[Spacewalk-list] Still having problems registering a client

[John Hodrien]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, m.roth2006 at rcn.com wrote:

> I've just tried reregistering, after deleting the system, and putting selinux on the ->client<- system into permissive mode. On the server, it's disabled, and that's a straight 'Net install of CentOS 5.2.
>
> I've been looking at the logs, and one thing catches my eye: obviously, there's *some* connection to oracle, since the system *does* show up; however, the failure that shows up in /var/log/thn/rhn_server_xmlrpc.log is
> a) a registration welcome message
> b) an error that connection to Oracle is lost
> c) it puts the information for the system in, and that goes in,
>     demonstrably, since it shows up
> d) then it tries to enter the installed packages, and that's
>     where it fails, and fails for all five tries.

And you've *definitely* followed all the Oracle setup instructions?

jh

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