[tools] mrepo up2date registration problem...

[Dag Wieers]

On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Pienaar, Derek wrote:

> I have a centos 4.3 server that I am configuring as an mrepo server for
> the rest of
>
> my centos and rhel servers. At first I had trouble with the standard
> up2date package/tool that
>
> came with the stock centos 4.3 installation.
>
>
>
> I found more info online: I removed the "centos" up2date package, and
> install an up2date
>
> Package from an rhel distribution. (Same version.)
>
>
>
> I have also configured the proxy settings in up2date, but without luck.
> My problem is that
>
> when I run gensystemid as follows:
>
>
>
> gensystemid -u rhnuser -p rhnpassword -r 4ES -a i386
> /var/www/mrepo/rh4es-i386
>
>
>
> I get the following error:
>
>
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>
>   File "/usr/bin/gensystemid", line 244, in ?
>
>     main()
>
>   File "/usr/bin/gensystemid", line 210, in main
>
>     systemid = rpcServer.doCall(s.registration.new_user, op.rhnusername,
> op.rhnpassword)
>
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 236, in doCall
>
>     ret = apply(method, args, kwargs)
>
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/xmlrpclib.py", line 1029, in __call__
>
>     return self.__send(self.__name, args)
>
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 46, in
> _request1
>
>     ret = self._request(methodname, params)
>
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rhn/rpclib.py", line 319, in
> _request
>
>     request, verbose=self._verbose)
>
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rhn/transports.py", line 168,
> in request
>
>     headers, fd = req.send_http(host, handler)
>
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rhn/transports.py", line 694,
> in send_http
>
>     self._connection.connect()
>
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rhn/connections.py", line 244,
> in connect
>
>     response = HTTPConnection.getresponse(self)
>
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rhn/connections.py", line 143,
> in getresponse
>
>     response.begin()
>
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rhn/connections.py", line 217,
> in begin
>
>     HTTPResponse.begin(self)
>
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/httplib.py", line 273, in begin
>
>     version, status, reason = self._read_status()
>
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/httplib.py", line 237, in _read_status
>
>     raise BadStatusLine(line)
>
> httplib.BadStatusLine
>
> ##################################################################
>
>
>
> What is causing this? I have searched for info, but to no avail.

What happens if you try to go to the URL ?

	http://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC

Is it possible you should be using a proxy server or that it needs to be
socksified ?

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