[Spacewalk-list] Issue installing 2.7 on RHEL 7

[Eric Herget]

Instead of --clear-db, try using the --skip-db-install argument

Eric



On 01/04/2018 01:25 PM, Eric wrote:
> Following the install guid here:
> https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/wiki/HowToInstall
>
>
> When I get to the spacewalk-setup, it ends with "can't install DB".
> When I look in the error logs, it says that the schema already exists.
> I believe I had this issue a while back, maybe 2.4 on RHEL 6.  And I
> solved it by running spacewalk-setup --clear-db.
>
>
> When I run spacewalk-setup --clear-db now, it errors with embedded
> database not installed and then follows with a bunch of errors about the
> schema user password being wrong.
>
> The man page says that the --clear-db option implies skip the db
> install.  I certainly don't recall that being the case a few years back.
>
>
> So I believe that in order to get where I need to be......I need to
> clear out the old db info somehow, and get it to rerun the installer
> correctly.  I've been beating on this for 2 days.
>
> I just did a RHEL 6 install a couple of weeks ago, and it went without
> any issues, following the same install guide.
>
>
> Anybody have any ideas on how to get this install to proceed?
>
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ERIC HERGET
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER, SATELLITE ENGINEERING
Red Hat