[Spacewalk-list] Running Spacewalk on RHEL 5 / CentOS 5

[Pierre Casenove]

Hello,
As spacewalk 2.1 is announced to be the latest version compatible with RHEL
5, I've upgraded to RHEL 6 my dev platform, using your guide.
First: it works!
One side note though:
When you install spacewalk it starts osa-dispatcher and jabber... which
create a record in the database with the login/password in table
rhnPushDispatcher
After that, we restore the dump of the old server... which overrides the
password value.

So osa-dispatcher can't start after the database restore.

What we have to do is:
I did the following to get it work (BZ 825356):

1. stop jabberd & osa-dispatcher, remove jabberd's database
2. log into your database and:

    delete from rhnPushDispatcher; commit;

3. start jabberd & osa-dispatcher again.


Pierre



2013-11-15 13:52 GMT+01:00 Milan Zazrivec <mzazrivec at redhat.com>:

> > Thanks a lot for this guide.
> > When is it planned to drop rhel 5 support?
>
> I'm not aware of any such plans right now really.
>
> -MZ
>
> > 2013/11/15 Milan Zazrivec <mzazrivec at redhat.com>
> >
> > > > On 25/03/13 19:37, Pierre Casenove wrote:
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > > To be perfectly clear: upgrading from el5 to el6 is possible, I
> just
> > > > > need some time to plan this.
> > > > > A page on the wiki would be useful : with my el5 backup, what
> exactly
> > >
> > > do
> > >
> > > > > I need to follow from the installation guide to get spacewalk up
> and
> > > > > running?
> > > > > What version of cobbler (2.0 ou cobbler-epel) should I install?
> > > > > Do I have to install spacewalk-setup-embedded-postgresql or do i
> just
> > > > > need to restore configuraiton files and the pg dump? Do I need to
> > > > > restore both postgres and spacewalk databases or only spacewalk
> one?
> > > > > In fact, a third page on the wiki, like HowToInstall and
> > > > > HowToUpgrade, but to address el5 to el6 upgrade.
> > > >
> > > > Quick reply, I think this thread high lights the need to try and
> > > > provide a document on our wiki as part of any release where we do
> drop
> > > > EL5.
> > >
> > > Long overdue, but here it comes:
> > >
> https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToUpgradeOperatingSystem
> > >
> > > instructions on how to upgrade the operating system under your
> Spacewalk.
> > >
> > > Also referenced from
> > >
> > >     https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/UserDocs
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > -Milan Zázrivec
> > >
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