[Spacewalk-list] Ubuntuu 12.10 activation and channels.

[Justin Edmands]

I don't see Ubuntu in the list of manageable systems. Not saying it cannot
be done, though.

http://spacewalk.redhat.com/faq.html#compare


On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 3:01 PM, William Palfreman <william at palfreman.com>wrote:

> I am building an evaluation spacewalk system, so as to test out its
> suitability. We have here a mixture of RHEL6, Ubuntu and some SUSE and
> FreeBSD.
>
> At the moment I am focusing on the Ubuntu systems, as the RHEL ones
> already get this from the real RHN site, so an overview of the update
> state for managed systems is not so urgent.
>
> With a RHEL machines I can register with this activation key and get
> the (currently empty) channel I intend to use for ubuntu.  With an
> Ubuntu system I get nothing.  I don't see any channels available for
> it in the web interface, and rhn-channel -l says "This system is not
> associated with any channel" and with -L gives no output after asking
> for my username and password.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> # rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=http:/myhostname/XMLRPC
> --activationkey="2-xxx-ubuntu" --force
> Warning: unable to enable rhnsd with chkconfig
> # ps axuwww | grep rhnsd
> root      2412  0.0  0.0   7176   712 ?        Ss   May24   0:01
> /usr/sbin/rhnsd
> root      5888  0.0  0.0   9392   924 pts/0    S+   20:55   0:00 grep
> --color=auto rhnsd
> # rhn-channel -l
> This system is not associated with any channel
> # tail /var/log/up2date
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 654, in __dump
>     f(self, value, write)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 658, in dump_nil
>     raise TypeError, "cannot marshal None unless allow_none is enabled"
> <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: cannot marshal None unless allow_none is
> enabled
>
> [Tue May 28 20:50:31 2013] up2date Warning: haldaemon or messagebus
> service not running. Cannot probe hardware and DMI information.
>
> [Tue May 28 20:55:35 2013] up2date Warning: haldaemon or messagebus
> service not running. Cannot probe hardware and DMI information.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Do I need the hal daemon running to subscribe to channels?
>
> (BTW, the above error I fixed earlirwith this patch in /usr/lib.  I
> read in the forum archives that it is an Ubuntu bug:
>
> --- python2.7/xmlrpclib.py      2013-05-28 20:44:38.000000000 +0200
> +++ new/xmlrpclib.py    2013-05-28 20:44:24.000000000 +0200
> @@ -654,8 +654,8 @@
>          f(self, value, write)
>
>      def dump_nil (self, value, write):
> -        if not self.allow_none:
> -            raise TypeError, "cannot marshal None unless allow_none is
> enabled"
> +#       if not self.allow_none:
> +#           raise TypeError, "cannot marshal None unless allow_none is
> enabled"
>          write("<value><nil/></value>")
>      dispatch[NoneType] = dump_nil
>
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