[Spacewalk-list] trouble with kickstart profiles

[Stuart Green]

Looks like it might be similar to this thread:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2012-May/msg00107.html


Stu

On 19/08/2013 16:20, Armstrong, Kenneth Lawrence wrote:
>
> Did some further troubleshooting, and it appears to be an 
> authentication issue.  I even had the guy who set the server up log in 
> with his admin account (the one he used during setup) and according to 
> the /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out file, we are having authentication 
> issues with it:
>
> 2013-08-19 11:15:03,697 [TP-Processor7] ERROR 
> com.redhat.rhn.manager.kickstart.cobbler.CobblerLoginCommand - 
> XmlRpcFault while logging in.  most likely user doesn't have permissions.
>
> redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcFault: cobbler.cexceptions.CX:'login failed (admin)'
>
> ...
>
> 2013-08-19 11:15:03,698 [TP-Processor7] WARN 
> org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor - Unhandled Exception 
> thrown: class 
> com.redhat.rhn.manager.kickstart.cobbler.NoCobblerTokenException
>
> 2013-08-19 11:15:03,698 [TP-Processor7] ERROR 
> com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.SessionFilter - Error during 
> transaction. Rolling back
>
> javax.servlet.ServletException: We had an error trying to login.
>
> ...
>
> Caused by:
>
> com.redhat.rhn.manager.kickstart.cobbler.NoCobblerTokenException: We 
> had an error trying to login.
>
> Caused by:
>
> redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcFault: cobbler.cexceptions.CX:'login failed (admin)'
>
> ...
>
> 2013-08-19 11:15:03,718 [TP-Processor7] ERROR 
> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/rhn].[action] 
> - Servlet.service() for servlet action threw exception
>
> redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcFault: cobbler.cexceptions.CX:'login failed (admin)'
>
> We have tried with three different accounts that have full admin 
> access to this system, all resulting in the same errors.
>
> I don't really know much about Tomcat, so where else could I look to 
> try and solve this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Kenny
>
> *From:* spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] *On Behalf Of *Armstrong, 
> Kenneth Lawrence
> *Sent:* Monday, August 19, 2013 10:17 AM
> *To:* spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> *Subject:* [Spacewalk-list] trouble with kickstart profiles
>
> Hello all,
>
> We have a Satellite (ver 5.4.1) server running on RHEL 5.9.  I was 
> attempting to create a Kickstart profile, when I ran into an issue.
>
> I was able to enter in the information, but when I clicked on 
> continue, I got the following:
>
> The server experienced a problem which prevented your request from 
> being filled out. It may not be possible to execute this action at 
> this time.
>
> I googled this and ran across something similar at 
> http://osdir.com/ml/spacewalk-list/2011-11/msg00034.html 
> <http://osdir.com/ml/spacewalk-list/2011-11/msg00034.html>, however 
> SELinux is in Permissive mode on this server (I inherited this system).
>
> I thought I would check the permissions on the files in 
> /var/lib/rhn/kickstarts/wizard/ and everything is in 644 mode, and 
> owned (both user and group) by either root or tomcat.  The directory 
> permission is set to 775, so that seems fine as well.
>
> Any thoughts on where I can go to troubleshoot further?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Kenny
>
>
>
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