[Spacewalk-list] Why I want to give up on spacewalk

[Justin Sherrill]

m.roth2006 at rcn.com wrote:
> I have gotten *nowhere* with the 500 error on the 64-bit machine. I told my boss that, and he figured that since the other admin had set up spacewalk .1 on a 32-bit system, we'd try that. So, being in a VMware environment, we built a 32-bit CentOS system. 
> I 
>   a) installed Oracle, followed all the directions, 
>   b) turned selinux permissive
>   c) installed spacewalk
>   d) FIXED IT'S BROKEN INSTALL of RHN, by
>         chgrp apache /etc/rhn/rhn.conf
>         chmod g+r /etc/rhn/rhn.conf
>   e) got to the website, 
>   d) created an activation key
>   f) created the user rhnpush
> and tried to go to channels->manage.
> 
> Apache 500 error. Guess what error shows up in /var/log/httpd/error_log?
> [Wed Feb 04 14:31:17 2009] [error] Execution of /var/www/html/network/software/channels/manage/index.pxt failed at Wed Feb  4 14:31:17 2009: user_role_acl_test called with no $pxt->user authenticated at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/RHN/Access.pm line 60.
> 
> EXACTLY the same as on the 64-bit version.
> 
> If it was up to me, I'd say spacewalk that this is POINT-4, and NOT ready for production, and recommend we look elsewhere.
> 
> However, he still wants this up, so I'll ask again: what's wrong?
> 
> Has anyone installed spacewalk .4, from scratch, on CentOS 5.2, after the middle of last week?
> 
> Oh, btw, does it want sendmail running as a daemon?
> 
> And is /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/rhn of any importance, since tomcat ignores it, being inside the host appBase?
> 
>       mark, the unbelievably frustrated
> 
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Trying to think what might be different from others (and from what we're
seeing).  You did install 'oracle-xe-univ' instead of 'oracle-xe' right?

-Justin

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Justin Sherrill, RHCA          1801 Varisty Drive.
Software Engineer                Raleigh, NC 27603
Red Hat, Inc.