<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=us-ascii" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> I had the same thing when I installed spacewalk for the first time. For some reason the installer didn't create a /var/satellite/ directory so I have to create it and change the owner to apache. Jem David Nutter wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:20081010184516.GG25910@bioss.ac.uk" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:41:37AM -0700, Sean Allin wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I'm having an issue on pushing a package update up to spacewalk for libtiff-devel for CentOS. The spacewalk server is an update from 0.1 to 0.2. Following is the log message: Uploading package /mnt/sw-repo/CENTOS/centos/5/updates/i386/RPMS/libtiff-devel-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.i386.rpm Using POST request Internal server error 500 Internal Server Error Error pushing /mnt/sw-repo/CENTOS/centos/5/updates/i386/RPMS/libtiff-devel-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.i386.rpm: Error 500Error Message: Package upload failed: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/satellite/redhat/1/a27/libtiff-devel' Error Class Code: 50 Error Class Info: Invalid information uploaded to the server (500) Waiting 4 seconds and trying again... Giving up after 3 attempts All other package updates worked ok. Any suggestions on debugging? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Check the permissions on the /var/satellite/redhat directory and subdirectories. If you ran /usr/sbin/update-packages as root, the apache:apache permissions required for the upload to work will have been replaced with root:root. I have been bitten by that issue just today, in fact :) Regards, </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>