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<p class="MsoNormal">We're having a vexing issue with a new Spacewalk 2.6 installation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We've made it a slave to a master (security reasons; only one SW is exposed to the Internet) and have everything synchronized and communicating successfully. But when we try to do an update or install with yum, we get a 404 error like
this:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Error downloading packages:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> nss-tools-3.28.4-8.el7.x86_64: failed to retrieve getPackage/nss-tools-3.28.4-8.el7.x86_64.rpm from our_repo<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I find errors get logged in /var/log/httpd/error_log simultaneously like this:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[Mon Dec 18 20:02:31.638648 2017] [:error] [pid 53696] Spacewalk 53696 2017/12/18 20:02:31 +01:00: WARNING: log path not found; attempting to create /var/log/rhn<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[Mon Dec 18 20:02:31.638680 2017] [:error] [pid 53696] Spacewalk 53696 2017/12/18 20:02:31 +01:00: (None, None)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[Mon Dec 18 20:02:31.638810 2017] [:error] [pid 53696] Spacewalk 53696 2017/12/18 20:02:31 +01:00: ERROR: unable to create log file path /var/log/rhn<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[Mon Dec 18 20:02:31.638837 2017] [:error] [pid 53696] Spacewalk 53696 2017/12/18 20:02:31 +01:00: (<type 'exceptions.OSError'>, OSError(13, 'Permission denied'))<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Of course, /var/log/rhn exists and has proper permissions. I even set permissions to 777 just in case with no positive effect.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">One other possible clue: in /var/log/rhn/rhn_taskomatic_daemon.log I found this:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">INFO | jvm 1 | 2017/12/18 20:06:32 | com.mchange.v2.cfg.DelayedLogItem [ level -> FINE, text -> "The configuration file for resource identifier '/mchange-commons.properties' could not be found. Skipping.", exception -> java.io.FileNotFoundException:
Resource not found at path '/mchange-commons.properties'.]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And in Googling that I found an unreplied post here that says:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">--<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tomcat6 is having a problem finding mchange-commons when it’s starting up which causes the web / api interface to fail, causing other parts of spacewalk to fail to initialize.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">How / where can I get the mchange-commons installed and linked properly so that tomcat will be able to start?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">--<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So, in summary:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Spacewalk set up as slave<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Clients can see SW<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- SW knows which systems need upgrades<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- Upgrades or installs fail with 404 error<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">--<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Ray Clouse</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> | Senior Systems Application Engineer | 3349 Michelson Drive Suite 150 | Irvine, CA 92612
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