[Spacewalk-list] question about install/upgrade packages not being picked up by the guest

Michiel van Es michiele at info.nl
Mon May 25 15:51:04 UTC 2009



Michiel van Es wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> 
> 
> David Nutter wrote:
>> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 04:53:15PM +0200, Michiel van Es wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We succesfully subsribed some CentOS 4 and 5 clients to our Spacewalk
>>> server (running CentOS 5 32 bit).
>>> We noticed that some of the guests don't automatically pickup the
>>> Install or Upgrade schedules.
>>> We also use the Jabber/OSAD setup so that we can push the rhn_check -vv
>>> requests emediatly.
>>>
>>> The guests only use the red hat network plugin and only spacewalk as yum
>>> repo.
>>>
>>> A rhn_check -vv works. but pushed through Spacewalk/OSAD/Jabber does not.
>>>
>>> How can I best troubleshoot this issue?
>> It sounds like osad is not working for some reason. One way to
>> debug this is to start OSAD on the client as follows:
>>
>>    osad -N -vv 
>>
>> You should see plenty of information being printed out about
>> connections being made to the jabber server and so forth. Then, when
>> you schedule an action (obviously a ping is good for testing) you will
>> see this in OSAD's debugging output.
> 
> I get the following errors in the terminal/output:
> 
<snip>
> and keeps going
> 
> What could be wrong and how can I fix this?

DOH!
http://markmail.org/message/nf2hjjlcykzu6uqk#query:osad_client._check_signature%3A%20Signatures%20do%20not%20match+page:1+mid:upgpa2j4sqnpw6z4+state:results

:)

> 
>> Potential problems include:
>>
>> 1) incorrect SSL certs shared between the client and server
>> 2) jabber daemon on the server inaccessible to the client due to
>>    firewall
>> 3) Trying to run jabberd 2.2 with spacewalk 0.5 - uninstall this and
>>    use jabberd 2.0
>> 4) ISTR having to fiddle with my jabberd configuration to get osad
>>    working when I set this up, so turning up the jabberd logging on
>>    the spacewalk server may help in turning up problems. Unfortunately
>>    this was some time ago so I cannot remember the details
>>    exactly. 
>>
>> Finally, here's a posting I made to this list regarding OSAD configuration:
>>
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/spacewalk-list@redhat.com/msg00584.html
>>
>> The chap I was replying to then put some of that information on the
>> wiki, I think on this page:
>>
>> https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/OSADSetup
> 
> I will read those information there to.
> 
>> Regards,
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Michiel
> 

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