[Spacewalk-list] question about install/upgrade packages not being picked up by the guest

Michiel van Es michiele at info.nl
Mon May 25 15:38:57 UTC 2009


Hi David,



David Nutter wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 04:53:15PM +0200, Michiel van Es wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We succesfully subsribed some CentOS 4 and 5 clients to our Spacewalk
>> server (running CentOS 5 32 bit).
>> We noticed that some of the guests don't automatically pickup the
>> Install or Upgrade schedules.
>> We also use the Jabber/OSAD setup so that we can push the rhn_check -vv
>> requests emediatly.
>>
>> The guests only use the red hat network plugin and only spacewalk as yum
>> repo.
>>
>> A rhn_check -vv works. but pushed through Spacewalk/OSAD/Jabber does not.
>>
>> How can I best troubleshoot this issue?
> 
> It sounds like osad is not working for some reason. One way to
> debug this is to start OSAD on the client as follows:
> 
>    osad -N -vv 
> 
> You should see plenty of information being printed out about
> connections being made to the jabber server and so forth. Then, when
> you schedule an action (obviously a ping is good for testing) you will
> see this in OSAD's debugging output.

I get the following errors in the terminal/output:

2009-05-25 17:36:56 osad_client._check_signature: Signatures do not
match dc416261e4be30bc8a3d80324aef0d4b01c5004c
97f5bd07c1b231a92177d287dd7387fc04879ffa
2009-05-25 17:36:56 jabber_lib._check_signature_from_message:
Mismatching signatures
2009-05-25 17:37:05 osad_client._check_signature: Signatures do not
match 6278aa80fb59b987cedd37d0ada9f913025d6b17
ca84d7c50c668fc7692f9ce3e99bfa76c9a64e88
2009-05-25 17:37:05 jabber_lib._check_signature_from_message:
Mismatching signatures
2009-05-25 17:37:14 osad_client._check_signature: Signatures do not
match 0a20723b90b5765a0ac101f0881627de484b9c8e
c454769335bee336c363432ed996aa309ad45876
2009-05-25 17:37:14 jabber_lib._check_signature_from_message:
Mismatching signatures
2009-05-25 17:37:23 osad_client._check_signature: Signatures do not
match 2cfc0f898442abf5bf91f8e55d17d930186d4aee
b78437775e3a1666606c21bfb8381f601eb100f5
2009-05-25 17:37:23 jabber_lib._check_signature_from_message:
Mismatching signatures
2009-05-25 17:37:29 osad_client._check_signature: Signatures do not
match f1b0311ebfc49b973f6ea5f68a74f1b6f905dd2b
b05d7d6be69b9578d656d7e663fff89c65893c17
2009-05-25 17:37:29 jabber_lib._check_signature_from_message:
Mismatching signatures
....
and keeps going

What could be wrong and how can I fix this?

> 
> Potential problems include:
> 
> 1) incorrect SSL certs shared between the client and server
> 2) jabber daemon on the server inaccessible to the client due to
>    firewall
> 3) Trying to run jabberd 2.2 with spacewalk 0.5 - uninstall this and
>    use jabberd 2.0
> 4) ISTR having to fiddle with my jabberd configuration to get osad
>    working when I set this up, so turning up the jabberd logging on
>    the spacewalk server may help in turning up problems. Unfortunately
>    this was some time ago so I cannot remember the details
>    exactly. 
> 
> Finally, here's a posting I made to this list regarding OSAD configuration:
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/spacewalk-list@redhat.com/msg00584.html
> 
> The chap I was replying to then put some of that information on the
> wiki, I think on this page:
> 
> https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/OSADSetup

I will read those information there to.

> 
> Regards,

Regards,

Michiel
> 

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