[Spacewalk-list] Problems installing Spacewalk 1.8 on CentOS 6.3

[Jon Miller]

This may be a shot in the dark but having just gone through installing
Spacewalk 1.8 on a RHEL6.3 machine, I found I had to adjust the permissions
on the following files/directory:
chmod 755 /etc/rhn
chmod 644 /etc/rhn/rhn.conf
chmod 644 /etc/rhn/cluster.ini
chmod 644 /usr/share/rhn/config-defaults/rhn_web.conf

Check those permissions and try a "/usr/sbin/spacewalk-service restart".

-- Jon Miller


On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Paul Raines <raines at nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>wrote:

>
> We are trying to install Spacewalk 1.8 on a freshly installed CentOS 6.3 VM
> following the directions at
>
>   https://fedorahosted.org/**spacewalk/wiki/HowToInstall<https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToInstall>
>
> We first ran into lots of problems related to PostgreSQL.  We created a
> spacewalk user in Postgresql along with a spacewalkdb database.The
> spacewalk-setup would simply fail with "Could not populate database.".
> Finally figured out where postgresql was putting its log file and found
> in it the line
>
> ERROR:  permission denied for language c
>
> After googling that I figured out I had to do
>
>    ALTER ROLE spacewalk SUPERUSER;
>
> to get past that error.  After trying the setup again, it failed again with
>
> ERROR:  language "plpgsql" does not exist
>
> So then I did a
>
>    createlang "plpgsql" spacewalkdb
>
> to fix that.  Setup failed again because the database was half made and
> I had to rerun with the --clear-db flag.  At that point I got past all
> my Postgresql troubles.  But the above should really be added to the
> webpage
> in the "PostgreSQL Pre-Requisites" section.
>
> Anyway, the setup got to "Restarting services." and sat there thinking for
> a long, long time before finallying failing with:
>
> Tomcat failed to start properly or the installer ran out of tries.  Please
> check /var/log/tomcat*/catalina.out for errors.
>
> So in that file I find:
>
> SEVERE: Error deploying web application directory rhn
> java.lang.**IllegalStateException: ContainerBase.addChild: start:
> LifecycleException:  start: :  java.io.IOException: Failed to access
> resource /WEB-INF/lib/antlr.jar
>
> I am pretty much at a total loss to figure out this one.  One thing I can
> guess is that the 'antlr' spacewalk wants/expects to be installed is not
> installed because of what this 'yum list' results shows to me
>
> Installed Packages
> ant-antlr.x86_64                        1.7.1-13.el6
>  @anaconda-CentOS-201207061011.**x86_64/6.3
> antlr.x86_64                            2.7.7-6.5.el6
> @anaconda-CentOS-201207061011.**x86_64/6.3
> Available Packages
> ant-antlr.noarch                        1.7.1-7.jpp5  jpackage-generic
> antlr.noarch                            2.7.6-6.jpp5  jpackage-generic
> antlr-javadoc.noarch                    2.7.6-6.jpp5  jpackage-generic
> antlr-javadoc.x86_64                    2.7.7-6.5.el6 base
> antlr-jedit.noarch                      2.7.6-6.jpp5  jpackage-generic
> antlr-manual.noarch                     2.7.6-6.jpp5  jpackage-generic
> antlr-manual.x86_64                     2.7.7-6.5.el6 base
> antlr-repolib.noarch                    2.7.6-6.jpp5  jpackage-generic
> jakarta-commons-jelly-tags-**antlr.noarch 1.0-6.jpp5    jpackage-generic
> maven-plugin-antlr.noarch               1.1-7.jpp5    jpackage-generic
> mojo-maven2-plugin-antlr.**noarch         17-5.jpp5     jpackage-generic
>
> Looks like some newer version from the CentOS repo itself is installed
> rather than the one from the jpackage repo.
>
> Any suggestions on what really is wrong and how to fix it?
>
>
>
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