[Spacewalk-list] Cannot register clients in spacewalk

Rob James rssjames at googlemail.com
Mon May 4 21:17:08 UTC 2009


OK, you need to work out why you can't connect to your spacewalk
server using the DNS name from your client. I assume going to the DNS
name in a web browser doesn't work either? You could take a look at
the logs on the spacewalk server to see whether anything is getting
through.

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Gomes, Rich
<Rich.Gomes at wearguard-crest.com> wrote:
> I switched to the hostname and now receive time outs:
>
> [Mon May  4 13:00:51 2009] up2date A socket error occurred: timed out, attempt #1
>
> Here are the relevant bits from the up2date file on the client:
>
>
> hostedWhitelist[comment]=RHN Hosted URL's
> hostedWhitelist=
>
> serverURL[comment]=Remote server URL
> serverURL=https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC
>
> disallowConfChanges[comment]=Config options that can not be overwritten by a config update action
> disallowConfChanges=noReboot;sslCACert;useNoSSLForPackages;noSSLServerURL;serverURL;disallowConfChanges;
>
> sslCACert[comment]=The CA cert used to verify the ssl server
> sslCACert=/usr/share/rhn/RHNS-CA-CERT
>
>
> Rich
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rob James
> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 12:13 PM
> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Cannot register clients in spacewalk
>
> Firstly should you be connecting to the DNS name of your Spacewalk
> server instead of the IP address? This would depend on what your
> server certificate is made out to.
>
> Secondly, did you import the CA cert on the client? Check the
> certificate referenced by the value sslCACert in
> /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date on the client to make sure it's the correct
> one to validate the server certificate.
>
> On 5/4/09, Gomes, Rich <Rich.Gomes at wearguard-crest.com> wrote:
>> Ok, I fixed the error (had been trying to correct a cert error, which I am
>> now back to)
>>
>> Here's the original error, still cannot register clients:
>>
>> [root at stewie ~]# rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=https://10.29.126.250/XMLRPC
>> --username=spacewalkadmin --password=spacewalk
>> --activationkey=rhel-channel-key --force
>> An error has occurred:
>> The certificate is expired. Please ensure you have the correct certificate
>> and your system time is correct.
>> See /var/log/up2date for more information
>>
>>
>> Here is the date info on the spacewalk.crt :
>>
>> Validity
>>             Not Before: Apr 15 06:23:55 2009 GMT
>>             Not After : Apr 15 06:23:57 2036 GMT
>>
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>>
>>
>> Rich
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
>> [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jason Dobies
>> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 11:21 AM
>> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
>> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Cannot register clients in spacewalk
>>
>>> [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
>>
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