<div dir="ltr">I don't see Ubuntu in the list of manageable systems. Not saying it cannot be done, though.<div> </div><div><a href="http://spacewalk.redhat.com/faq.html#compare">http://spacewalk.redhat.com/faq.html#compare</a> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 3:01 PM, William Palfreman <<a href="mailto:william@palfreman.com" target="_blank">william@palfreman.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I am building an evaluation spacewalk system, so as to test out its suitability. We have here a mixture of RHEL6, Ubuntu and some SUSE and FreeBSD. At the moment I am focusing on the Ubuntu systems, as the RHEL ones already get this from the real RHN site, so an overview of the update state for managed systems is not so urgent. With a RHEL machines I can register with this activation key and get the (currently empty) channel I intend to use for ubuntu. With an Ubuntu system I get nothing. I don't see any channels available for it in the web interface, and rhn-channel -l says "This system is not associated with any channel" and with -L gives no output after asking for my username and password. Any ideas? # rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=http:/myhostname/XMLRPC --activationkey="2-xxx-ubuntu" --force Warning: unable to enable rhnsd with chkconfig # ps axuwww | grep rhnsd root 2412 0.0 0.0 7176 712 ? Ss May24 0:01 /usr/sbin/rhnsd root 5888 0.0 0.0 9392 924 pts/0 S+ 20:55 0:00 grep --color=auto rhnsd # rhn-channel -l This system is not associated with any channel # tail /var/log/up2date File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 654, in __dump f(self, value, write) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 658, in dump_nil raise TypeError, "cannot marshal None unless allow_none is enabled" <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: cannot marshal None unless allow_none is enabled [Tue May 28 20:50:31 2013] up2date Warning: haldaemon or messagebus service not running. Cannot probe hardware and DMI information. [Tue May 28 20:55:35 2013] up2date Warning: haldaemon or messagebus service not running. Cannot probe hardware and DMI information. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do I need the hal daemon running to subscribe to channels? (BTW, the above error I fixed earlirwith this patch in /usr/lib. I read in the forum archives that it is an Ubuntu bug: --- python2.7/xmlrpclib.py 2013-05-28 20:44:38.000000000 +0200 +++ new/xmlrpclib.py 2013-05-28 20:44:24.000000000 +0200 @@ -654,8 +654,8 @@ f(self, value, write) def dump_nil (self, value, write): - if not self.allow_none: - raise TypeError, "cannot marshal None unless allow_none is enabled" +# if not self.allow_none: +# raise TypeError, "cannot marshal None unless allow_none is enabled" write("<value><nil/></value>") dispatch[NoneType] = dump_nil _______________________________________________ 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> </div>