[Spacewalk-list] osad/jabber - Invalid password errors

[Daryl Rose]

I have some additional information that I think that I should share.


Because of specific issues experienced with SW, I used to completely remove jabberd database and log files.  I used to stop SW, cd to /var/lib/jabberd/db and remove the entire contents then restart SW.  But, I started experience problems with OSAD not picking up packages, and after so research, I learned that the way that I used to do things was not a good idea.


I think that it was a posting here that told me by removing at database files and the authreg.db it was causing the clients from losing connection with the SW server.  In the SW documentation, I learned that its better to delete only the logs that are not required.  These are the steps that I now use:


/usr/bin/db_checkpoint -1 -h /var/lib/jabberd/db/ ## mark logs for deletion
/usr/bin/db_archive -d -h /var/lib/jabberd/db/  ## delete logs
/usr/sbin/spacewalk-service restart  ## stop/start spacewalk


I have this setup in a crontab that runs on a daily schedule.  I set this up about two months ago.


I'm not sure when the invalid password issue started.  But it was some point after implementing these steps that the invalid password issue started.  Is there a password





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From: Robert Paschedag <robert.paschedag at web.de>
Sent: Tuesday, August 2, 2016 11:47 PM
To: Daryl Rose
Cc: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] osad/jabber - Invalid password errors

Hi Daryl,

the password fire jabber is stored in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/osad.auth, if I remember right.

The other thing is not enough permissions to delete the PID file.

Are you running osad as a non-root user?

Regards
Robert
Am 02.08.2016 16:24 schrieb Daryl Rose <darylrose at outlook.com>:
>
> OSAD has not been working, and I finally had a moment to look into it.  The osa-dispatcher.log has the following error:
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> 2016/08/02 08:38:25 -05:00 25556 0.0.0.0: osad/jabber_lib.setup_connection('Connected to jabber server', '<spacewalk-server.domain.com>')
> 2016/08/02 08:38:25 -05:00 25556 0.0.0.0: osad/jabber_lib.register('ERROR', 'Invalid password')
>
> What password would be invalid?  I am using a customized certificate, and its still valid for another two years. I can register servers just fine.  I can use rhn_check to retrieve updates, so I'm sure that the certificate is fine.
>
>
> There is another error that I see:
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> 2016/08/01 09:36:22 -05:00 1552 0.0.0.0: osad/jabber_lib.main('ERROR', 'Traceback (most recent call last):\n  File "/usr/share/rhn/osad/jabber_lib.py", line 119, in main\n    c = self.setup_connection(no_fork=no_fork)\n  File "/usr/share/rhn/osad/jabber_lib.py", line 283, in setup_connection\n    self.push_to_background()\n  File "/usr/share/rhn/osad/jabber_lib.py", line 213, in push_to_background\n    os.unlink(pid_file)\nOSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: \'/var/run/osa-dispatcher.pid\'\n')
>
> Anyone have any suggestions?
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> Thank you
>
> Daryl
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>
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