[Spacewalk-list] Issue installing 2.7 on RHEL 7

[Florin]

Hi Eric,

Yes, in fact I've managed to perform a clean install of Spacewalk 2.7 on 
a RHEL 7.3 system, but.... using an external postgresql [ 9.4 ]

...and using the existing DB from a previous 2.6 install.



On 4.1.2018 22:01, Eric wrote:
>
> And another update.  Bug from 2013 seems to be back.  Followed steps 
> in this bug report for creatlang, and install of db works.
>
> Old bug report: 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=903487
>
>
> So that issue solved........moving on.  Gets all the way through 
> install.....then bombs on setting up the cerificate store.  missing 
> rhnlib is the error.  The rhnlib rpm is installed.  Still working on 
> this one.
>
>
> This all begs the question........is 2.7 even remotely ready for RHEL 
> 7?  I have NEVER had this many issues setting up Spacewalk, one bug 
> after another.
>
>
> On 01/04/2018 01:24 PM, Eric wrote:
>>
>> I 've gotten a bit further.  I figured out how to clear out postgres 
>> and reinitialize......but it still dies when I run spacewalk-setup.
>>
>>
>> The last entry in the install db log now is:
>>
>>
>> Redirecting to /bin/systemctl stop postgresql.service
>>
>> Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start postgresql.service
>>
>> ^[[3;J^[[H^[[2Jcreatelang: language "plpgsql" is already installed in 
>> database "spaceschema"
>>
>> ^[[3;J^[[H^[[2J
>>
>>
>>
>> On 01/04/2018 11:25 AM, 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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