[Spacewalk-list] Still having problems registering a client

[m.roth2006 at rcn.com]

New day, same problems. Turned down spacewalk, osad-dispatcher, bounced oracle, restarted spacewalk, restarted osad-dispatcher (and I *still* want to know why the osad-dispatcher, if it's necessary, is not started when I start spacewalk with rhn-satellite).

This time, after deleting the system, when I attempted to register, I added -vvv and *not* --force to the rhnreg_ks command line, and got *something*:
sudo /usr/sbin/rhnreg_ks -vvv --serverUrl=http://<myspacewalkserver>/XMLRPC --activationkey=<valid activation key>
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
Introspect error: The name org.freedesktop.Hal was not provided by any .service files
Error reading hardware information: dbus_bindings.DBusException
Introspect error: The name org.freedesktop.Hal was not provided by any .service files
Error reading DMI information: dbus_bindings.DBusException
Introspect error: The name org.freedesktop.Hal was not provided by any .service files
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Providename rdonly mode=0x0
A protocol error occurred: Internal Server Error , attempt #1,
A protocol error occurred: Internal Server Error , attempt #2,
A protocol error occurred: Internal Server Error , attempt #3,
A protocol error occurred: Internal Server Error , attempt #4,
A protocol error occurred: Internal Server Error , attempt #5,
An error has occurred:
Internal Server Error
Error communicating with server. The message was:
Internal Server Error
See /var/log/up2date for more information
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))

Same web traceback - not connected to Oracle.

Interesting thought: when the registration ends, I see on the server that the parent channel is subscribed to, but not the child channels. Now, the way I have it set up is an empty parent channel, and base, updates, addons and extras (and client tools) under that, with packages. Does anyone know if that might be my problem - that there's nothing in the parent, only in the children?

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