RE: RHN Registration Errors

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of inode0
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 10:55 AM
> To: Discussions about Red Hat Network (rhn.redhat.com)
> Subject: Re: [rhn-users] RHN Registration Errors
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Lamar Milligan
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I have read previous threads concerning yum errors and RHN
> problems.  I am
> > trying to register a RHEL 3 (redhat-release 3ES-13.9.5) system
> and a RHEL
> > 5.2 system.  When I try to register the systems with RHN, the
> process errors
> > at 60% complete.  The profile is created, but the hardware and
> package lists
> > are both empty.    Any pointers?
>
> Did the systems both get registered but have missing information on RHN?

Yes.  Both hardware and software profiles are empty.

>
> If so, with the RHEL3 box you can try running
>
> # up2date -p

I started the up2date -p command several minutes ago, and it has not
completed yet, but neither has it thrown an error (a good sign).

> # up2date --hardware
>
> and on the RHEL5 box
>
> # rhn-profile-sync
>

I ran rhn-profile-sync on the RHEL 5.2 box, and received the following
error:

[root@host1 ~]# rhn-profile-sync
Updating package profile...
An error has occurred:
Connection timed out on write
See /var/log/up2date for more information

[root@host1]# tail -100 /var/log/up2date
<snip>
[Tue Jun 10 12:55:04 2008] up2date updateLoginInfo() login info
[Tue Jun 10 12:55:04 2008] up2date logging into up2date server
[Tue Jun 10 12:55:06 2008] up2date successfully retrieved authentication
token from up2date server
[Tue Jun 10 12:55:06 2008] up2date Updating package profile
[Tue Jun 10 12:55:56 2008] up2date A socket error occurred: Timeout
Exception, attempt #1
[Tue Jun 10 12:56:52 2008] up2date A socket error occurred: Timeout
Exception, attempt #2
[Tue Jun 10 12:57:33 2008] up2date A socket error occurred: Timeout
Exception, attempt #3
[Tue Jun 10 12:58:34 2008] up2date A socket error occurred: Timeout
Exception, attempt #4
[Tue Jun 10 12:59:29 2008] up2date A socket error occurred: Timeout
Exception, attempt #5
[Tue Jun 10 12:59:29 2008] up2date Error communicating with server. The
message was:
Connection timed out on write
[Tue Jun 10 12:59:29 2008] up2date
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/rhn-profile-sync", line 54, in ?
    cli.run()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhncli.py", line 65, in run
    sys.exit(self.main() or 0)
  File "/usr/sbin/rhn-profile-sync", line 42, in main
    rhnPackageInfo.updatePackageProfile()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnPackageInfo.py", line 27, in
updatePackageProfile
    rpmUtils.getInstalledPackageList(getArch=1))
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnserver.py", line 50, in __call__
    return rpcServer.doCall(method, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 206, in doCall
    raise up2dateErrors.CommunicationError(e.args[0])
up2date_client.up2dateErrors.CommunicationError: Error communicating with
server. The message was:
Connection timed out on write

> to update the package profiles and hardware lists on RHN.
>
> John
>
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