[Spacewalk-list] Why I want to give up on spacewalk

[Luis Garcia]

Can you dump vmware?  I've had a terrible time getting both vmware and
spacewalk to work on the same box.  I think it has something to do
with configuring apache and tomcat, but I haven't looked into it. Or
find a space box someplace?

Is there anything else that's running that might want to use the
apache server on that box?

And I did install spacewalk 0.4 on Centos5.2 after the middle of last
week-  Monday morning, to be exact.
This doc helped:

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PackageManagement/Spacewalk

HTH,
~Luis


On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:48 PM,  <m.roth2006 at rcn.com> wrote:
> I have gotten *nowhere* with the 500 error on the 64-bit machine. I told my boss that, and he figured that since the other admin had set up spacewalk .1 on a 32-bit system, we'd try that. So, being in a VMware environment, we built a 32-bit CentOS system.
> I
>  a) installed Oracle, followed all the directions,
>  b) turned selinux permissive
>  c) installed spacewalk
>  d) FIXED IT'S BROKEN INSTALL of RHN, by
>        chgrp apache /etc/rhn/rhn.conf
>        chmod g+r /etc/rhn/rhn.conf
>  e) got to the website,
>  d) created an activation key
>  f) created the user rhnpush
> and tried to go to channels->manage.
>
> Apache 500 error. Guess what error shows up in /var/log/httpd/error_log?
> [Wed Feb 04 14:31:17 2009] [error] Execution of /var/www/html/network/software/channels/manage/index.pxt failed at Wed Feb  4 14:31:17 2009: user_role_acl_test called with no $pxt->user authenticated at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/RHN/Access.pm line 60.
>
> EXACTLY the same as on the 64-bit version.
>
> If it was up to me, I'd say spacewalk that this is POINT-4, and NOT ready for production, and recommend we look elsewhere.
>
> However, he still wants this up, so I'll ask again: what's wrong?
>
> Has anyone installed spacewalk .4, from scratch, on CentOS 5.2, after the middle of last week?
>
> Oh, btw, does it want sendmail running as a daemon?
>
> And is /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/rhn of any importance, since tomcat ignores it, being inside the host appBase?
>
>      mark, the unbelievably frustrated
>
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