[Spacewalk-list] Problem subscribing client to a channel

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 01:48:26PM -0500, Alex wrote:
> so I've set up a new channel with label vmware-tools-i386-rhel6. however,
> when trying to subscribe client to a channel, i'm getting
> the following message:
> 
> # spacewalk-channel --add -c vmware-tools-i386-rhel6 --user username
> --password password
> Error communicating with server. The message was:
> 
> Error Message:
>     Server already subscribed to 105
> Error Class Code: 38
> Error Class Info: The system is already subscribed to the specified channel.
> Explanation:
>      An error has occurred while processing your request. If this problem
>      persists please enter a bug report at bugzilla.redhat.com.
>      If you choose to submit the bug report, please be sure to include
>      details of what you were trying to do when this error occurred and
>      details on how to reproduce this problem.
> 
> even though in spacewalk GUI it shows that no clients are assigned to the
> channel.
> 
> what could be a problem here?

I assume that the channel 105 is some other base channel, and
vmware-tools-i386-rhel6 is a base channel. So the error message tells
you that you cannot add the vmware-tools-i386-rhel6 channel because
it's not a child channel of that channel 105.

-- 
Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat