[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 1.5 Client, Python Error on Config Upload

[Miroslav Suchý]

On 07/28/2011 07:50 PM, Trevor T Kates wrote:
> [Thu Jul 28 13:25:02 2011] up2date 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/sbin/rhn_check", line 333, in __run_action
>     (status, message, data) = CheckCli.__do_call(method, params, kwargs)
>   File "/usr/sbin/rhn_check", line 326, in __do_call
>     retval = method(*params, **kwargs)
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/actions/configfiles.py", line 189, in upload
>     r = rpc_cli_repository.ClientRepository()
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/config_client/rpc_cli_repository.py", line 32, in __init__
>     repository.RPC_Repository.__init__(self, setup_network)
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/config_common/repository.py", line 223, in __init__
>     self.__server_url = self._local_config.get('server_url')
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/config_common/local_config.py", line 105, in get
>     return _get_config().get_option(var)
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/config_common/local_config.py", line 72, in get_option
>     ret = self.get(self.section, option, vars=self.overrides)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/ConfigParser.py", line 525, in get
>     return self._interpolate(section, option, value, d)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/ConfigParser.py", line 570, in _interpolate
>     raise InterpolationMissingOptionError(
> ConfigParser.InterpolationMissingOptionError: Bad value substitution:
> 	section: [rhncfg-client]
> 	option : server_url
> 	key    : server_name
> 	rawval : https://%(server_name)s%(server_handler)s
> 
> I have not made any modifications to the configuration files since updating
> this particular client to 1.5 and the previous value in the server_url option
> was %(proto)s://%(server_name)s%(server_handler)s. Do I need to modify the
> rhncfg-client.conf file to include the substitution for server_name?

Looks like bug to me. I'm looking at this right now.
In the mean time you can workaround it but putting in rhncfg-client.conf
server_name = hostname.of.your.spacewalk.com


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Miroslav Suchy
Red Hat Satellite Engineering