[Spacewalk-list] 500 Internal Server Error - Delete kickstart distribution (was: Group Admin Page)

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 06:24:48PM +0000, Matt Moldvan wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> On a somewhat related note to the 500 errors discussed earlier, I'm also receiving a 500 Internal Server error when attempting to delete a kickstart distribution.  Here is a background on what I've done:
> 
>   - Setup a kickstart distribution
>   - Attempting to delete my only remaining channel to resync and reorganize the channels
>   - Can't delete because it's still associated with a kickstart distribution
>   - Attempt to delete distribution, however Java dumps nasty errors and WebUI shows a 500 Internal Server Error page
>      - (javax.servlet.ServletException: com.redhat.rhn.common.hibernate.HibernateRuntimeException: Executing query Channel.findByIdAndUserId with params {userId=1, cid=null} failed) seems to be the useful part
>   - Googling around I see that this problem is potentially fixed in the nightly releases?
>   - Modify my /etc/yum.repos.d/spacewalk.repo to change the baseurl from the 1.5 URL to "nightly"
>   - Attempt a yum-update, getting missing dependencies of "dojo", which doesn't seem to be available from the jpackage or other repos as configured in the installation steps
>   - No update ended up occurring, reset the spacewalk.repo file to 1.5
> 
> Any ideas?  Am I going about this completely wrong?

What OS is this? On my RHEL 5, dojo-1.6.1-1.el5 came from EPEL.

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Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat