[Spacewalk-list] OSAD can't connect to host and port

[Robert Paschedag]

Am 15. Februar 2017 17:49:22 MEZ schrieb Konstantin Raskoshnyi <konrasko at gmail.com>:
>Can you do a telnet to port 5222 from client to spacewalk?
>On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 8:07 AM Daryl Rose <darylrose at outlook.com>
>wrote:
>
>> I just did a fresh install of RHEL 6.6.  I installed Spacewalk client
>2.6
>> onto the server.  All is good with the exception of OSAD.  Whenever I
>try
>> to start it using services, I get the following error:
>>
>>
>> *# service osad start*
>>
>> *Starting osad: 2017-02-15 09:41:40 rhn_log.log_error: Error
>connecting to
>> jabber server: Unable to connect to the host and port specified. See
>> https://access.redhat.com/solutions/327903
>> <https://access.redhat.com/solutions/327903> for more information. *
>>
>> *Error connecting to jabber server: Unable to connect to the host and
>port
>> specified. See https://access.redhat.com/solutions/327903
>> <https://access.redhat.com/solutions/327903> for more information. *
>>
>> *2017-02-15 09:41:40 rhn_log.log_error: Traceback (most recent call
>last):*
>>
>> *  File "/usr/share/rhn/osad/jabber_lib.py", line 266, in
>setup_connection*
>>
>> *    c = self._get_jabber_client(js)*
>>
>> *  File "/usr/share/rhn/osad/jabber_lib.py", line 338, in
>> _get_jabber_client*
>>
>> *    c.connect()*
>>
>> *  File "/usr/share/rhn/osad/jabber_lib.py", line 612, in connect*
>>
>> *    raise socket.error(e)*
>>
>> *error: Unable to connect to the host and port specified*
>>
>>
>> *Traceback (most recent call last):*
>>
>> *  File "/usr/share/rhn/osad/jabber_lib.py", line 266, in
>setup_connection*
>>
>> *    c = self._get_jabber_client(js)*
>>
>> *  File "/usr/share/rhn/osad/jabber_lib.py", line 338, in
>> _get_jabber_client*
>>
>> *    c.connect()*
>>
>> *  File "/usr/share/rhn/osad/jabber_lib.py", line 612, in connect*
>>
>> *    raise socket.error(e)*
>>
>> *error: Unable to connect to the host and port specified*
>>
>>
>> I'm not doing anything different with this install than I've been
>doing
>> with all of my other RHEL servers.  This is an inside network, no
>firewall
>> in between.  I am using fully qualified domain names.  I can telnet
>to port
>> 5222 on the spacewalk server, and I can start osad with -N -v -v -v
>-v and
>> get connected, so there is no issue with the port, or resolving the
>server
>> name.  Could this be something in the 2.6 client and RHEL version
>6.6?
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> Daryl
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Hi Daryl,

You get connected when you run with -v -v -v -v but not when you just start the service? This does not make sense to me.

Could you please send the part where the connect succeeds from the call with very verbose mode?

Regards
Robert