[Spacewalk-list] 404 error

[Pradeep Kilambi]

Steve Vargo wrote:
> Here is everything that is in the up2date log.
>
> [Tue Feb  3 14:52:11 2009] up2date
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/sbin/rhnreg_ks", line 267, in ?
>     cli.run()
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhncli.py", line 65, in run
>     sys.exit(self.main() or 0)
>   File "/usr/sbin/rhnreg_ks", line 88, in main
>     rhnreg.getCaps()
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnreg.py", line 324, in getCaps
>     s.capabilities.validate()
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnserver.py", line 154, in 
> __get_capabilities
>     self.registration.welcome_message()
>   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 263, in doCall
>     raise up2dateErrors.CommunicationError(e.errmsg)
> up2date_client.up2dateErrors.CommunicationError: Error communicating 
> with server. The message was:
> Not Found

This usually happens when your server is not accessible by the client. 
Few things to check,

* Is your server url right and accessible.

* make sure if iptables is running, its has holes for xmlrpc traffic to 
get in or if you don't care much disable it.

* Is apache is running successfully for the call to pass through the mod 
python layer

* tail your /var/log/httpd/access_log on the server when the rhnreg_ks 
is running and see if the traffic is atleast getting to the server.

Hope one of these might help. I'm guessing iptables is jus blocking your 
communication.

~ Prad


>
>
> One other thing I noticed is there is no cert Admin tab -> Spacewalk 
> configuration -> Certificate. Would this cause a client not to be able 
> to register? Is there a way to have spacewalk auto generate the cert?
>
> Thanks
> Steve
>
> > Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 19:14:31 -0800
> > From: mmccune at redhat.com
> > To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] 404 error
> >
> > Steve Vargo wrote:
> > > I have spacewalk 0.4 installed on RHEL 5.2 I am having 2 issues.
> > >
> > > 1) I am having problems getting servers (Both RHEL 4 and 5) register
> > > with the server. Here is the syntax of the command I am using to 
> attempt
> > > the registration.
> > >
> > > rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=https://spacewalk.company.com/XMLRPC
> > > --activationkey=9b96b0f4a6a16ec24aeecb9ad191ed90 --username=spacewalk
> > > --password=spacewalk
> > >
> > > The error I am getting is:
> > >
> > > An error has occurred:
> > > Not Found
> > > See /var/log/up2date for more information
> >
> > what do you see in /var/log/up2date? Any more detailed info you can
> > share with us?
> >
> > FYI, when you register with an --activationkey you don't need the
> > --username and --password flags.
> >
> >
> > >
> > > When I do a wget for the XMLRPC it is not there and when I do a 
> find for
> > > it on the spacewalk server this is all it finds:
> > >
> > > [root at spacewalk ~]# find / -name XMLRPC
> > > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/XMLRPC
> > > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Apache/XMLRPC
> > > /usr/share/doc/perl-SOAP-Lite-0.710.08/examples/XMLRPC
> >
> > XMLRPC is a dynamic python handler for your inbound RPC calls to
> > spacewalk, it isn't an actual file, FYI ...
> > >
> > > 2) When I am logged into the web console and I click on the 
> Overview tab
> > > and then click "Register Systems" I get a 404 File not fould error.
> > >
> > > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Steve
> > >
> > > 
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