[Spacewalk-list] Ubuntu 12.10 activation and channels.

[William Palfreman]

It says nothing at all:

# cat /var/log/rhn/rhn_server_xmlrpc.log
cat: /var/log/rhn/rhn_server_xmlrpc.log: No such file or directory

On 28/05/2013, Justin Edmands <shockwavecs at gmail.com> wrote:
> yea ignore that response as I was quick to assume that Ubuntu would be
> classified by itself given fedora/centos classifications. Either way what
> does the server side say for /var/log/rhn/rhn_server_xmlrpc.log ?
>
>
> We have a few ubuntu systems. Maybe I should suck them in :)
>
>
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Justin Edmands
> <shockwavecs at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I don't see Ubuntu in the list of manageable systems. Not saying it
>> cannot
>> be done, though.
>>
>> http://spacewalk.redhat.com/faq.html#compare
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 3:01 PM, William Palfreman
>> <william at palfreman.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I am building an evaluation spacewalk system, so as to test out its
>>> suitability. We have here a mixture of RHEL6, Ubuntu and some SUSE and
>>> FreeBSD.
>>>
>>> At the moment I am focusing on the Ubuntu systems, as the RHEL ones
>>> already get this from the real RHN site, so an overview of the update
>>> state for managed systems is not so urgent.
>>>
>>> With a RHEL machines I can register with this activation key and get
>>> the (currently empty) channel I intend to use for ubuntu.  With an
>>> Ubuntu system I get nothing.  I don't see any channels available for
>>> it in the web interface, and rhn-channel -l says "This system is not
>>> associated with any channel" and with -L gives no output after asking
>>> for my username and password.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> # rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=http:/myhostname/XMLRPC
>>> --activationkey="2-xxx-ubuntu" --force
>>> Warning: unable to enable rhnsd with chkconfig
>>> # ps axuwww | grep rhnsd
>>> root      2412  0.0  0.0   7176   712 ?        Ss   May24   0:01
>>> /usr/sbin/rhnsd
>>> root      5888  0.0  0.0   9392   924 pts/0    S+   20:55   0:00 grep
>>> --color=auto rhnsd
>>> # rhn-channel -l
>>> This system is not associated with any channel
>>> # tail /var/log/up2date
>>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 654, in __dump
>>>     f(self, value, write)
>>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 658, in dump_nil
>>>     raise TypeError, "cannot marshal None unless allow_none is enabled"
>>> <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: cannot marshal None unless allow_none is
>>> enabled
>>>
>>> [Tue May 28 20:50:31 2013] up2date Warning: haldaemon or messagebus
>>> service not running. Cannot probe hardware and DMI information.
>>>
>>> [Tue May 28 20:55:35 2013] up2date Warning: haldaemon or messagebus
>>> service not running. Cannot probe hardware and DMI information.
>>>
>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Do I need the hal daemon running to subscribe to channels?
>>>
>>> (BTW, the above error I fixed earlirwith this patch in /usr/lib.  I
>>> read in the forum archives that it is an Ubuntu bug:
>>>
>>> --- python2.7/xmlrpclib.py      2013-05-28 20:44:38.000000000 +0200
>>> +++ new/xmlrpclib.py    2013-05-28 20:44:24.000000000 +0200
>>> @@ -654,8 +654,8 @@
>>>          f(self, value, write)
>>>
>>>      def dump_nil (self, value, write):
>>> -        if not self.allow_none:
>>> -            raise TypeError, "cannot marshal None unless allow_none is
>>> enabled"
>>> +#       if not self.allow_none:
>>> +#           raise TypeError, "cannot marshal None unless allow_none is
>>> enabled"
>>>          write("<value><nil/></value>")
>>>      dispatch[NoneType] = dump_nil
>>>
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