgres, restart spacewalk and start again, and again.

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Renaming of kickstart profile in Spacewalk 1.5 fails

2011-09-26 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011, Scott Worthington wrote: Tomas, Thank you for trying. I cloned my Spacewalk 1.5 (postgresql backend) server, repointed my /etc/yum.repo.d/spacewalk.repo to the Spacewalk 1.6-nightly, and yum updated to the 1.6-nightly edition. In 1.6-nightly on postgresql, renames of exis

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Renaming of kickstart profile in Spacewalk 1.5fails

2011-09-27 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, scott.c.worthing...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, clone does work, but please try to rename the clone or an existing. The issue is not the creation of the cloneN but renaming an existing kickstart or renaming a cloned kickstart in sw 1.5 on postgresql. Renaming worked fine for me.

Re: [Spacewalk-list] PostgreSQL Support

2011-10-07 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Miroslav Suchý wrote: On 10/07/2011 05:10 PM, Wojtak, Greg wrote: Register systems Schedule actions (commands, package updates/removals) Channel syncing to a yum repo via scheduled spacewalk-repo-sync I use that every day. Provisioning via PXE and cobbler OSA check-ins

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Problems Kickstarting CentOS 6.0 on Spacewalk 1.5

2011-10-08 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Scott Rakow wrote: I have been trying to install a base CentOS 6.0 load, using Spacewalk 1.5 (latest,as of Monday 10/3). I hit an installation error when package installs are taking place A fatal error occurred when installing the MAKEDEV package. This could indicate errors

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Problems Kickstarting CentOS 6.0 on Spacewalk 1.5

2011-10-08 Thread John Hodrien
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Scott Rakow wrote: Yep. I had to pull the advanced updates from the cr directory, so it loads correctly, as it required an updated security RPM. Has anyone gotten Spacewalk to work on CentOS 6.0? Yes, it works fine, as long as you don't include the 6.0 updates repo as part

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Installed Systems/Target Systems - 500 error

2011-11-02 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 2 Nov 2011, Jan Pazdziora wrote: I believe you are hitting bug in DBD::Pg https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70953 Can you please try to patch your installation with --- RHN/DB/DataSource.pm.orig 2011-11-02 09:57:28.0 -0400 +++ RHN/DB/DataSource.pm201

[Spacewalk-list] Postgres spacewalk

2011-11-02 Thread John Hodrien
Are people using spacewalk in a decently large setup and finding the performance passable? I'd previously used SW 1.4 Oracle with about 50 hosts and found it tolerable, but I'm not finding this with 1.4 or 1.5 with Postgres. I installed 1.4 Postgres (later upgraded to 1.5), and the performance i

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Postgres spacewalk

2011-11-03 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 2 Nov 2011, Gerald wrote: I'm using spacewalk 1.5/postgres with about 100 hosts. It's horrible slow with postgres compared to oracle, but with oracle I've hit the limits of the free Oracle XE edition so I had to update. I'm not a big oracle fan, but now I'm wishing I had that performanc

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Postgres spacewalk

2011-11-03 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 3 Nov 2011, Bo Maryniuk wrote: On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 03:40:30PM +, John Hodrien wrote: So in pulling out info for a single file, we're doing a join on 1.6 million rows or am I completely misreading that? At least the query say so. And also lookup 1.6M times for a file in

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Postgres spacewalk

2011-11-05 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 4 Nov 2011, Jan Pazdziora wrote: spaceschema-#and cf.config_file_name_id = lookup_config_filename(E'/var/lib/sss/db/cache_default.ldb') to use index on the rhnConfigFile (cf) table, yet it does not happen: ->

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Postgres spacewalk

2011-11-21 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011, Jan Pazdziora wrote: On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 05:25:25PM +, John Hodrien wrote: I'm entirely out of my depth on this one, I'll run it past someone else locally in case that's any help, as I'm not able to contribute a whole lot on this personally.

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Postgres spacewalk

2011-11-21 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011, Jan Pazdziora wrote: On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:13:38AM +, John Hodrien wrote: Do you have your database freshly analyzed, by the way? No. ANALYSE; or is there more to it? Not sure about ANALYSE but ANALYZE should work. You can do ANALYZE VERBOSE to see

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Postgres spacewalk

2011-11-22 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011, Parsons, Aron wrote: I did some digging into this query because it is one that is very obviously slow when working with real systems. It seems that the left join to rhnchecksum is the culprit of this slow query. Here's the effect on execution time by changing it to an inn

[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 1.6 Database problem

2012-01-05 Thread John Hodrien
I've upgrade from 1.5 to 1.6 Postgresql and nominally things look passable. No errors during upgrade. Database is on a physically different server. Web interface works, and almost everything within the ui works as expected. From a clean start of the services, I visit the overview, systems, the

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 1.6 Database problem

2012-01-05 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 5 Jan 2012, Scott Worthington wrote: I have found that, in my setting, on Spacewalk 1.6 on CentOS 6.2, using pgtune, http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgtune/, and customizing /var/lib/pgsql /data/postgresql.conf from the stock configuration file settings has improved the speed of queries an

Re: [Spacewalk-list] WEB TRACEBACK from vhost04.rilp.lan (Fri Jan 6 11:59:22 2012)

2012-01-06 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 6 Jan 2012, Rick van der Linde wrote: Hello list, I recently installed a fresh Spacewalk 1.6 server. Filled some channels and now I wanted to clone a channel (spacewalk client). This gives me a 500 internal server error page. Below is de traceback. I;m unfortunaltely not common to perl

[Spacewalk-list] Error cloning existing kickstart with 1.6

2012-01-06 Thread John Hodrien
Attempting to clone an existing kickstart results in an ISE: 2012-01-06 12:30:47,125 [TP-Processor3] WARN org.apache.struts.util.PropertyMessageResources - Resource org/apache/struts/action/ActionResources_en_US.properties Not Found. 2012-01-06 12:30:47,126 [TP-Processor3] WARN org.apache.

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Error cloning existing kickstart with 1.6

2012-01-06 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 6 Jan 2012, Tomas Lestach wrote: You've correctly identified the problem. We've fixed the issue in nightly. Additionally we've pushed spacewalk-java packages that address the problem into the Spacewalk 1.6 repo. Feel free to upgrade to version 1.6.102-1. Many thanks, jh

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 1.6 Database problem

2012-01-09 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 5 Jan 2012, John Hodrien wrote: I've upgrade from 1.5 to 1.6 Postgresql and nominally things look passable. No errors during upgrade. Database is on a physically different server. Web interface works, and almost everything within the ui works as expected. From a clean start o

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 1.6 Database problem

2012-01-10 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 5 Jan 2012, John Hodrien wrote: From a clean start of the services, I visit the overview, systems, then channels. I've done nothing else. After about a minute or two I start getting stuck SQL queries. Over time these build up until I run out of connections to postgres. Is the

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 1.6 Database problem

2012-01-10 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Scott Worthington wrote: Sitting idle, my postgresql has 3 processes 'idle in transaction'. This is after being up for 3 days after a kernel update & reboot. So *something* is clearly different with my setup. I currently have 20, solely because I'm killing them off when I

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 1.6 Database problem

2012-01-18 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Scott Worthington wrote: John, If you do a bit of of additional tweaking and tinkering with your Spacewalk 1.6, and you do find out what is bogging down your Spacewalk with postgresql database backend & successfully repair it, then please let us all know since it may help

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Database Problems " in transaction"

2012-02-23 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Thomas Ristic wrote: Hi, I see a lot of " in transaction" on my newly installed Spacewalk Server (version: 1.6.66, velease: 1.el6). One of this unfinished transaction seems to lock the table WEB_CONTACT. When I try to schedule a package update for multiple systems, the que

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Database Problems " in transaction"

2012-02-24 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012, Thomas Ristic wrote: Do you have monitoring enabled in your setup? Since I've set web.is_monitoring_backend = 0 on the affected system yesterday I havn't seen any "hangs" and i am not killing the " in transaction" processes at the moment. /etc/rhn.conf has web.is_monitorin

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Database Problems " in transaction"

2012-02-24 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012, Wojtak, Greg (Superfly) wrote: I see these all the time. I am not running any monitoring. I was wondering if they are OSA related? In my case, osa-dispatcher is disabled. jh ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redh

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Database Problems " in transaction"

2012-03-01 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 1 Mar 2012, Miroslav Suchý wrote: This should be fixed in Spacewalk 1.7, which should will released soon. That's excellent news, thanks. jh___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spac

[Spacewalk-list] Tracebacks

2009-04-03 Thread John Hodrien
So you make a kickstart profile and it currently ISEs. Does the traceback sent to the spacewalk administrator *really* have to have the root password you've selected for your system included? Methinks some variables need to be considered not suitable for spewing out over email *whatever* is goin

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Problem Upgrading from 0.4 to 05

2009-04-03 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Frank Paulick wrote: Hi, following the instructions on https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToUpgrade i executed the mentioned script upgrade-certs.sh this went fine without any error message the following "yum upgrade" afterwards went into the following error messag

Re: [Spacewalk-list] reposync and specific channels

2009-04-03 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, m.roth2...@rcn.com wrote: Still looking for any answers as to: a) whether there's any flag for reposync to retrieve from a specific release, and What's stopping you just creating a repo file that has the release hard coded? It's not like there's anything sensible

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Force install, still looking for any answers

2009-04-07 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, m.roth2...@rcn.com wrote: Asking again, since I got no responses: I created a new CentOS 5.3 repository Friday. Today, I unsubscribed my test system to 5.2, and subscribed it to 5.3 and its child channels. I tried to upgrade. First it failed, asserting that it couldn't find

Re: [Spacewalk-list] cobbler generating cobbler.cexceptions.CX:'invalid token errors when controlled by spacewalk

2009-04-08 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Mike McCune wrote: just posted this yesterday: https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2009-April/msg00086.html let me know if that doesn't work! Can we let you know if it does? ;) Certainly has fixed the major problem. Still get a ~daily email that I'll post up

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Force install, still looking for any answers

2009-04-08 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, m.roth2...@rcn.com wrote: Ok, am I *that* obtuse? No. On the spacewalk server, I scheduled a push of an upgrade, 143 packages including the kernel, to UPGRADE my test system to CentOS 5.3 from 5.2. The scheduled *PUSH* failed, telling me (in schedules, failed system), Error w

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Force install, still looking for any answers

2009-04-08 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, mark wrote: John Hodrien wrote: This is part of the 'ick' I found once redhat went multiarch. Two packages: nss_ldap-253-13.el5_2.1.i386 nss_ldap-253-13.el5_2.1.x86_64 What I assume is happening is an upgrade to nss_ldap-253-17.el5.x86_64 (say). What needs

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Recommended channel setup for base & updates

2009-04-09 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Worsham, Michael wrote: Since this is my first real attempt at setting up Spacewalk under CentOS 5, what is the recommended way to setup the channel environment? I was looking at setting up a CentOS 5.2 32-Bit base channel then linking a child CentOS 5.2 32-Bit update channe

RE: [Spacewalk-list] Recommended channel setup for base & updates

2009-04-10 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Worsham, Michael wrote: Okay, with that said, how does one move a normal/base channel to be seen as a child channel instead w/o having to remove the channel and packages and do another rhnpush for updating the child channel? Can't you just create a new child channel, then a

RE: [Spacewalk-list] Recommended channel setup for base & updates

2009-04-10 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Worsham, Michael wrote: Problem is I already did an rhnpush to a separate channel already and there are like 2k RPMs in it. And? This doesn't involve another rhnpush, it just registers the packages as being a member of the child channel. I've not got a spacewalk machine

Re: [Spacewalk-list] spacewalk requirements

2009-04-16 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Michiel van Es wrote: Mem: 1310896k total, 1304648k used, 6248k free, 212k buffers Swap: 557048k total, 557048k used,0k free, 7484k cached This is with 28 clients being updated at the moment...and I will be running approx 100 servers in total. D

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Odd event...

2009-04-21 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, m.roth2...@rcn.com wrote: Well, I started looking at what I have in /var/www/html/pub/-x86_64, and found over 700 packages with *i386* (back to a reposync issue, I think). So I looked at the base channel for CentOS 5.2, and right there, on the first page, is both the 386 and

Re: [Spacewalk-list] spacewalk 0.5 ks activation key issue

2009-04-21 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, a.j.dela...@brighton.ac.uk wrote: Dear all, I have a spacewalk 0.5 server from which I'm trying to ks a client. I use the bare metal ks URL: http://FQDN/ks/cfg/org/1/label/Fedora-11-Beta-x86_64 Which I note is different from the old 0.3 URL as the 0.3 URL would have

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Odd event...

2009-04-21 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, mark wrote: John Hodrien wrote: You're not just referring to all the perfectly legitimate i386 packages that would be part of a 64bit distro? Not when I see both a 386 *and* an x86_64 package for the same software. Err, yes? jh -- "A good scientist is a p

[Spacewalk-list] Migrating systems between spacewalk servers

2009-04-21 Thread John Hodrien
If I have two spacewalk servers configured identically, is there a way to migrate systems from one host to the other? I'm guessing this could be the job for a little script using the spacewalk API to transfer across the required channel and configuration subscriptions, and it's also need to copy

Re: [Spacewalk-list] CentOS 5.2 - a warning

2009-04-22 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, m.roth2...@rcn.com wrote: Well, I've succeeded in reverting to a pre-upgrade snapshot, reregistered the system, and did the upgrade. This is all CentOS 5.2. I'm still on Spacewalk 0.4 HOWEVER, as an FYI, a warning: for some reason, in the x86_64 repository, there are a num

Re: [Spacewalk-list] CentOS 5.2 - a warning]

2009-04-22 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, m.roth2...@rcn.com wrote: Sorry, the kernel module may have been in there due to problems back when I created the repository with reposync. However, at an official mirror, there *are* serious i686 packages. See my response, below. Yes there are i686 packages in the x86_64

Re: [Spacewalk-list] CentOS 5.2 - a warning]

2009-04-22 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, m.roth2...@rcn.com wrote: Well,yes, they are. I know what the 686's are. The big thing was this: when they were in the Spacewalk repository, the query that Spacewalk did on its d/b got them uniquely. So when I told it to upgrade, it did it with those packages. Then, when I w

Re: [Spacewalk-list] CentOS 5.2 - a warning]

2009-04-22 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, m.roth2...@rcn.com wrote: This is where I reckon you're wrong. It's not the install of the i686 package, it's the uninstall (that I'm guessing has happened) of the x86_64 package that caused the problem. But I really am guessing. My guess is that the glibc i686 got in

Re: [Spacewalk-list] CentOS 5.2 - a warning]

2009-04-22 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, m.roth2...@rcn.com wrote: Had a second thought, right after hitting send: are you suggesting that Spacewalk, had it worked correctly, would have installed *both* packages, and that instead, it installed just one? I'm not suggesting anything specific, as I'm not sure you're

Re: [Spacewalk-list] yum update dependency issues

2009-05-05 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 5 May 2009, Mike McCune wrote: Right now the ++ download issue is fixed in the nightly builds and will be available in 0.6. I'll most likely backport this to 0.5 this week and will keep everyone posted. That'd be really appreciated Mike. I've just finished (hopefully) an upgrade from

[Spacewalk-list] Repo

2009-05-08 Thread John Hodrien
RHEL has gone for a walk again off the repo. Just so you know. jh -- "People smart enough to be in mensa should be smart enough to not be in mensa." -- djcapelis /. ___ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewal

Re: [Spacewalk-list] failed dependency problem on spacewalk 0.5

2009-06-02 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Shaun Rampersad wrote: Can anyone tell me why these packages are not available when using the yum command? The generated repodata is incorrect. I have noticed a bug when searching for any package with a "+" in the package name. Even searching gcc-c++ in the package list

Re: [Spacewalk-list] failed dependency problem on spacewalk 0.5

2009-06-02 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Shaun Rampersad wrote: Hi john Thanks for the info. How do I regenerate the repodata on spacewalk for each channel? [cid:_1_A0A484ECA0A47F6C004F8B68422575C9] SHAUN RAMPERSAD If you're thinking that'll fix it, you're sadly mistaken. jh -- "People smart enough to be

Re: [Spacewalk-list] A Couple Questions...

2009-06-05 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Luis Garcia wrote: On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Wojtak, Greg wrote: Hello, 1) on the spacewalk server, if I look at the system I have registered, there are 154 updates that need to be applied.  If I run yum update on the client system, it keeps going out to the inter

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Package rpm is not signed

2009-06-12 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, John McNulty wrote: Hi. Could use a bit of guidance here please. We have a channel for some 32-bit systems with a single child channel underneath for misc layered products. i.e. rhel-5-2-i386-base |__ layered-products The layered-products channel contains 3 rpms that

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Package rpm is not signed

2009-06-12 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Jason Dobies wrote: Turning off gpgcheck in yum.conf doesn't work and there isn't a repo file for this channel either. Not that I really want to turn off gpgcheck because of the extra security it gives. So what's the proper and correct solution to this? Edit /etc/yum/

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Package rpm is not signed

2009-06-12 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Jason Frisvold wrote: On 06/12/2009 07:21 AM, John Hodrien wrote: Personally, I'd describe the solution as blissfully simple; sign the rpms. In a similar vein, I have a channel where I put local RPMS which include ones I've rolled myself as well as RPMs from ot

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Package rpm is not signed

2009-06-12 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, John McNulty wrote: I resolved this by the following method: Your recipe looked sound to me. I'd like to echo Jason Frisvold's sentiment that it would be nice to know if it's possible to add the key to spacewalk so that systems subscribing to a channel automatically pi

Re: [Spacewalk-list] jabberd 2.0 for rhel 5.3

2009-06-17 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Tommi Latti wrote: Reading through the list indicates that the jabberd 2.2 that comes with rhel5.3 doesn't work with spacewalk 0.5 and needs to be downgraded to 2.0... That wasn't my experience when I tried just to test. Some fiddling was required to make 2.2 work, but it

Re: [Spacewalk-list] jabberd 2.0 for rhel 5.3

2009-06-17 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Tommi Latti wrote: On 17.6.2009, at 16.41, ext John Hodrien wrote: On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Tommi Latti wrote: Reading through the list indicates that the jabberd 2.2 that comes with rhel5.3 doesn't work with spacewalk 0.5 and needs to be downgraded to 2.0... That w

Re: [Spacewalk-list] segfault errors and random crashes

2009-06-23 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Michael ORourke wrote: I'm trying to deploy spacewalk 0.5 on some new hardware in a datacenter. When I try pushing a big batch of packages, the system is crashing on me. Here are some relevant errors from /var/log/messages. Jun 16 01:33:28 skywalker kernel: java[11

Re: [Spacewalk-list] osad jabber problems

2009-06-24 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Anton Melser wrote: Can anyone confirm they have osad working on the 0.5 release? I saw a list conversation that seems to suggest that there are problems... Should I just configure every 1 minute cron job on each client and forget about this? I had it working with jabber 2

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Best why to Sync Centos repo??

2009-06-24 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Shaun Rampersad wrote: Thanks for the reply. I'm using the following entry in my yum repo file [Centos4-x86_64-base] name=CentOS-$releasever - Base #baseurl=http://centos.mirror.ac.za/4/os/x86_64/ baseurl=http://mirror.ukhost4u.com/centos/4/os/x86_64/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=htt

Re: [Spacewalk-list] yum update dependency issues

2009-07-01 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, John McNulty wrote: I'd like to second a request for this patch to be backported to 0.5 please, and hopefully an easy way to patch/update an existing 0.5 installation. We've just hit this problem too after a default build of RHEL 5.2, followed by an attempt to upgrade to the

Re: [Spacewalk-list] config management

2009-07-01 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 2 Jul 2009, Tommi Lätti wrote: Is it possible to get the configuration channel configs to apply before the last reboot of a kickstart? At least mine don't get applied unless I manually push them after installation (even when the system is subscribed to the channel via activation key).

Re: [Spacewalk-list] trouble with GPG keys and epel repository

2009-07-09 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, Michiel van Es wrote: Help? :) Well, you've got to install the GPG key on the clients. Through spacewalk, that could be run through a custom command, or you could do it outside of spacewalk. GPG key management it not something spacewalk does, although it would be nice if

Re: [Spacewalk-list] trouble with GPG keys and epel repository

2009-07-10 Thread John Hodrien
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Tommi Lätti wrote: ext John Hodrien wrote: GPG key management it not something spacewalk does, although it would be nice if it did. Hmm, mine does via the kickstart. System -> kickstart -> GPG and SSL keys. Then I just put all the keys there (you have to import th

Re: [Spacewalk-list] http://www.redhat.com/spacewalk/ broken in Firefox 3.5?

2009-07-12 Thread John Hodrien
On Sun, 12 Jul 2009, Brandon Galbraith wrote: Sorry to bother everyone, but when I try to surf to http://www.redhat.com/spacewalk/ in Firefox 3.5, I get the following error: Content Encoding Error The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of

Re: [Spacewalk-list] http://www.redhat.com/spacewalk/ broken in Firefox 3.5?

2009-07-12 Thread John Hodrien
On Sun, 12 Jul 2009, Brandon Galbraith wrote: Odd. When I first tried, shift-reload just produced the same error message. Now, the page comes up just fine. Must be a problem somewhere between myself and Redhat.com. Sorry for the bother! I wasn't saying that. This is a problem I too see. Some

Re: [Spacewalk-list] automatic registration w/ spacewalk after kickstart

2009-07-16 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Ian Hayes wrote: I had a similar problem with CentOS and Fedora 10. I wound up writing a bash script that I wget and execute after first boot, but I know this isn't the proper behavior. Equally I've just hashed it up as a postscript when problems like this have bitten, as

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Setting YUM repos to Spacewalk only?

2009-08-04 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, zac.els...@metavante.com wrote: Yes, you have it correct, I do a mkdir /etc/yum.repos.d/orig mv /etc/yum.repos.d/* /etc/yum.repos.d/orig/. as part of the spacewalk install script I still reckon this is the wrong way of doing it. An upgrade to any of the rpms that own th

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Unknown Key in Cobbler Distro

2009-08-11 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Mike McCune wrote: Like Justin said, after the system finishes kickstarting try running: rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=https:///XMLRPC --sslCACert=/usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT --activationkey=1-037880d329934283fd3264f97aa33317,1-bc356b33a64a3b6c422a35a9bc019a7d and let

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Failed to install RPMs on a remote client..

2009-08-11 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Albert Bryndza wrote: Client execution returned "Error while executing packages action: Public key for audit-libs-python-1.7.7-6.el5_3.3.i386.rpm is not installed [[6]]" (code -1). Well is it? If you've not installed the gpg keys for the rpms you're trying to install on t

Re: [Spacewalk-list] RHEL4 Kickstart Problems

2009-09-03 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Andy Speagle wrote: On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 21:43 -0500, Cliff wrote: Use your own internal tiny url service to shorten and redirect the requests? This might be an option. A couple of things that are eluding me about the Spacewalk+Cobbler configuration. 1) Where would I go

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Java NullPointerExceptions after 0.6 update?

2009-09-10 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Alexandros Soumplis wrote: Well, here are the results... ORG_ID TASK_NAME -- TASK_DATA PRIORITY EARLIEST -- -- -- 1 repo_sync0 08-SEP-09

Re: [Spacewalk-list] error in the docu..

2009-09-14 Thread John Hodrien
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, lukas.mate...@lvr.de wrote: Hallo all together ! There is a error in the documentation. On x86_64 systems the sqlplus client is named sqlplus64 (RHEL 5) ! If someone have for example the x86_64 libs installed and the sqlplus + sqlplus64 installed he will get errors while

Re: AW: [Spacewalk-list] error in the docu..

2009-09-15 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, lukas.mate...@lvr.de wrote: I also used the same RPM as it is described in the install HowTo. But I am running RHEL 5.3 with all patches. Else I can´t explain such a difference. It's a fresh 2 Day old installation. But it seems to be a error which depends on my system config

Re: [Spacewalk-list] error in the docu..

2009-09-15 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Michael Mraka wrote: https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/OracleXeSetup already contains note about oracle_env.sh: WARNING: Don't run oracle_env.sh (or oracle_env.csh) in your environment settings. Instantclient stuff works fine without it. It's usefull only for comma

Re: AW: [Spacewalk-list] Startup error on new install

2009-09-29 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, lukas.mate...@lvr.de wrote: Strange that the install configured Tomcat for 8009. In my installation the installer configured Tomcat on port 8080 as it is standard ! Try to remove Tomcat and install it again, or find out how to change the Port. Are any of you familiar wit

Re: [Spacewalk-list] osad woes ...

2009-10-01 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Taco Scargo wrote: Hi all, As I was pulling my hair out getting osad/jabber working on my spacewalk installation, I decided to just reinstall my whole spacewalk server from scratch. Did so, and still get the infamous "Server did not return a stanza" error. Running on CentO

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Clone channel method throwing error with Boolean

2009-12-01 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, Frey, Evan wrote: I am trying to clone a channel and am getting the error: Could not find translator for class java.lang.Integer to class java.lang.Boolean The XML being sent is channel.software.clone 27371x472419c658e704bb6bda7359b27c67e8 rh3as-i386 summaryCentOS3 name

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