[Spacewalk-list] Status of Solaris support

[Pierre Casenove]

Setting the channel architecture to "SPARC Solaris" instead of "SPARC"
and it could rhnpush the mpm generated from solaris.

but the other issues are still alive!


2012/6/22 Pierre Casenove <pcasenove at gmail.com>:
> Hello list,
> I wanted to test Solaris 10 Sparc client management from my spacewalk
> 1.7 server... and it is not very successful!
> 1) I've downloaded the packages and installed them without any
> problem. One note on the README file: libgcc is in /usr/sfw/lib, which
> has to be added to the ld library path
> 2) I've created a channel with "SPARC" architecture.
> 3) rhnreg_ks fails to register my client:
> rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=http://Server/XMLRPC --activationkey=1-solaris-10
> Doing checkNeedUpdate
> Updating cache...
> #####################################################################
> [100%]
> Updating cache...
> #####################################################################
> [100%]
> Updating cache...
> #####################################################################
> [100%]
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/usr/sbin/rhn_check", line 317, in ?
>    run_local_actions()
>  File "/opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/usr/sbin/rhn_check", line 77, in
> run_local_actions
>    (status, message, data) = run_action(method, params)
>  File "/opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/usr/sbin/rhn_check", line 137, in run_action
>    (status, message, data) = rhn.actions.do_call(method, params)
>  File "/opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhn/actions/__init__.py",
> line 18, in do_call
>    return apply(func, params)
>  File "/opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhn/actions/solarispkgs.py",
> line 189, in checkNeedUpdate
>    return refresh_list()
>  File "/opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhn/actions/solarispkgs.py",
> line 197, in refresh_list
>    exitdata = iface.run(command)
>  File "/opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/lib/python2.4/site-packages/smart/interfaces/up2date/interface.py",
> line 201, in run
>    rhnPackages.refreshPackages(pkgs)
>  File "/opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhn/client/rhnPackages.py",
> line 48, in refreshPackages
>    rhnReg.updatePackages(rhnAuth.getSystemId(), packageList)
>  File "/opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhn/client/rhnReg.py",
> line 386, in updatePackages
>    rpcServer.doCall(s.registration.update_packages, systemId, packageList)
>  File "/opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhn/client/rpcServer.py",
> line 189, in doCall
>    raise rhnErrors.CommunicationError(e.errmsg)
> rhn.client.rhnErrors.CommunicationError: Error communicating with
> server. The message was:
> Internal Server Error
>
> On server side, here are the logs:
> 2012/06/22 15:04:49 -00:00 8676 10.120.193.1:
> registration._normalize_packages('ERROR', 'architecture du package',
> 'sparc-solaris-patch')
> 2012/06/22 15:04:49 -00:00 8676 10.120.193.1:
> registration.update_packages(1000010006, 'packages: 1645')
>
> 4) i've uploaded a patch (119254-84.zip) on my spacewalk server and
> ran solaris2mpm:
> # solaris2mpm 119254-84.zip
> Opening archive, this may take a while
> Error creating mpm for /root/workdir/solaris/tmp/119254-84.zip:
> <rhnpush.archive.InvalidArchiveError instance at 0xda5e638>
>
> 5) I've ran solaris2mpm from my Solaris client... it worked!
> # solaris2mpm 119254-84.zip
> Opening archive, this may take a while
> Writing patch-solaris-119254-84-1.sparc-solaris-patch.mpm
>
> I then tried to rhnpush this package... it failed :'(
> rhnpush -c solaris-10-sparc patch-solaris-119254-84-1.sparc-solaris-patch.mpm
> Red Hat Network username: administrator
> Red Hat Network password:
>
> Error Message:
>    Package arch sparc-solaris-patch incompatible with channel solaris-10-sparc
> Error Class Code: 50
> Error Class Info: Invalid information uploaded to the server
>
>
> Any help on these issues?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> pierre