[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.7 - OpenVZ Debian containers

[Robert Paschedag]

Am 15. Februar 2018 18:54:06 MEZ schrieb Ben Myatt <ben at myattzone.org.uk>:
>Hi,
>
>I am trying to register a Debian 9 client with spacewalk 2.7. The
>client is configured as a container on a CentOS 7 host, running openvz,
>virtuozzo kernel 2.6.32-042stab127.2. It has also been tested with a
>newer kernel version of 3.10.0-693.11.6.vz7.42.5.
>
>I can get CentOS containers registered but cannot get any Debian
>machines to register properly. 
>The error I get is :Error reading network interface information: <type
>'exceptions.IOError’>” and in the up2date log file it reads the
>following "[Mon Feb 12 12:55:30 2018] up2date Warning: haldaemon or
>messagebus service not running. Cannot probe hardware and DMI
>information.”
>This does actually register it with the server but I does not allow a
>base channel to be set.
>
>All Debian machines that aren’t containers are fine.
>
>Do you have any info on this?
>
>
>Kind Regards
>Ben Myatt
>
>
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Please check if you have old style ifconfig "aliases" defined (e.g. eth0:0). This causes that message. Had that also on several servers.

Robert