Re: can't get rhn_register (and therefore clients) working

Ryan -

        First, check to see if the time is synchronized between the
client and server systems.  Second, cut the networkRetries down to 1 in
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date (client side). Third, please add the contents 
of the log file on the server (/var/log/current.log) to what you've 
dropped on to the web; if possible, clear it out, bump up the debugging 
level and cut the retries to 1, and restart the server, then run  
rhn_register on the client and post the log file.

        You also need to ensure that the RHNS_CA_CERT file in
/etc/current on the server is the same as the RHNS_CA_CERT file in 
/usr/share/rhn on the client; if nothing else, try copying this file
over again.

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Ryan Speed wrote:

> I recently setup current on a development machine at work and got it running after a few minor problems (all to do with RHNS-CA-CERT).  I setup a few up2date clients to use my server and everything worked and continues to work no problem.
> 
> I figured it was time to slowly roll this out into production, and spent the better half of yesterday trying to get it to work.  I installed current exactly the way that I did on my development machine, built a brand new redhat 7.2 machine, configured it to use my new current server, attempted to run rhn_register and ran into problems.
> 
> I get the following error 5 times and see 0 activity in the current logfile.
> 
> A socket error occured: SSL_connect error, attempt #1-5
> 
> I have attempted everything from matching permissions exactly with my working current server, generating a new certificate, completely re-installing current from scratch.  I have created the following in hopes that someone can help me figure this one out.
> 
> 
> Directory listing on the client/server of RHNS-CA-CERT
> http://speedo.ca/current/certs.txt
> 
> My current.conf file
> http://speedo.ca/current/current.conf
> 
> the output of netstat -nlp on the server
> http://speedo.ca/current/netstat.txt
> 
> the output of ps -ewxf on the server
> http://speedo.ca/current/ps.txt
> 
> the rhn_register config file from my client
> http://speedo.ca/current/rhn_register.cfg
> 
> the output of strace rhn_register from my client (hopefully this can be of a little use)
> http://speedo.ca/current/strace.txt
> 
> the output of a tcpdump on the server (you can see traffic on port 8081)
> http://speedo.ca/current/tcpdump.txt
> 
> a list of the relevant packages on the server
> http://speedo.ca/current/servpkg.txt
> 
> a directory listing of the package database on the server
> http://speedo.ca/current/pkgdb.txt
> 
> If there's any other information that may be needed to figure this one out, let me know, I hope I have provided enough.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Ryan
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