[Spacewalk-list] API packages.remove_package fails on Spacewalk 0.7

[Steve Meier]

Dear all,

I have to (rather outdated) Spacewalk Servers running Version 0.7.

I have created a Perl script that is cleaning up some development channels
and runs perfectly fine on Version 1.7 (with Postgres) but fails on the
two running 0.7 (on Oracle XE) with a null exception. Here are some logs:

Script Output:
Fault returned from XML RPC Server, fault code -1:
redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcFault: unhandled internal exception: null

rhn_web_api.log:
[2012-07-12 04:40:03,632] ERROR - REQUESTED FROM: *callerIp* CALL:
packages.remove_package(mysessionstring, 45645) CALLER: (admin) TIME:
0.073 seconds
redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcFault: unhandled internal exception: null
        at
com.redhat.rhn.frontend.xmlrpc.BaseHandler.invoke(BaseHandler.java:131)
        at
redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcDispatcher.dispatch(XmlRpcDispatcher.java:123)
        at
com.redhat.rhn.frontend.xmlrpc.RhnXmlRpcServer.execute(RhnXmlRpcServer.java:53)
        at
com.redhat.rhn.frontend.xmlrpc.XmlRpcServlet.doPost(XmlRpcServlet.java:162)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:710)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
        at
com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter.parsePage(PageFilter.java:142)
        at
com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter.doFilter(PageFilter.java:58)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
        at
com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.LocalizedEnvironmentFilter.doFilter(LocalizedEnvironmentFilter.java:67)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
        at
com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.EnvironmentFilter.doFilter(EnvironmentFilter.java:108)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
        at
com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.SessionFilter.doFilter(SessionFilter.java:55)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
        at
com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:97)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:210)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:172)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
        at
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108)
        at
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:151)
        at
org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler.invoke(JkCoyoteHandler.java:200)
        at
org.apache.jk.common.HandlerRequest.invoke(HandlerRequest.java:291)
        at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.invoke(ChannelSocket.java:775)
        at
org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.processConnection(ChannelSocket.java:704)
        at
org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket$SocketConnection.runIt(ChannelSocket.java:897)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:685)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)

Any pointers would be appreciated.

Kind regards,
  Steve Meier