[Spacewalk-list] osad does not pick up tasks...but ping is ok

Kitmitto, Nick nkitmitto at fetchback.com
Wed Jan 11 20:40:47 UTC 2012


Hello,

Change the debug level to 6 on he client and send us what it says after
you restart the osad service.

/etc/sysconfig/rhn/osad.conf
Replace:
debug_level = 0

With:
debug_level = 6

Then:

Service osad restart

Let us know the result.

-- 
Thank You,
Nick Kitmitto
Linux System Administrator
Nkitmitto at fetchback.com






On 1/11/12 1:25 PM, "uri van creveld" <uri.van.creveld at gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>I'm running a spacewalk 1.5 server on rhel 5.5, with about 10 rhel 5/6
>clients.
>The db is oracle xe, everything installed by the wiki instructions.
>For some reason it seems that package installations or remote commands
>are not executed until I run rhn_check or wait for rhnsd.
>This is very annoying. it worked for a short period of time but now it
>does not.
>I didn't find any errors in the log files.... osad.log says it is
>connected to server, and when i perform ping (from the gui) i see it
>in the logs, and it seems fine.
>
>I do get an error when osa-dispatcher starts up (when running
>spacewalk-service start) - it says it can't connect to jabberd. but
>after a few retries (or a 'service osa-dispatcher restart') the log
>says connection is ok.
>i searched the web and didn't find anything usefull... so here I am.
>please help...
>
>thanks
>
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