Thank you so much for giving this some attention and patching, Michael!
Sadly, the issue remains. First thing this morning I logged into the instance
of Spacewalk experiencing this issue and ensured that it had indeed received
spacewalk-backend-tools-2.10.25 overnight, and it had. So I
I have a spacewalk 2.9 server with CentOS 7 clients. When I run a scheduled
remote command on 50 systems, usually about half of the systems will get
marked as "failed" with the error "Invalid function call attempted (code
6)".
They all have the same configuration, and every line put in the remote
Hi Paul,
This a more often issue than everybody things, in order to fix this,
what we do is to run the next commands on the client side:
Disable all the plugins to disable rhnplugin: sed -i
's/plugins=1/plugins=0/g' /etc/yum.conf
Disable all the external repositores: yum-config-manager
Just to add some more info that might be relevant.
The spacewalk server itself is running CentOS 7.7, kernel
3.10.0-1062.9.1.el7.x86_64, and most of the clients that are failing are
running the same kernel.
There's some machines running an older kernel - 3.10.0-862.14.4.el7.x86_64
- and on these