[Spacewalk-list] XMLRPC interface problems shortly after startup

[Ian Anderson]

I've been running into the following problem:

Just after I've started my spacewalk server, I am able to access
functions through the XMLRPC interface.  However, after a few minutes I
am unable to use the XMLRPC interface until I restart the tomcat5
service, after which I can use it for another couple minutes before it
locks up again.
The web interface does not seem to be affected by this.

On a related note the spacewalk installation does not appear to include
the api documentation:

all pages linking from https://192.168.0.5/rhn/apidoc/index.jsp return
not found. Seems like the entire handlers subdirectory is missing.

My configuration is:

Spacewalk server:
CentOS 5.2 running under VMWare Server 2.0 RC1

client
CentOS 5.2 running on bare metal

test script:

#!/usr/bin/env python
import xmlrpclib

SATELLITE_HOST = "192.168.0.5"
SATELLITE_URL = "https://%s/rhn/rpc/api" % SATELLITE_HOST
login = "spacewalk"
password = "spacewalk"

print SATELLITE_URL
#connect to the server
client = xmlrpclib.Server(SATELLITE_URL, verbose=0)
# get the session key
key = client.auth.login(login, password)
# get the list of users
print client.user.listUsers(key)
print client.kickstart.listKickstartableChannels(key)
# list = client.kickstart.listKickstartableChannels(key)
# for group in list:
#   print group.get('description')

client.auth.logout(key)

Output (with errors):

https://192.168.0.5/rhn/rpc/api
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "xmlrpctest.py", line 13, in ?
    key = client.auth.login(login, password)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1096, in __call__
    return self.__send(self.__name, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1383, in __request
    verbose=self.__verbose
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1147, in request
    return self._parse_response(h.getfile(), sock)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1286, in _parse_response
    return u.close()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 744, in close
    raise Fault(**self._stack[0])
xmlrpclib.Fault: <Fault -1: 'java.lang.IllegalStateException: Stopwatch
must be reset before being restarted. '>

Any idea what the problem is?

Ian