[Spacewalk-list] rhnreg_ks error during kickstart after update to 0.6 - smbios dbus_bindings.DBusException

[Marcus Moeller]

Dear Marco,

> after the update to Spacewalk 0.6, I' ve a serious problem with rhnreg_ks
> during kickstart. Before the update, during kickstart of Centos 5.3
> [i386-x86_64], I registered the workstations with bootstrap.sh script. The
> command inside the script is:
>
> /usr/sbin/rhnreg_ks --force --activationkey 1-centos5-i386
>
> After the update, when the script run this command, it receives an
> exception:
>
> An error has occurred:
> dbus_bindings.DBusException
> See /var/log/up2date for mare information
...
> I find a workaround by modify the line:
>
> "registration.smbios": {"version" : "1"}}
>
> to
>
> "registration.smbios": {"version" : "0"}}
>
> in /usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/capabilities.py. Anyboby knows a more
> elegant solution for this problem ???

I had the same issue on a Kickstarted Fedora 11 with
rhn-setup-0.6.2-1.fc11.noarch.rpm

The method described above worked for me, too.

Best Regards
Marcus