[Spacewalk-list] Necessity of Mail Server Running on Spacewalk Server?

[Wojtak, Greg (Superfly)]

On 2012-01-19 9:56 AM, "Jan Pazdziora" <jpazdziora at redhat.com> wrote:

>On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 02:39:28PM +0000, Wojtak, Greg (Superfly) wrote:
>> I ran into an issue yesterday that had me stumped for quite a while.  I
>>provisioned a new host and was trying to run rhn-profile-sync
>>afterwards.  The software profile update went through fine but the
>>hardware profile sync kept failing with a 500 error.  I looked in the
>>httpd logs on the spacewalk server and spent about a half hour
>>deciphering the traceback only to realize the traceback was being
>>generated when doing a mail call.  It turns out that postfix on my
>>spacewalk server had stopped (I think I did that intentionally and then
>>forgot to start it up).
>> 
>> I guess I just wanted to find out, should a hardware sync really rely
>>on mail being available?  It's probably trivial, but if a traceback/500
>>response is not intended I could see that as something that could really
>>trip someone up.
>> 
>
>We could only know if you showed us the traceback.
>
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>Jan Pazdziora
>Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
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I can do that.  On the client I get:

# rhn-profile-sync
Updating package profile...
Updating hardware profile...
XMLRPC ProtocolError: <ProtocolError for spacewalk /XMLRPC: 500 Internal
Server Error>


On the spacewalk server, with the postfix service stopped, I get:
[Thu Jan 19 14:52:04 2012] [error] Exception Handler Information
[Thu Jan 19 14:52:04 2012] [error] Traceback (most recent call last):
[Thu Jan 19 14:52:04 2012] [error]   File
"/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/server/apacheRequest.py", line
123, in call_function
[Thu Jan 19 14:52:04 2012] [error]     response = apply(func, params)
[Thu Jan 19 14:52:04 2012] [error]   File
"/usr/share/rhn/server/handlers/xmlrpc/registration.py", line 991, in
refresh_hw_profile
[Thu Jan 19 14:52:04 2012] [error]     server.add_hardware(hardware)
[Thu Jan 19 14:52:04 2012] [error]   File
"/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/server/rhnServer/server_hardwar
e.py", line 663, in add_hardware
[Thu Jan 19 14:52:04 2012] [error]     new_dev = class_type(hardware)
[Thu Jan 19 14:52:04 2012] [error]   File
"/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/server/rhnServer/server_hardwar
e.py", line 377, in __init__
[Thu Jan 19 14:52:04 2012] [error]     Device.__init__(self,
"rhnServerNetwork", fields, dict, mapping)
[Thu Jan 19 14:52:04 2012] [error]   File
"/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/server/rhnServer/server_hardwar
e.py", line 293, in __init__
[Thu Jan 19 14:52:04 2012] [error]     Traceback(mail=1)
[Thu Jan 19 14:52:04 2012] [error]   File
"/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/common/rhnTB.py", line 183, in
Traceback
[Thu Jan 19 14:52:04 2012] [error]     ret = rhnMail.send(headers,
outstring)
[Thu Jan 19 14:52:04 2012] [error]   File
"/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/common/rhnMail.py", line 56,
in send
[Thu Jan 19 14:52:04 2012] [error]     server = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
[Thu Jan 19 14:52:04 2012] [error]   File
"/usr/lib64/python2.6/smtplib.py", line 239, in __init__
[Thu Jan 19 14:52:04 2012] [error]     (code, msg) = self.connect(host,
port)
[Thu Jan 19 14:52:04 2012] [error]   File
"/usr/lib64/python2.6/smtplib.py", line 295, in connect
[Thu Jan 19 14:52:04 2012] [error]     self.sock = self._get_socket(host,
port, self.timeout)
[Thu Jan 19 14:52:04 2012] [error]   File
"/usr/lib64/python2.6/smtplib.py", line 273, in _get_socket
[Thu Jan 19 14:52:04 2012] [error]     return
socket.create_connection((port, host), timeout)
[Thu Jan 19 14:52:04 2012] [error]   File
"/usr/lib64/python2.6/socket.py", line 567, in create_connection
[Thu Jan 19 14:52:04 2012] [error]     raise error, msg
[Thu Jan 19 14:52:04 2012] [error] error: [Errno 97] Address family not
supported by protocol



The last message is due to ipv6 being disabled on the spacewalk server.