[rhn-satellite-beta-users] unable to get Kickstart functioning

Mon Apr 2 17:38:04 UTC 2007

I need a little assistance. I'm attempting to use Beta 5 to setup some bare
metak kickstarts and have met with some problems. Can anyone shead light on
the following?

The story so far:
   1. Installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 4)

   2. Installed
   rhn-satellite-4.9.0-14-redhat-linux-as-i386-4-embedded-oracle.iso
   2a. up2date ran.

   3. configured Satellite

   3a. Synchronized base channel. (boy, that took a while .....)

   4. created a Kickstart profile with the following information:

   label = test-profile
   base_channel = Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4 for 32-bit x86)
   kickstart_tree = ks-rhel-i386-ws-4
   Virtualization = none
   dist file = http://ossett.example.com/rhn/kickstart/ks-rhel-i386-ws-4
   rootpw = xxx

   attempt to retrieve bare-metal kickstart string of

   http://ossett.example.com/kickstart/ks/org/1xac0087fcd3b79dc92f6cfc7be3ffd855/label/test-profile

   Attempt to download kickstart config file:
   [gregorsc at oliver tmp]$ wget
   http://ossett.example.com/kickstart/ks/org/1xac0087fcd3b79dc92f6cfc7be3ffd855/label/test-profile
   --11:27:16--
   http://ossett.example.com/kickstart/ks/org/1xac0087fcd3b79dc92f6cfc7be3ffd855/label/test-profile
   Resolving ossett.example.com... 10.65.64.77
   Connecting to ossett.example.com|10.65.64.77|:80... connected.
   HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 500
   11:27:16 ERROR 500: (no description).

   Get an email from the Satellite server with the following verbose info:

The following exception occured while executing this request:
GET /rhn/kickstart/DownloadFile.do

Date:4/2/07 11:31:40 AM MDT
Headers:
  accept: */*
  connection: Keep-Alive
  host: ossett.example.com
  user-agent: Wget/1.10.2 (Red Hat modified)
  content-length: 0

Request:
Local Name = ossett.example.com
Server Name = ossett.example.com
Requested Session Valid = false
Session =
org.apache.catalina.session.StandardSessionFacade at 765da501[session=StandardSession[1163D596418B9EBAE0CAEC0BAF1332EB]]

Protocol = http
Request Locale = en_SG
Request Character Encoding = UTF-8
Attribute Names = org.apache.struts.action.MESSAGE,
javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.fmt.timeZone.request, session,
__sitemesh__filterapplied, requestedUri,
org.apache.struts.action.mapping.instance, org.apache.struts.action.MODULE,

User Information:
No User logged in.

Exception:
javax.servlet.ServletException: channelIn is null!
             at
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processException(RequestProcessor.java:535)

             at
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:433)

             at
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:236)

             at
com.redhat.rhn.frontend.struts.RhnRequestProcessor.process(RhnRequestProcessor.java:70)

             at
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1196)
             at
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:414)
             at
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:743)
             at
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)
             at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:237)

             at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:157)

             at
com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.AuthFilter.doFilter(AuthFilter.java:136)
             at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:186)

             at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:157)

             at
com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.ContextFilter.doFilter(ContextFilter.java:98)

             at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:186)

             at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:157)

             at
com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter.parsePage(PageFilter.java:142)

             at
com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter.doFilter(PageFilter.java:58)

             at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:186)

             at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:157)

             at
com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.SessionFilter.doFilter(SessionFilter.java:52)

             at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:186)

             at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:157)

             at
com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.EnvironmentFilter.doFilter(EnvironmentFilter.java:88)

             at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:186)

             at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:157)

             at
com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:97)

             at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:186)

             at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:157)

             at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:214)

             at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104)

             at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)
             at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invokeInternal(StandardContextValve.java:198)

             at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:152)

             at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104)

             at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)
             at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:137)

             at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104)

             at
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)

             at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:102)

             at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)
             at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)

             at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContext.java:104)

             at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)
             at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:929)
             at
org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:160)
             at
org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler.invoke(JkCoyoteHandler.java:300)
             at
org.apache.jk.common.HandlerRequest.invoke(HandlerRequest.java:374)
             at
org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.invoke(ChannelSocket.java:743)
             at
org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.processConnection(ChannelSocket.java:675)

             at
org.apache.jk.common.SocketConnection.runIt(ChannelSocket.java:866)
             at
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:683)

             at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:568)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: channelIn is null!
             at
com.redhat.rhn.domain.token.ActivationKey.addChannel(ActivationKey.java:230)

             at
com.redhat.rhn.manager.kickstart.KickstartScheduleCommand.createKickstartActivationKey(KickstartScheduleCommand.java:693)

             at
com.redhat.rhn.manager.kickstart.KickstartSessionCreateCommand.<init>(KickstartSessionCreateCommand.java:66)

             at
com.redhat.rhn.frontend.action.kickstart.KickstartHelper.parseKickstartUrl(KickstartHelper.java:196)

             at
com.redhat.rhn.frontend.action.kickstart.RenderKickstartFileAction.execute(RenderKickstartFileAction.java:54)

             at
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:431)

             ... 51 more

Chris Gregors
780-420-8124
Senior Technical Analyst
Information Technology
Enbridge Pipelines Inc.