[Spacewalk-list] Unable to kickstart via spacewalk proxy

Stephen Herr sherr at redhat.com
Fri Dec 5 23:10:27 UTC 2014


Oh, never mind. I see in the first email that it is Spacewalk 2.2. Hmm. 
There may be a bug here.

If you 'rm -f /var/spool/rhn-proxy/list/*; rhn-proxy restart' on the 
proxy and try again does the problem go away?



On 12/05/2014 05:47 PM, Stephen Herr wrote:
> Is your Proxy 2.2 instance connected to a Spacewalk 2.2 server? It is
> not supported to have a Spacewalk version < Proxy version.
>
> -Stephen
>
> On 12/05/2014 12:09 PM, Michael Guidero wrote:
>> We have a similar issue, for Scientific Linux 7.  The package in
>> question is vim-common-7.4.160-1.el7.x86_64.rpmroo
>>
>> Log message:
>> 2014/12/04 18:18:20 -07:00 8897 10.30.20.192 <http://10.30.20.192>:
>> broker/rhnRepository.getPackagePath('ERROR', 'Package not in mapping:
>> vim-common-7.4.160-1.el7.x86_64.rpm')
>>
>> The source distro has a vim-common package named:
>> vim-common-7.4.160-1.el7:2.x86_64
>>
>> We also get a warning for a "not well-formed" comps.xml, a closer
>> inspection of the comps.xml file downloaded to the kickstarting system
>> indicates that it is lzma-compressed and would be valid if it was not
>> compressed.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 5:04 AM, Linder, Rolf
>> <Rolf.Linder at united-security-providers.ch
>> <mailto:Rolf.Linder at united-security-providers.ch>> wrote:
>>
>>     Dear spacewalker’s____
>>
>>     __ __
>>
>>     We’ve been using spacewalk for the couple of years, now using
>>     Spacewalk 2.2. Since our servers are growing we have to enhance our
>>     environment to use spacewalk proxy servers.____
>>
>>     __ __
>>
>>     While testing the proxy server, we setup a test spacewalk system
>>     kickstarted a child which we then configured according
>>     https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToInstallProxy as a proxy
>>     (so far we have two systems, spacewalk server and spacewalk
>> proxy).____
>>
>>     __ __
>>
>>     After this we kickstart a “real” child which works fine when using
>>     the spacewalk server (including re-provisioning via WebUI). If we
>>     want to re-provision the system using the proxy we end up with the
>>     following failure:____
>>
>>     __ __
>>
>>     (out of /var/log/rhn/rhn_proxy_broker.log from proxy)____
>>
>>     broker/rhnRepository.getPackagePath('ERROR', 'Package not in
>>     mapping: iputils-20071127-17.el6_4.2.x86_64.rpm') ____
>>
>>     __ __
>>
>>     the client stops with the message that the RPM could not be
>> opened. ____
>>
>>     http-access log show the GET request,  but squid-logs does not show
>>     any entry regarding this.____
>>
>>     __ __
>>
>>     Any help would be highly appreciated!____
>>
>>     __ __
>>
>>     Kind regards,____
>>
>>     Rolf ____
>>
>>     __ __
>>
>>
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>>
>> --
>>
>> Michael Guidero
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>>
>>
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