[Spacewalk-list] Ubuntuu 12.10 activation and channels.

[Justin Edmands]

yea ignore that response as I was quick to assume that Ubuntu would be
classified by itself given fedora/centos classifications. Either way what
does the server side say for /var/log/rhn/rhn_server_xmlrpc.log ?


We have a few ubuntu systems. Maybe I should suck them in :)


On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Justin Edmands <shockwavecs at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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