[Spacewalk-list] Problem with rhncfg after upgrading to Spacewalk 1.2

[Will Lovins]

This weekend I updated a spacewalk 1.0 installation to 1.2 and have run into
a few problems (such as the missing dependency on quartz-oracle) and where
the migrations died (http://spacewalk.pastebin.com/YAdZ0AUF - commented out
DROP INDEX rhn_package_path_idx - terrible, I know), but I got threw them
and spacewalk seems to be working properly except for the rhncfg tool.
Specifically, rhncfg-manager is no longer working.

When I attempt to use rhncfg-manager on a server that hasn't been updated to
the latest client, I get this:

rpm -q rhncfg-management rhncfg
rhncfg-management-5.9.19-1.el5
rhncfg-5.9.19-1.el5


touch /usr/src/foo
rhncfg-manager add -ctest 123 /usr/src/foo
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Password:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rhncfg-manager", line 46, in ?
    sys.exit(Main().main() or 0)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/config_common/rhn_main.py", line 187, in main
    handler.run()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/config_management/rhncfg_add.py", line 64, in run
    if not r.config_channel_exists(channel):
  File "/usr/share/rhn/config_management/rpc_repository.py", line 182, in
config_channel_exists
    return (config_channel in self.list_config_channels())
  File "/usr/share/rhn/config_management/rpc_repository.py", line 222, in
list_config_channels
    self.config_channels = self.rpc_call(
  File "/usr/share/rhn/config_common/repository.py", line 362, in rpc_call
    result = apply(method, params)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1096, in __call__
    return self.__send(self.__name, args)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/config_common/rpc_wrapper.py", line 226, in _request
    return self._call_function(rpclib.Server._request, (self, methodname,
params))
  File "/usr/share/rhn/config_common/rpc_wrapper.py", line 174, in
_call_function
    raise e #Don't raise the NoMoreServers error, raise the error that
triggered the failover.
xmlrpclib.Fault: <Fault 1: "While running
'config.management.list_config_channels': caught\nexceptions.TypeError :
descriptor 'get' requires a 'dict' object but received a 'str'\n">



When I upgrade to the latest client released client (5.9.33), I get this
error:

rhncfg-manager add -ctest 123 /usr/src/foo
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rhncfg-manager", line 46, in ?
    sys.exit(Main().main() or 0)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/config_common/rhn_main.py", line 67, in main
    if utils.startswith(arg, server_name_opt):
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'startswith'


Now, I do see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656895 which
mentions the bug, but I don't see a .35 package anywhere. I did try the
latest nightly package (5.9-37), but that just caused the original
" descriptor 'get' requires a 'dict' object but received a 'str' " error to
return.

Updates uploaded or made in the spacewalk web UI work properly. It seems
limited to a client-side (rhncfg-*.rpm) issue. Unfortunately, we rely on
scripts which use rhncfg-manager for pushing a few hundred updates per day,
so manually updating files in the interface isn't feasible. Any help that
anyone can provide to get this working (even if it is a manual change until
a proper package is available) would be greatly appreciated.

Spacewalk System:
Spacewalk 1.2
CentOS release 5.5 (Final)
Oracle DATABASE 11g RELEASE 11.2.0.1.0

Client System
CentOS release 5.5 (Final)
Spacewalk 1.2 client - fully updated
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