[Spacewalk-list] RHN Traceback emails from Spacewalk server after client upgrade

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:18:43AM +0100, faris at gmx.us wrote:
> Hi.
>  After client upgrade and subsequent reboot I started to receive RHN Traceback emails from server regarding upgraded clients with the following error:
> 
>  ===
>  While running 'get_server_capability': caught <class 'spacewalk.server.apacheRequest.UnknownXML'> : Invalid request received (method 'get_server_capability' doesn't have a class and function).
>  Exception Handler Information
>  Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/server/apacheRequest.py", line 120, in call_function
> func = self.method_ref(method)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/server/apacheRequest.py", line 422, in method_ref
> classname, funcname = string.split(method, '.', 1)
>  UnknownXML: Invalid request received (method 'get_server_capability' doesn't have a class and function).
>  ===
>  What does it mean exactly and how to correct it?

What is in the Apache access and error logs, what client is that
exactly? What server and client versions are there?

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Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat