[Spacewalk-list] Error Registering Client

[Sergii Golovatiuk]

I have the same issue on CentOS 5.2 Spacewalk server. rhel-instnum is 
installed though. Could anyone help?

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Wojtak, Greg wrote:
> I followed the wiki docs to set up Oracle XE and Spacewalk 0.3 on a
> CentOS 5.2 system.   I created a channel using the create_channel.py
> script and have created an activation key associated with that channel.
> On the client, I install the spacewalk necessary rpm's per the client
> install instructions in the wiki.  Then, I run the following:
>
> # rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=http://myspacewalk.server.com
> --activationkey=<activationkey> --username=<adminuser>
> --password=<adminpassword> --verbose --force
>
> In /etc/rhn/satellite-httpd/logs/error_log, I am getting the following:
>
> Exception Handler Information
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/server/apacheServer.py", line 58, in __call__
>     ret = f(req)
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/server/apacheHandler.py", line 72, in
> headerParserHandler
>     rhnSQL.initDB()
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/server/rhnSQL/__init__.py", line 78, in initDB
>     str(e_type), str(e_value))
> rhnException: ('Could not initialize Oracle database connection',
> 'exceptions.RuntimeError', 'Unable to acquire Oracle environment
> handle')
>
> RHN 14734 2008/12/11 14:26:56 -04:00: ("DATABASE CONNECTION TO 'xe'
> LOST", "Exception information: 'NoneType' object has no attribute
> 'cursor'")
>
> Has anyone else seen this?  I can't even get a client to register, and
> it looks like the next step pushing content, may be a wash, too, as I
> can't seem to manage the channels in the web interface.  Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Greg
>
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