[Spacewalk-list] Still having problems registering a client

[m.roth2006 at rcn.com]

My latest attempt:
I reinstalled all the rpm's on the client.
I edited the repos in /etc/yum.repos.d (I'll fix them later on the server). 
I imported all the GPG keys.

On the client, I deleted the system. I also added the server hostname to /etc/hosts, so I can reference by name. I also telneted from the client to the jabberd port with no problems. Neither box is running IPTABLES (well, they are, but accept is the policy).

I've tried starting osad on the client, but it just complains that it can't connect to the jabber server, and even -vvv -N tells me utterly nothing useful.

So I thought, maybe it's that I haven't registered yet. So again, I tried rhnreg_ks. Again, I got exactly the same error on the client (internal server error). On the server:
/var/log/rhn/rhn_server_xmlrpc.log:
2009/02/26 14:12:00 -05:00 27546 <IP address of client>: xmlrpc/registration.welcome_message('lang: None',)
2009/02/26 14:12:00 -05:00 27547 <IP address of client>: xmlrpc/registration.create_system("token = '<valid activation key>'", '5', 'x86_64-redhat-linux')
2009/02/26 14:12:00 -05:00 27547 <IP address of client>: rhnServer/server_token.process_token(1000010005, 'enterprise_entitled')
2009/02/26 14:12:00 -05:00 27547 <IP address of client>: rhnServer/server_token.token_channels('ERROR', 'Server has invalid release and token contains no base channels', 1000010005, [{'note': 'x86_64', 'usage_limit': None, 'user_id': 1, 'org_id': 1, 'server_id': None, 'token_desc': 'Spacewalk Management Entitled Servers', 'token_type': 'enterprise_entitled', 'token': '<valid activation key>', 'token_id': 1, 'deploy_configs': 'N', 'kickstart_session_id': None, 'is_base': 'Y'}])
2009/02/26 14:12:00 -05:00 27543 <IP address of client>: xmlrpc/registration.add_hw_profile(1000010005, 'items: 4')
2009/02/26 14:12:01 -05:00 27548 <IP address of client>: xmlrpc/registration.add_packages(1000010005, 'packages: 425')
2009/02/26 14:12:10 -05:00 27846 <IP address of client>: 
Above repeated four times.

The email traceback shows me only a lot of verbiage that comes down to "not connected to Oracle", and I get one for each failed try (that's five of 'em).

I also don't understand why "token contains no base channels", when I've give the activation key I created for a base channel.

Does *anyone* have a clue as to why I am unable to fully register my test system? After it fails, it shows up in the browser, but kernel is unknown, and there's no packages - obviously, after it couldn't add the 425 of them.

Clues for the poor?

      mark