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

[Milan Zázrivec]

On Wednesday 05 March 2014 15:34:22 Pierre Casenove wrote:
> 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.

Yep, nice observation.

I updated the instructions based on your comments. Thank you for
trying / testing the procedure.

Regards
-Milan Zázrivec

> 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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