[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk server HTTPS Error 400 - Bad Request

Fri Apr 21 17:15:14 UTC 2017

Thanks @radovan. It saved my night.

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 5:20 PM, Robin Beardsley <RBeardsley at nedelta.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestions Radovan.  I’ll give it a shot.
>
>
>
> *From:* spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] *On Behalf Of *Radovan Drazny
> *Sent:* Friday, April 21, 2017 9:53 AM
>
> *To:* spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk server HTTPS Error 400 - Bad
> Request
>
>
>
> Robin,
>
> this behavior is most likely caused by strict whitespace checking in
> httpd.
> Try adding "HttpProtocolOptions Unsafe" directive to httpd config on your
> SW
> server, and restart the httpd daemon. For more info see https://
> httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#httpprotocoloptions
>
> When an updated version of yum-rhn-plugin from Oracle will be available
> and
> installed on your clients, you can remove the directive from you httpd
> config.
>
> Problem is, I'm not sure this config option is available in the httpd
> version
> shipped with Oracle linux. If httpd fails during the restart, remove the
> "HttpProtocolOption".
>
> In such case, the easiest workaround is what Avi recommended - you just
> have
> to obtain previous versions of httpd, httpd-tools and mod_ssl rpms, and do
> a
> manual downgrade.
>
> Best regards
>
> --
> Radovan
>
> On Friday, April 21, 2017 2:49:16 PM CEST Robin Beardsley wrote:
> > Avi
> >
> > Thanks for the info. When I try and downgrade, I still get the same 404
> > error.
>
> > [root at oelsandbox ~]# yum downgrade httpd httpd-tools mod_ssl
> > Loaded plugins: langpacks, rhnplugin, versionlock
> > This system is receiving updates from Spacewalk server.
> >
> >
> > One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown),
> > and yum doesn't have enough cached data to continue. At this point the
> only
> > safe thing yum can do is fail. There are a few ways to work "fix" this:
> > 1. Contact the upstream for the repository and get them to fix the
> > problem.
>
> > 2. Reconfigure the baseurl/etc. for the repository, to point to a
> > working
> upstream. This is most often useful if you are using a newer
> > distribution release than is supported by the repository (and the
> packages
> > for the previous distribution release still work).
> > 3. Run the command with the repository temporarily disabled
> > yum --disablerepo=<repoid> ...
> >
> > 4. Disable the repository permanently, so yum won't use it by default.
> > Yum
> will then just ignore the repository until you permanently enable it
> > again or use --enablerepo for temporary usage:
> >
> > yum-config-manager --disable <repoid>
> > or
> > subscription-manager repos --disable=<repoid>
> >
> > 5. Configure the failing repository to be skipped, if it is
> > unavailable.
> Note that yum will try to contact the repo. when it runs most
> > commands, so will have to try and fail each time (and thus. yum will be
> be
> > much slower). If it is a very temporary problem though, this is often a
> > nice compromise:
> >
> > yum-config-manager --save
> > --setopt=<repoid>.skip_if_unavailable=true
>
> > failed to retrieve repodata/repomd.xml from oraclelinux7-x86_64
> > error was [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 400 - Bad Request
> >
> > My repolist:
> > [root at oelsandbox ~]# yum repolist
> > Loaded plugins: langpacks, rhnplugin, versionlock
> > This system is receiving updates from Spacewalk server.
> > repo id repo name
> > status
> oraclelinux7-x86_64 Oracle
> > Linux 7 (x86_64) 0
> > oraclelinux7-x86_64-addons Addons for Oracle Linux 7 (x86_64)
> > 0 oraclelinux7-x86_64-optional Optional
> > Packages for Oracle Linux 7 (x86_64) 0
> > oraclelinux7-x86_64-scl12 Software Collection Library release
> > 1.2 packages for Oracl 0 oraclelinux7-x86_64-spacewalk24-client
> Spacewalk
> > 2.4 Client for Oracle Linux 7 (x86_64) 0
> > oraclelinux7-x86_64-spacewalk24-server Spacewalk 2.4 Server for Oracle
> > Linux 7 (x86_64) 0 oraclelinux7-x86_64-uek-r3 Latest
> > Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 3 for Oracle 0 repolist: 0
> > [root at oelsandbox ~]#
> >
> > From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
> <spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com>] On Behalf Of Avi Miller
> Sent:
> > Thursday, April 20, 2017 4:09 PM
> > To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk server HTTPS Error 400 - Bad
> > Request
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > > On 21 Apr 2017, at 1:23 am, Robin Beardsley
> > > <RBeardsley at nedelta.com<mailto:RBeardsley at nedelta.com>> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > I’m hoping someone can help me. Today I tried to update my one of my
> > > clients from my Spacewalker server and got this error.
> >
> > You need to downgrade httpd on your Spacewalk server and wait for updated
> > yum-rhn-plugin packages from Oracle. We’re pushing them out ASAP. Once
> > we’ve released the new yum-rhn-plugin RPMs and you’ve upgraded all your
> > clients, you can upgrade httpd on your server again.
>
> > To downgrade, run:
> >
> > # yum downgrade httpd httpd-tools mod_ssl
> >
> > On your Spacewalk server. That should restore functionality.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Avi
> >
> > --
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> >
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