[Spacewalk-list] Sles Patchlvl 4 Spacewalk-Service fail

[Bernd Helber]

Hi Fabian,

the SLES11 SP3 Packages will work  on SP4 too.
what we did to achieve the same goal was disabling the
Spacewalk Client Repo/channel on all Clients we wanted to upgrade.

That may solve your Problem to.

So what we did... to upgrade our SLES11 SP1 Systems

We created a Repo and synced the Packages from
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.2/SLE_11_SP3/x86_64/

We werent succesful with 2.3 Agent. After fiddling around  with the
2.3 Agent we removed all the 2.3 Packages installed the 2.2 Packages
After that everything worked well.

1st Step

zypper install zypper install rhn-client-tools zypp-plugin-spacewalk
rhnsd rhn-setup rhn-check yum

2nd Step

zypper up
sync
init 6

3rd step.
Activating the SP2 Repos int our Spacewalk Gui.
zypper
dup
sync
init 6

4th Step.
Activating the SP3 Repos int our Spacewalk Gui.
zyper dup.....
sync
init 6
5th Step Activating the Spacwalk Repos...


and so on...

That worked on all our Test and Production Systems.


Hope that helps.

Kind regards

Bernd Helber

Am 29.07.15 um 09:18 schrieb Bosch, Fabian (BITBW):
> Hi @ all
> 
> I recently upgraded SLES to newly released Patchlevel 4. The System
> has been registered an working unter Patchlevel 3 with Spacewalk
> v2.3. The Upgrade via Spacewalk/zypper worked fine, but after
> Dist-Upgrade spacewalk-service stopped working and is now skipped. 
> The only message I got was that I have to install
> spacewalk-backend-libs. No Information about the required Version –
> spacewalk-backend-libs needs python(abi)=2.7. Never heared neither
> have such a package.
> 
> Anyone has experience with SLES SP4 and Spacewalk? Are there
> additional packages needed providing python(abi) or are there
> client-tools for Patchlevel 4 in the tube?
> 
> Software installed: rhn-client-tools 2.3.16-3.1 Rhnsd 5.0.15-3.1 
> Rhnlib-2.5.75-2.1 Zypp-plugin-spacewalk-0.9.9-3.1
> 
> 
> Just for your Information: Why SLES ?? – It wasn’t my Choice ☺ And
> now I want to demonstrate that there is no need for SUSE Manager –
> a proprietary Patchmanagement based on Spacewalk.
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Fabian Bosch Referat 34 – Open Source
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