[Spacewalk-list] Cannot register clients in spacewalk

Jason Dobies jason.dobies at redhat.com
Mon May 4 15:20:30 UTC 2009


> [root at localhost ~]# rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=https://xx.xx.xx.xx/XMLRPC --username=username --password=password --activationkey=rhel-channel-key --force
> An error has occurred:
> Connection refused
> See /var/log/up2date for more information
> 
> 
> [root at localhost ~]# cat /var/log/up2date
> [Mon May  4 10:53:21 2009] up2date A socket error occurred: (111, 'Connection refused'), attempt #1
> [Mon May  4 10:53:26 2009] up2date A socket error occurred: (111, 'Connection refused'), attempt #2
> [Mon May  4 10:53:31 2009] up2date A socket error occurred: (111, 'Connection refused'), attempt #3
> [Mon May  4 10:53:36 2009] up2date A socket error occurred: (111, 'Connection refused'), attempt #4
> [Mon May  4 10:53:41 2009] up2date A socket error occurred: (111, 'Connection refused'), attempt #5
> [Mon May  4 10:53:41 2009] up2date Error communicating with server. The message was:
> Connection refused
> [Mon May  4 10:53:41 2009] up2date 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/sbin/rhnreg_ks", line 266, in ?
>     cli.run()
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhncli.py", line 65, in run
>     sys.exit(self.main() or 0)
>   File "/usr/sbin/rhnreg_ks", line 90, in main
>     rhnreg.getCaps()
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnreg.py", line 329, in getCaps
>     s.capabilities.validate()
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnserver.py", line 156, in __get_capabilities
>     self.registration.welcome_message()
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnserver.py", line 50, in __call__
>     return rpcServer.doCall(method, *args, **kwargs)
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 204, in doCall
>     raise up2dateErrors.CommunicationError(e.args[1])
> up2date_client.up2dateErrors.CommunicationError: Error communicating with server. The message was:
> Connection refused

Are you sure that the client can reach the server it's attempting to 
communicate with, either strictly as a network configuration or due to a 
firewall on the server? I know it sounds basic, but sometimes the 
simplest issues are overlooked.  :)

-- 
Jason Dobies
RHN Satellite / Spacewalk
RHCE# 805008743336126
Freenode: jdob @ #spacewalk #spacewalk-devel




More information about the Spacewalk-list mailing list