<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">Hi,<br><br>I was close, but failed at the final step of configuration. Please help! Thank you much in advance!<br><br>Here is the final step of configuration:<br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br># spacewalk-setup<br>** Database: Setting up database connection for PostgreSQL backend.<br>Hostname (leave empty for local)? 10.10.10.10<br>Port [5432]?<br>Database? spacewalk<br>Username? postgres<br>Password? [root password]<br>** Database: Populating database.<br>*** Progress: ##################################<br>* Setting up users and groups.<br>** GPG: Initializing GPG and importing key.<br>** GPG: Creating /root/.gnupg directory<br>You must enter an email address.<br>Admin Email Address? root@localhost<br>* Performing initial configuration.<br>* Activating Spacewalk.<br>**
 Loading Spacewalk Certificate.<br>** Verifying certificate locally.<br>** Activating Spacewalk.<br>There was a problem activating the satellite: Remote activation failure.<br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
# tail -50 /var/log/rhn/rhn_installation.log<br>Installation log of Spacewalk<br>Command: /usr/bin/spacewalk-setup<br>Shutting down spacewalk services...<br>Stopping RHN Taskomatic...<br>RHN Taskomatic was not running.<br>Stopping cobbler daemon: [FAILED]<br>Stopping rhn-search...<br>rhn-search was not running.<br>Stopping httpd: [  OK  ]<br>Stopping tomcat6: [  OK  ]<br>Shutting down osa-dispatcher: [FAILED]<br>Terminating jabberd processes ...<br>Stopping router: [FAILED]<br>Stopping sm: [FAILED]<br>Stopping c2s: [FAILED]<br>Stopping s2s: [FAILED]<br>Done.<br>Enabling spacewalk services...<br>Done<br>/root/.gnupg/pubring.gpg<br>------------------------<br>pub   1024D/F24F1B08 2002-04-23 [expired: 2004-04-22]<br>uid                  Red Hat, Inc (Red Hat Network) <rhn-feedback@redhat.com><br>gpg: key F24F1B08: "Red Hat, Inc (Red Hat
 Network) <rhn-feedback@redhat.com>" not changed<br>gpg: Total number processed: 1<br>gpg:              unchanged: 1<br>/var/lib/rhn/rhn-satellite-prep/etc/rhn/cluster.ini<br>/var/lib/rhn/rhn-satellite-prep/etc/rhn/rhn.conf.orig<br>/var/lib/rhn/rhn-satellite-prep/etc/rhn/rhn.conf<br>/var/lib/rhn/rhn-satellite-prep/etc -> /etc<br>/var/lib/rhn/rhn-satellite-prep/etc/rhn -> /etc/rhn<br>/var/lib/rhn/rhn-satellite-prep/etc/rhn/cluster.ini -> /etc/rhn/cluster.ini<br> * Making backup of /etc/rhn/cluster.ini to /etc/sysconfig/rhn/backup-2012-07-31-13:55/etc/rhn/cluster.ini<br>/var/lib/rhn/rhn-satellite-prep/etc/rhn/rhn.conf -> /etc/rhn/rhn.conf<br> * Making backup of /etc/rhn/rhn.conf to /etc/sysconfig/rhn/backup-2012-07-31-13:55/etc/rhn/rhn.conf<br>RHN_PARENT: satellite.rhn.redhat.com<br>Error reported from RHN: <Fault -211: 'Invalid channel'><br>ERROR: unhandled
 XMLRPC fault upon remote activation: <Fault -211: 'Invalid channel'><br>ERROR: <Fault -211: 'Invalid channel'><br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
<br>Nick</div></body></html>