On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 2:54 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, folks: it works. I did the completely clean, 'Net install of CentOS 5.2 > (32-bit, if it makes any difference). Plain vanilla, server. I added LVM > partitions for oracle and satellite, mounted 'em. > > Installed Oracle (and sqlplus works just find without tnsnames.ora in /etc, > as long as ORACLE_HOME and LD_LIBRARY_PATH are set). > > wget > http://stahnma.fedorapeople.org/spacewalk-tools/5Server/i386/rhel-instnum-1.0.8-1.el5.noarch.rpm > rpm -ivh rhel-instnum-1.0.8-1.el5.noarch.rpm > > Had to install pyOpenSSL to install rhnlib > yum install pyOpenSSL > wget > http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lrsmith/Spacewalk/rpms/rhnlib-2.2.5-1.noarch.rpm > rpm -ivh rhnlib-2.2.5-1.noarch.rpm > > Then I could successfully do yum install spacewalk. > *THIS* time, when I ran spacewalk-setup --disconnected, it did *not* freeze, > and completed successfully. Btw, I can't be positive - I unfortunately didn't > take a note, but when it froze, previously, it did not get to installation > complete; I think it froze after updateing d/b config; whether it was on > setting up cobbler, or restarting services, but it was one or the other. > > And I can get to manage channels. So, now my manager is having me reset up a > production server. He doesn't want me to spend a lot of time on figuring out > what broke it, but as time allows, I intend to lock down this server, > following what they did, and if I can find what breaks it, I will post here. > > Thanks to everyone - your help has been very much appreciated. Sorry if I got > surly, but my manager wanted this running, so there was pressure to make it > so.
Thank you for the apology and for sticking with it. Both are really hard (as I know too damn well :( ). -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
