[Spacewalk-list] Updating a machine after registering.

Gerhardus Geldenhuis gerhardus.geldenhuis at gmail.com
Wed Oct 22 21:15:41 UTC 2008


Hi Thanks,I will try rhn_register tomorrow, I am really hopefull that it
will have improved behaviour.

The dmi errors was because I am running xen, and you need to add an
exception to the code when checking for dmi info...

Regards

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 7:11 PM, <puck at i29.net> wrote:

>  I thought it might've been the DMI error that was causing you problems but
> I found some threads on the rhn-satellite lists that confirm others have had
> similar issues but it didn't affect them any. So hopefully that wouldn't be
> stopping your systems from registering - it's just an error message that can
> be safely ignored.
>
> Have you tried registering your system with rhn_register to see if that
> changes the behavior? I've had better luck with rhn_register than rhnreg_ks,
> personally. It might be worth a try.
>
>
> Jem
>
>
> Gerhardus.Geldenhuis at gta-travel.com wrote:
>
> Hi
> I have rebuild my server and added the output of -vvv for rhnreg_ks and
> rhn-profile-sync
>
> rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=http://longrhn01a/XMLRPC --activationkey=1-test02
> -vvv
> D: opening  db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv
> D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0
> D: locked   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> Error reading hardware information: dbus_bindings.DBusException
> Error reading DMI information: dbus_bindings.DBusException
> D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Providename rdonly mode=0x0
> D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Providename
> D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> D: closed   db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> D: May free Score board((nil))
>
> and
>
> updateLoginInfo() login info
> D: login(forceUpdate=True) invoked
> D: opening  db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv
> D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0
> D: locked   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Providename rdonly mode=0x0
> logging into up2date server
> D: writeCachedLogin() invoked
> D: Wrote pickled loginInfo at  1224695184.25  with expiration of
> 1224698784.25  seconds.
> successfully retrieved authentication token from up2date server
> D: logininfo: {'X-RHN-Server-Id': 1000010008, 'X-RHN-Auth-Server-Time':
> '1224695184.24', 'X-RHN-Auth': 'LTSOP7CR1OUVAqvZn1a6TQ==',
> 'X-RHN-Auth-Channels': [['centos-5-x86_64', '20081021125218', '1',
> '1']], 'X-RHN-Auth-User-Id': '', 'X-RHN-Auth-Expire-Offset': '3600.0'}
> Updating package profile...
> Updating package profile
> Updating hardware profile...
> Error reading hardware information: dbus_bindings.DBusException
> Error reading DMI information: dbus_bindings.DBusException
> D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Providename
> D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> D: closed   db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> D: May free Score board((nil))
>
> Regards
>
>
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com <spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com>] On Behalf Of Gerhardus.Geldenhuis at gta-travel.com
> Sent: 22 October 2008 16:15
> To: puck at i29.net; spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: RE: [Spacewalk-list] Updating a machine after registering.
>
> That is definetely all of it. I noticed that too, I need to
> rebuild the
> machine and try again to see if there is a difference. Even though it
> does not fail at the hardware profile now it still does not
> mark any of
> the packages as out of date on the spacewalk server.
>
> Regards
>
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com <spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com>] On Behalf Of puck at i29.net
> Sent: 22 October 2008 16:01
> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Updating a machine after registering.
>
> Are you sure that was all of the output from the command?
>
>
>  It doesn't
>
>
>  look like it tried to update the hardware profile this
>
>
>  time, which is
>
>
>  where the errors appeared in your original post.
>
> Jem
>
> Gerhardus.Geldenhuis at gta-travel.com wrote:
>
>
>  Hi
> Here is the output:
>
> D: login(forceUpdate=True) invoked
> D: opening  db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv
> D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0
> D: locked   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Providename
>
>
>  rdonly mode=0x0
>
>
>  logging into up2date server
> D: writeCachedLogin() invoked
> D: Wrote pickled loginInfo at  1224681100.04  with expiration of
> 1224684700.04  seconds.
> successfully retrieved authentication token from up2date server
> D: logininfo: {'X-RHN-Server-Id': 1000010003,
>
>
>  'X-RHN-Auth-Server-Time':
>
>
>  '1224681100.03', 'X-RHN-Auth': 'DHANoitGU5CwrMW7XHVlDA==',
> 'X-RHN-Auth-Channels': [['centos-5-x86_64', '20081021125218', '1',
> '1']], 'X-RHN-Auth-User-Id': '',
>
>
>  'X-RHN-Auth-Expire-Offset': '3600.0'}
>
>
>  Updating package profile...
> Updating package profile
> D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Providename
> D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> D: closed   db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> D: May free Score board((nil))
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> 	From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com <spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com>] On Behalf Of
>
>
>  puck at i29.net
>
>  	Sent: 22 October 2008 14:06
> 	To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> 	Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Updating a machine after
> registering.
> 	
> 	
> 	Could you try running rhn-profile-sync -vvv to get more output
> and post that back to the list?
> 	
> 	Jem
> 	
> 	
> 	Gerhardus.Geldenhuis at gta-travel.com wrote:
>
> 		Hi
> 		I am using the following versions on the client machine:
> 		rhn-profile-sync (Red Hat Network Client Tools)
> 0.4.17-8.el5
> 		
> 		rhn packages
> 		~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 		rhnlib-2.2.5-1.el5
> 		yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.3-6.6
> 		rhn-check-0.4.17-8.el5
> 		rhnsd-4.6.1-1.el5
> 		rhn-setup-0.4.17-8.el5
> 		rhn-client-tools-0.4.17-8.el5
> 		
> 		which are running on Centos5 2.6.18-92.el5xen #1 SMP Tue
> Jun 10 19:20:18
> 		EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 		
> 		The dates are synced properly. Running rhn-profile-sync
> gives the
> 		following error:
> 		Updating package profile...
> 		Updating hardware profile...
> 		Error reading hardware information:
> dbus_bindings.DBusException
> 		Error reading dmi info : dbus_bindings.DBusException
> 		
> 		So it appears to be working for package profile but not
> for the hardware
> 		profile. It does not however update the package profile
> on the spacewalk
> 		server.
> 		
> 		How do I check if there is an incompatibility between
> the base channel
> 		of the activation key used for registration and the
> system I am trying
> 		to update?
> 		
> 		Regards
>
>
>
>
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Gerhardus Geldenhuis
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