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

[Andre Dill]

Hi Mark,

I don't know if you have looked at this already but I had some weird behavior when running spacewalk on my VMware test server and it seemed related to time. See 
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1006427

I would recommend checking the virtual guest system time very regularly (at least once a minute) and setting it appropriately, 
also in my case (64bit Centos 5.2) I added the following to my kernel boot line:
notsc divider=10

Regards,

-- 
Andre Dill
Senior Systems Administrator
DataCash 

Tel (Direct): +27 (0)21 528 4618

DataCash (PTY) Ltd, No1 Waterview Park, Century City Boulevard,
Century City. 7446. Cape Town, South Africa.

Tel:  +27 (0)21 528 4500
Fax: +27 (0)21 528 4570

www.datacash.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of m.roth2006 at rcn.com
> Sent: 04 February 2009 22:49 PM
> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Why I want to give up on spacewalk
> 
> 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
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Spacewalk-list mailing list
> Spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list

DISCLAIMER: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential to DataCash Group plc and its group companies. It is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you have received this email in error, please forward it to info at datacash.com with the subject line "Received in Error". If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, disclose, copy, print, distribute or rely on this email or any transmitted files. DataCash Ltd is registered in England and Wales no. 3430157. DataCash Ltd is part of the DataCash Group plc. DataCash Group plc is registered in England and Wales no. 3168091. DataCash Ltd and DataCash Group plc registered address is Descartes House, 8 Gate Street, London, WC2A 3HP, United Kingdom. 

Save a tree...Please only print this page if essential