From felmasper at gmail.com Wed Jun 1 20:21:42 2011 From: felmasper at gmail.com (Felipe Pereira) Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 17:21:42 -0300 Subject: [rhn-users] RHN unstable today? Message-ID: Is it only me, or rhn.redhat.com really is under maintenance/unstable? -- Felipe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cogel at uni-koeln.de Thu Jun 2 10:24:54 2011 From: cogel at uni-koeln.de (Berthold Cogel) Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:24:54 +0200 Subject: [rhn-users] RHN unstable today? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4DE764F6.9080701@uni-koeln.de> Am 01.06.2011 22:21, schrieb Felipe Pereira: > Is it only me, or rhn.redhat.com really is under maintenance/unstable? > > > > _______________________________________________ > rhn-users mailing list > rhn-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users I'm seeing this: yum update Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ? yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 309, in user_main errcode = main(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 157, in main base.getOptionsConfig(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 187, in getOptionsConfig self.conf File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 665, in conf = property(fget=lambda self: self._getConfig(), File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 254, in _getConfig self.plugins.run('init') File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 179, in run func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs)) File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/rhnplugin.py", line 127, in init_hook svrChannels = rhnChannel.getChannelDetails() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnChannel.py", line 86, in getChannelDetails sourceChannels = getChannels() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnChannel.py", line 112, in getChannels up2dateChannels = s.up2date.listChannels(up2dateAuth.getSystemId()) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnserver.py", line 50, in __call__ return rpcServer.doCall(method, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 204, in doCall ret = method(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1096, in __call__ return self.__send(self.__name, args) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 38, in _request1 ret = self._request(methodname, params) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhn/rpclib.py", line 425, in _request raise InvalidRedirectionError( rhn.rpclib.InvalidRedirectionError: HTTPS redirected to HTTP is not supported Changing the ServerURL from https:// to http:// helps at least on our RHN Proxy. But I still get this during the update: There was a fatal error communicating with the server. The message was: Name or service not known On the other systems changing the protocol doesn't help: There was an error communicating with RHN. RHN channel support will be disabled. Error communicating with server. The message was: Name or service not known Regards Berthold Cogel From mij at irwan.name Wed Jun 15 08:40:01 2011 From: mij at irwan.name (Mohd Irwan Jamaluddin) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:40:01 +0800 Subject: [rhn-users] Required IP Address When DNS Is Not In Use Message-ID: Hi, I've a system that I can't use DNS. Therefore, I've to rely on /etc/hosts in order to use RHN. Here is the snippet of /etc/hosts which contains some IP Address belong to Red Hat, --------- 209.132.183.42 rhn.redhat.com 209.132.183.44 xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com 209.132.183.61 ftp.redhat.com 209.132.183.81 redhat.com 209.132.183.19 people.redhat.com --------- At present, I'm able to register (using rhn_register) my system in RHN but I can't install/update package via yum. Below is the error message, ---------- [root at sgbmedprod02 ~]# yum update Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security Error: failed to retrieve repodata/1b944da74c82902e4fc9057b4af2dbf846b082a8-primary.xml.gz from rhel-x86_64-server-5 error was [Errno 4] IOError: --------- Syslog only mentions this error, --------- Jun 15 15:59:19 sgbmedprod02 : error getting update info: failed to retrieve repodata/1b944da74c82902e4fc9057b4af2dbf846b082a8-primary.xml.gz from rhel-x86_64-server-5 error was [Errno 4] IOError: --------- >From error message, it clearly states yum failed to perform DNS resolution. Any idea how can I rectify this? From mij at irwan.name Wed Jun 15 09:12:23 2011 From: mij at irwan.name (Mohd Irwan Jamaluddin) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:12:23 +0800 Subject: [rhn-users] Required IP Address When DNS Is Not In Use In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Mohd Irwan Jamaluddin wrote: > Hi, > > I've a system that I can't use DNS. Therefore, I've to rely on > /etc/hosts in order to use RHN. Here is the snippet of /etc/hosts > which contains some IP Address belong to Red Hat, > --------- > 209.132.183.42 ?rhn.redhat.com > 209.132.183.44 ?xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com > 209.132.183.61 ?ftp.redhat.com > 209.132.183.81 ?redhat.com > 209.132.183.19 ?people.redhat.com > --------- > > At present, I'm able to register (using rhn_register) my system in RHN > but I can't install/update package via yum. Below is the error > message, > ---------- > [root at sgbmedprod02 ~]# yum update > Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security > Error: failed to retrieve > repodata/1b944da74c82902e4fc9057b4af2dbf846b082a8-primary.xml.gz from > rhel-x86_64-server-5 > error was [Errno 4] IOError: name resolution')> > --------- > > Syslog only mentions this error, > --------- > Jun 15 15:59:19 sgbmedprod02 : error getting update info: failed to > retrieve repodata/1b944da74c82902e4fc9057b4af2dbf846b082a8-primary.xml.gz > from rhel-x86_64-server-5 error was [Errno 4] IOError: (-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution')> > --------- > > From error message, it clearly states yum failed to perform DNS > resolution. Any idea how can I rectify this? > Ok, I've found the root cause: http://hackingredhat.com/index.php?title=Changes_in_Red_Hat_Network_%28RHN%29_that_Affect_Yum_and_Up2date_Downloads_in_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_4.8_and_5.4 Adding up below entries to /etc/hosts solve my problem, --------- 173.222.132.218 content-xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com 118.214.122.169 content-web.rhn.redhat.com 173.222.132.217 content-satellite.rhn.redhat.com --------- From vadim at arros.com Tue Jun 21 13:53:18 2011 From: vadim at arros.com (Vadim Ratinov) Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:53:18 -0400 Subject: [rhn-users] RHN API user.createUser() call is missing from documentation Message-ID: I've been using the RHN Public API call user.createUser() for quite some time and today when I went back to check on some documentation about it I noticed that it is missing from the documentation: https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/Red_Hat_Network/API_Documentation/user/UserHandler.html I know it still works but I'm concerned if it is still supported and why the documentation was removed for it. Anyone have a clue?