[Spacewalk-list] Fixed my osad task pick up issue

[Wojtak, Greg]

Thank you SO much for finding this and posting it.  I was able to get one of my clients re-registered and it is accepting tasks.  I seem to be having some kind of troubles now with packages not installing, but I'll deal with that separately.  I'm going to get all of my clients re-registered first and then tackle the other issue that came up.

Thanks again!

From: Tarun Reddy <treddy at rallydev.com<mailto:treddy at rallydev.com>>
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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:00:46 -0500
To: "spacewalk-list at redhat.com<mailto:spacewalk-list at redhat.com>" <spacewalk-list at redhat.com<mailto:spacewalk-list at redhat.com>>
Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Fixed my osad task pick up issue

Been fighting this for a long time and thought I'd share just in case others who have been seeing this would like to try.

This bug (not filed by me) has a small patch at the end that turns off the roster functionality of the jabber server. Once I did that, I followed the following steps and have been happily getting osad functionality working on both 1.2 and 1.3 installs.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=662593

 1.  Apply modifications to my spacewalk's server /etc/jabberd/sm.xml file as described in the above bug. Basically this comments out all roster module references in that file.
 2.  On my spacewalk server:
/sbin/service jabberd stop ; /sbin/service osa-dispatcher stop ; rm -Rf /var/lib/jabberd/db/* ; /sbin/service jabberd start ; /sbin/service osa-dispatcher start
 3.  On all my clients:
/etc/init.d/osad stop; rm -f /etc/sysconfig/rhn/osad-auth.conf; /etc/init.d/osad start

That's it. All jobs are picked up immediately on both of my servers.

Hope this helps,
Tarun