[Spacewalk-list] Error during configuration Spacewalk server.

[Michael Mraka]

Ivan Pavlenko wrote:
% Hello ALL,
% 
% I've installed Spacewalk-1.4(PostgreSQL 8.4) on RHEL5.5 using this
% manual https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToInstall
...
% # spacewalk-setup --disconnected
% ** Database: Setting up database connection for PostgreSQL backend.
% Hostname (leave empty for local)?
% Database? spaceschema
% Username? admin
% Password?
% ** Database: Populating database.
...
% ** Activating Spacewalk.
% There was a problem validating the satellite certificate: 1
% only.
% 
% The log file (/var/log/rhn/rhn-installation.log) keeps next:
...
%   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/spacewalk/server/rhnSQL/__init__.py",
% line 104, in initDB
%     (password, dsn) = temp.split("@")
% ValueError: too many values to unpack
% 
% Apparently, I have a problem with SSL-certificate. How can I fix
% this? As far as I understood the system expects this file -
% /usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT, but I don't have one. How
% can I create it? Why the system didn't create it during installation
% process?

According to error message I guess there's no problem with SSL.
More likely your database password contain '@' char which causes the
error.

Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat