[Spacewalk-list] Mr. 500 here... more info

[m.roth2006 at rcn.com]

Ok, folks: it works. I did the completely clean, 'Net install of CentOS 5.2 (32-bit, if it makes any difference). Plain vanilla, server. I added LVM partitions for oracle and satellite, mounted 'em. 

Installed Oracle (and sqlplus works just find without tnsnames.ora in /etc, as long as ORACLE_HOME and LD_LIBRARY_PATH are set).

wget http://stahnma.fedorapeople.org/spacewalk-tools/5Server/i386/rhel-instnum-1.0.8-1.el5.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh rhel-instnum-1.0.8-1.el5.noarch.rpm

Had to install pyOpenSSL to install rhnlib
yum install pyOpenSSL
wget http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lrsmith/Spacewalk/rpms/rhnlib-2.2.5-1.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh rhnlib-2.2.5-1.noarch.rpm

Then I could successfully do yum install spacewalk. 
*THIS* time, when I ran spacewalk-setup --disconnected, it did *not* freeze, and completed successfully. Btw, I can't be positive - I unfortunately didn't take a note, but when it froze, previously, it did not get to installation complete; I think it froze after updateing d/b config; whether it was on setting up cobbler, or restarting services, but it was one or the other.

And I can get to manage channels. So, now my manager is having me reset up a production server. He doesn't want me to spend a lot of time on figuring out what broke it, but as time allows, I intend to lock down this server, following what they did, and if I can find what breaks it, I will post here.

Thanks to everyone - your help has been very much appreciated. Sorry if I got surly, but my manager wanted this running, so there was pressure to make it so.

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