What's in jabberd logs in /var/log/messages? You should be able to connect. You can stop jabberd, remove the db et restart jabber to force it to recreate the db, just in case the DB is corrupted <div class="gmail_quote"> 2011/9/7 Gomes, Rich <<a href="mailto:rich.gomes@uniform.aramark.com">rich.gomes@uniform.aramark.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div>Thanks. I do see the process going to sleep for 10 seconds but fails when it wakes up: (from osa log) 2011/09/07 10:45:30 -04:00 26061 <a href="http://0.0.0.0" target="_blank">0.0.0.0</a>: osad/jabber_lib.setup_connection('ERROR', 'Traceback (most recent call last):\n File "/usr/share/rhn/osad/jabber_lib.py", line 250, in setup_connection\n c = self._get_jabber_client(js)\n File "/usr/share/rhn/osad/jabber_lib.py", line 307, in _get_jabber_client\n c.connect()\n File "/usr/share/rhn/osad/jabber_lib.py", line 564, in connect\n jabber.Client.connect(self)\n File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/jabber/xmlstream.py", line 464, in connect\n else: self._sock.connect((self._hostIP, self._port))\n File "<string>", line 1, in connect\nerror: (111, \'Connection refused\')\n') 2011/09/07 10:45:30 -04:00 26061 <a href="http://0.0.0.0" target="_blank">0.0.0.0</a>: osad/jabber_lib.setup_connection('Could not connect to any jabber server',) 2011/09/07 10:45:30 -04:00 26061 <a href="http://0.0.0.0" target="_blank">0.0.0.0</a>: osad/jabber_lib.main('Unable to connect to jabber servers, sleeping 10 seconds',) From: <a href="mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com" target="_blank">spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com" target="_blank">spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com</a>] On Behalf Of Pierre Casenove Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 1:51 AM<div class="im"> To: <a href="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a> </div>Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Waiting for Tomcat to be ready... <div><div></div><div class="h5"> No, this one is a known issue of spacewalk 1.5 that might happen on some installation (I have this minor issue): 10 seconds after this message, osa-dispatcher reconnects to jabberd (check /var/log/rhn/osa-dispatcher.log to be sure). <div>Tomcat should complain in var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out</div><div> </div><div> <div>2011/9/6 Gomes, Rich <<a href="mailto:rich.gomes@uniform.aramark.com" target="_blank">rich.gomes@uniform.aramark.com</a>><div><div>So last week I decided to remove Spacewalk and install again, including Oracle. Spacewalk came up after the install, no issues.But now it is back to “Waiting for Tomcat to be ready…” Looks like it’s an issue with the osa-dispatcher starting? Starting osa-dispatcher: RHN 15121 2011/09/06 14:08:32 -04:00: ('Traceback (most recent call last):\n File "/usr/share/rhn/osad/jabber_lib.py", line 250, in setup_connection\n c = self._get_jabber_client(js)\n File "/usr/share/rhn/osad/jabber_lib.py", line 307, in _get_jabber_client\n c.connect()\n File "/usr/share/rhn/osad/jabber_lib.py", line 564, in connect\n jabber.Client.connect(self)\n File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/jabber/xmlstream.py", line 464, in connect\n else: self._sock.connect((self._hostIP, self._port))\n File "<string>", line 1, in connect\nerror: (111, \'Connection refused\')\n',) [ OK ]Starting tomcat5: [ OK ] Waiting for tomcat to be ready ... Here’s what a ‘strace -fe trace=network osa-dispatcher –N’ reveals: RHN 20145 2011/09/06 15:29:29 -04:00: ('Traceback (most recent call last):\n File "/usr/share/rhn/osad/jabber_lib.py", line 250, in setup_connection\n c = self._get_jabber_client(js)\n File "/usr/share/rhn/osad/jabber_lib.py", line 307, in _get_jabber_client\n c.connect()\n File "/usr/share/rhn/osad/jabber_lib.py", line 564, in connect\n jabber.Client.connect(self)\n File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/jabber/xmlstream.py", line 464, in connect\n else: self._sock.connect((self._hostIP, self._port))\n File "<string>", line 1, in connect\nerror: (111, \'Connection refused\')\n',) Thoughts? <div><div style="border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;"> From: Gomes, Rich Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 4:13 PM To: <a href="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a> Subject: Waiting for Tomcat to be ready...</div></div><div> Running SW 1.5 and cannot start the service, hangs at starting Tomcat services. Tried the fix in the thread below, but still having the issue. Anyone have a tried and true fix for this? <a href="http://osdir.com/ml/spacewalk-devel/2011-03/msg00096.html" target="_blank">http://osdir.com/ml/spacewalk-devel/2011-03/msg00096.html</a> Thanks in advance,Rich </div></div> </div> _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Spacewalk-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">Spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list</a> </div> </div></div></div></div></div> _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Spacewalk-list@redhat.com">Spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list</a> </blockquote></div>