[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.2 Config Compare Problem

Fri Jul 18 13:42:19 UTC 2014

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Herr [mailto:sherr at redhat.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 9:34 AM
> To: patrick.hurrelmann at lobster.de; spacewalk-list at redhat.com; Trevor T Kates
> (Services - 6)
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.2 Config Compare Problem
> 
> On 07/18/2014 05:22 AM, Patrick Hurrelmann wrote:
> >
> > Hi Milan,
> >
> > spacewalk-java updated and the link to file comparison works again. But
> > still every file is shown as "Differences exist" on the event page (with
> > empty diff on files without any changes). Although only one file really
> > has differences. File comparison on configuration overview of this host
> > correctly shows:
> > "1 of 43 files on the system differed from the Spacewalk-Managed files."
> >
> > Regards
> > Patrick
> >
> 
> 
> This shall be fixed in rhncfg*-5.10.70-2, which is building now and will
> be released soon.
> 
> -Stephen

Once again, thanks! You guys rock.

I've encountered another issue related to config compare that involves an ISE
when using the SSM to do a diff of a config across several systems at once.
Below is the traceback I received:

The following exception occurred while executing this request:
POST /rhn/systems/ssm/config/DiffConfirmSubmit.do

Date:7/18/14 9:37:11 AM EDT
Headers:
  host: <removed>
  user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0
  accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
  accept-language: en-US,en;q=0.5
  accept-encoding: gzip, deflate
  referer: https:// <removed>/rhn/systems/ssm/config/DiffConfirm.do?feature=configfiles.diff
  cookie: JSESSIONID=F645FFA75F679C9E2CA097BF876706CE; DWRSESSIONID=3jgY1giBWOoEnjTycNOzgoNj6tk; pxt-session-cookie=417655xc02dc62049edf24e7b6529967beb7866db4c5ecdc182fe6a2df25ea4e8ed2670
  connection: keep-alive
  content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
  content-length: 161

Request:
Local Name = <removed>
Server Name = <removed>
Requested Session Id came from Cookie
Requested Session Valid = true
Session = org.apache.catalina.session.StandardSessionFacade at 49399c60[session=StandardSession[F645FFA75F679C9E2CA097BF876706CE]]
Protocol = https
Request Locale = en_US
Request Character Encoding = UTF-8
Attribute Names = rhnActiveLang, org.apache.struts.action.MESSAGE, javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.fmt.timeZone.request, session, javax.servlet.request.key_size, javax.servlet.request.cipher_suite, requestedUri, org.apache.struts.action.mapping.instance, org.apache.struts.action.MODULE, 

Form Variables:
  last_lower: 1
  lower: 1
  prev_filter_value: 
  first_lower: 1
  dispatch: Confirm File Comparison
  prev_lower: 1
  filter_string: 
  next_lower: 501
  csrf_token: -1416758724715775945

User Information:
User <removed>

Exception:
javax.servlet.ServletException: java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processException(RequestProcessor.java:520)
	at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:427)
	at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:228)
	at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.struts.RhnRequestProcessor.process(RhnRequestProcessor.java:102)
	at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1913)
	at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doPost(ActionServlet.java:462)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:637)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
	at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.AuthFilter.doFilter(AuthFilter.java:127)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
	at com.opensymphony.sitemesh.webapp.SiteMeshFilter.obtainContent(SiteMeshFilter.java:129)
	at com.opensymphony.sitemesh.webapp.SiteMeshFilter.doFilter(SiteMeshFilter.java:77)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
	at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.LocalizedEnvironmentFilter.doFilter(LocalizedEnvironmentFilter.java:67)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
	at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.EnvironmentFilter.doFilter(EnvironmentFilter.java:100)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
	at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.SessionFilter.doFilter(SessionFilter.java:57)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
	at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:97)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
	at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
	at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298)
	at org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler.invoke(JkCoyoteHandler.java:190)
	at org.apache.jk.common.HandlerRequest.invoke(HandlerRequest.java:291)
	at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.invoke(ChannelSocket.java:769)
	at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.processConnection(ChannelSocket.java:698)
	at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket$SocketConnection.runIt(ChannelSocket.java:891)
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:690)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:701)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
	at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.struts.ActionChainHelper.readActionChain(ActionChainHelper.java:68)
	at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.action.configuration.ssm.ConfigConfirmSubmitAction.confirm(ConfigConfirmSubmitAction.java:140)
	at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.action.configuration.ssm.ConfigConfirmSubmitAction.diff(ConfigConfirmSubmitAction.java:90)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:622)
	at org.apache.struts.actions.DispatchAction.dispatchMethod(DispatchAction.java:269)
	at org.apache.struts.actions.DispatchAction.execute(DispatchAction.java:170)
	at org.apache.struts.actions.LookupDispatchAction.execute(LookupDispatchAction.java:146)
	at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:425)
	... 40 more

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Trevor T. Kates

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