[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.7 - OpenVZ Debian containers

[Ben Myatt]

Hi,

I don’t believe this is the case as the containers only have 1 IP address and the newer ones being on Debian 9, the ifconfig setup should be the latest. 

I will double check though.

Kind Regards
Ben Myatt

> On 15 Feb 2018, at 18:18, Robert Paschedag <robert.paschedag at web.de> wrote:
> 
> 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