[Spacewalk-list] osa-dispatcher error + internal server error when creating a kickstart or updating an older one.

Mon May 7 12:58:36 UTC 2012

On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 10:07:09AM +0200, lee wrote:
> On 05/02/2012 03:57 PM, lee wrote:
> > On 05/02/2012 03:03 PM, lee wrote:
> >> Hi..
> >>
> >> My first error was due to a tomcat security update:
> >>
> >> [root at spacewalk spacewalk_scripts]# rpm -qa | grep tomcat
> >> apache-tomcat-apis-0.1-1.el6.noarch
> >> tomcat6-el-2.1-api-6.0.24-36.el6_2.noarch
> >> tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.27-7.jpp5.noarch
> >> tomcat6-servlet-2.5-api-6.0.24-36.el6_2.noarch
> >> tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.27-7.jpp5.noarch
> >> tomcat6-lib-6.0.24-36.el6_2.noarch
> >> tomcat6-jsp-2.1-api-6.0.24-36.el6_2.noarch
> >> tomcat6-6.0.24-36.el6_2.noarch
> >>
> >>
> >> There was also a cobbler update. But this was fixed by copying the *old*
> >> config over to the cobbler confs.
> >>
> >> For the tomcat errors, I redid the spacewalk-setup. This seems to have
> >> solved the issues of at least no being able to view systems and
> >> provisioning tabs. But now when I try to update or create kickstarts I
> >> get , "internal server errors".
> >>
> >> Starting osa-dispatcher: RHN 7503 2012/05/02 12:44:33 +02:00:
> >> ('Traceback (most recent call last):\n  File
> >> "/usr/share/rhn/osad/jabber_lib.py", line 252, in setup_connection\n   
> >> c = self._get_jabber_client(js)\n  File
> >> "/usr/share/rhn/osad/jabber_lib.py", line 309, in
> >> _get_jabber_client\n    c.connect()\n  File
> >> "/usr/share/rhn/osad/jabber_lib.py", line 567, in connect\n   
> >> jabber.Client.connect(self)\n  File
> >> "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/jabber/xmlstream.py", line 488, in
> >> connect\n    raise socket.error("Unable to connect to the host and port
> >> specified")\nerror: Unable to connect to the host and port specified\n',)
> >>                                                            [  OK  ]
> >>
> >> This is also what I see when I try to restart my spacewalk-service.
> >>
> >> osa-config in rhn.conf
> >>
> >> /etc/rhn
> >>
> >> # OSA configuration #
> >>
> >> server.jabber_server = spacewalk
> >> osa-dispatcher.jabber_server = spacewalk
> >>
> >> # set up SSL on the dispatcher
> >> osa-dispatcher.osa_ssl_cert = /var/www/html/pub/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm still going through logs, but I've no idea which logs is related to
> >> my issue, so going through all of them.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Lee
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> > Hi
> >
> > I've "found" a error from tomcat that I think might be the cause of my
> > "internal server" error:
> >
> >
> > from the catalina.out ( /var/log/tomcat6 ) I found this error:
> >
> > 2012-05-02 11:19:40,663 [TP-Processor8] WARN 
> > com.redhat.rhn.common.hibernate.EmptyVarcharInterceptor - Object
> > com.redhat.rhn.domain.user.legacy.PersonalInfo is setting empty string title
> > 2012-05-02 11:20:47,501 [TP-Processor3] WARN 
> > com.redhat.rhn.common.hibernate.EmptyVarcharInterceptor - Object
> > com.redhat.rhn.domain.user.legacy.PersonalInfo is setting empty string title
> > 2012-05-02 12:31:43,436 [TP-Processor3] WARN 
> > org.apache.struts.util.PropertyMessageResources -   Resource
> > org/apache/struts/action/ActionResources_en_US.properties Not Found.
> > 2012-05-02 12:31:43,437 [TP-Processor3] WARN 
> > org.apache.struts.util.PropertyMessageResources -   Resource
> > org/apache/struts/action/ActionResources_en.properties Not Found.
> > 2012-05-02 12:31:43,444 [TP-Processor3] WARN 
> > org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor - Unhandled Exception thrown:
> > class java.lang.ClassCastException
> > 2012-05-02 12:31:43,550 [TP-Processor3] ERROR
> > com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.SessionFilter - Error during
> > transaction. Rolling back
> > javax.servlet.ServletException: java.lang.ClassCastException:
> > java.lang.String cannot be cast to java.lang.Double
> >
> > Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast
> > to java.lang.Double
> >         at
> > org.cobbler.CobblerConnection.getVersion(CobblerConnection.java:174)
> >         at
> > com.redhat.rhn.manager.kickstart.cobbler.CobblerXMLRPCHelper.getCobblerVersion(CobblerXMLRPCHelper.java:123)
> >         at
> > com.redhat.rhn.manager.kickstart.KickstartFormatter.getFileData(KickstartFormatter.java:252)
> >         at
> > com.redhat.rhn.domain.kickstart.KickstartFactory.saveKickstartData(KickstartFactory.java:359)
> >         at
> > com.redhat.rhn.domain.kickstart.KickstartFactory.saveKickstartData(KickstartFactory.java:393)
> >         at
> > com.redhat.rhn.manager.kickstart.BaseKickstartCommand.store(BaseKickstartCommand.java:92)
> >         at
> > com.redhat.rhn.frontend.action.kickstart.BaseKickstartEditAction.execute(BaseKickstartEditAction.java:87)
> >         at
> > org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:425)
> >         ... 40 more
> >
> >
> >
> > Has anyone seen this issue?
> >
> > I'll post more info, if someone can give me more specifics a bit...
> > doing the , now traditional, google search...
> >
> >
> > Regards
> > Lee
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> Hi
> 
> 
> Does anyone here have *any* idea about this issue?
> 
> definitely a tomcat/cobbler/spacewalk issue.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-devel/2012-April/msg00065.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=817816

-- 
Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat