[Spacewalk-list] osad does not pick up tasks...but ping is ok

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:25:59PM +0200, uri van creveld wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm running a spacewalk 1.5 server on rhel 5.5, with about 10 rhel 5/6 clients.
> The db is oracle xe, everything installed by the wiki instructions.
> For some reason it seems that package installations or remote commands
> are not executed until I run rhn_check or wait for rhnsd.
> This is very annoying. it worked for a short period of time but now it does not.
> I didn't find any errors in the log files.... osad.log says it is
> connected to server, and when i perform ping (from the gui) i see it
> in the logs, and it seems fine.
> 
> I do get an error when osa-dispatcher starts up (when running
> spacewalk-service start) - it says it can't connect to jabberd. but
> after a few retries (or a 'service osa-dispatcher restart') the log
> says connection is ok.
> i searched the web and didn't find anything usefull... so here I am.
> please help...

Can you upgrade your Spacewalk server to version 1.6?

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Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat