<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"> </head> <body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> <div> <div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I tried registering the server to itself, and don’t recall why right now, but it didn’t work. Prior to attempting to register itself, I had no problems w/ registering machines. I had to register a new server soon afterwards, and when I went to do so, was unable to. Its giving me:</div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> REGISTRATION ------------ * registering An error has occurred: Error communicating with server. The message was: Name or service not known See /var/log/up2date for more information *** Error: Registering the system failed. </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Applicable info in up2date:</div> <div> [Mon Jan 19 17:06:41 2015] up2date Updating package profile [Tue Jan 20 09:30:05 2015] up2date logging into up2date server [Tue Jan 20 09:30:05 2015] up2date successfully retrieved authentication token from up2date server [Wed Jan 21 09:30:05 2015] up2date logging into up2date server [Wed Jan 21 09:30:05 2015] up2date successfully retrieved authentication token from up2date server [Wed Jan 21 13:42:54 2015] up2date A socket error occurred: [Errno -2] Name or service not known, attempt #1 [Wed Jan 21 13:42:54 2015] up2date Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/rhnreg_ks", line 218, in <module> cli.run() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhncli.py", line 96, in run sys.exit(self.main() or 0) File "/usr/sbin/rhnreg_ks", line 90, in main rhnreg.getCaps() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnreg.py", line 248, in getCaps s.capabilities.validate() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnserver.py", line 178, in __get_capabilities self.registration.welcome_message() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnserver.py", line 63, in __call__ return rpcServer.doCall(method, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 203, in doCall ret = method(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1199, in __call__ return self.__send(self.__name, args) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 37, in _request1 ret = self._request(methodname, params) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/rhn/rpclib.py", line 384, in _request self._handler, request, verbose=self._verbose) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/rhn/transports.py", line 170, in request headers, fd = req.send_http(host, handler) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/rhn/transports.py", line 720, in send_http self._connection.connect() File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/rhn/connections.py", line 165, in connect socket.AF_UNSPEC, socket.SOCK_STREAM) <class 'up2date_client.up2dateErrors.CommunicationError'>: Anyone run into this? </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Mike Anderson | Systems Engineer | PaySpan®, Inc. Two Ravinia Drive, Suite 1710, Atlanta, GA 30346 | (404) 665-3020 <a href="mailto:mike.anderson@payspan.com" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; color: blue;">Mike.Anderson@PaySpan.com</a> </div> </div> </div> <pre wrap>The PaySpan e-mail gateway <mailgw01> made the following annotations. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Confidentiality statement *********************************************************************** Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, copy, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, or not an agent of the intended recipient responsible for delivering this message, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.[TW] 01/21/15, 14:00:00 </pre></body> </html>