Bug 695890

Description of problem:

On Satellite 5.3 running on RHEL 4 AS (32-bit or 64-bit) and with the latest installed packages available from RHN, the taskomatic service fails to start. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

spacewalk-config-0.5.9-16.el4sat


How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Satellite 5.3 on RHEL 4.
2. Update to latest spacewalk* packages from RHN.
3. Restart rhn-satellite service.
  
Actual results:

Taskomatic fails to start. From /var/log/rhn/rhn_taskomatic_daemon.log:

[...]
ERROR  | wrapper  | 2011/04/12 11:32:29 | Startup failed: Timed out waiting for signal from JVM.
ERROR  | wrapper  | 2011/04/12 11:32:29 | JVM did not exit on request, terminated
FATAL  | wrapper  | 2011/04/12 11:32:29 | There were 5 failed launches in a row, each lasting less than 300 seconds.  Giving up.
FATAL  | wrapper  | 2011/04/12 11:32:29 |   There may be a configuration problem: please check the logs.
STATUS | wrapper  | 2011/04/12 11:32:29 | <-- Wrapper Stopped

This is because taskomatic receives an HTTP 404 error when requesting api.getVersion from /rpc/api. In /var/log/httpd/error_log:
[...]
[Tue Apr 12 11:32:19 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /var/www/html/rhn/rpc
[Tue Apr 12 11:32:23 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /var/www/html/rhn/rpc
[Tue Apr 12 11:32:27 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /var/www/html/rhn/rpc


Expected results:

Successful Taskomatic startup and URL redirection by Apache httpd.

Additional info:

This is an only when the Satellite is on RHEL 4. The changes introduced in https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0434.html to /etc/httpd/conf.d/zz-spacewalk-www.conf appear to be responsible. Backing out the changes and restarting httpd resolves the taskomatic startup issue.


# diff zz-spacewalk-www.conf.bad zz-spacewalk-www.conf.good
76,87d75
< # This rule handles incoming kickstart file requests from
< # machines actually performing a kickstart. This rule
< # processes the incoming URL and converts it into something
< # slightly more Struts friendly.
< RewriteRule ^/ks/cfg([-a-zA-Z0-9\._/\%\ ]*)$ /rhn/kickstart/DownloadFile.do?ksurl=$1
< RewriteRule ^/download/(.*)$ /rhn/common/DownloadFile.do?url=$1
< RewriteRule ^/rpc/api /rhn/rpc/api
< RewriteRule ^/ks/dist(.*)$ /rhn/common/DownloadFile.do?url=/ks/dist$1
< 
< # For rhn-custom-info
< RewriteRule ^/WEBRPC /rhn/rpc/api
< 
103a92,102
> # This rule handles incoming kickstart file requests from
> # machines actually performing a kickstart. This rule
> # processes the incoming URL and converts it into something
> # slightly more Struts friendly.
> RewriteRule ^/ks/cfg([-a-zA-Z0-9\._/\%\ ]*)$ /rhn/kickstart/DownloadFile.do?ksurl=$1 [P]
> RewriteRule ^/download/(.*)$ /rhn/common/DownloadFile.do?url=$1 [P]
> RewriteRule ^/rpc/api /rhn/rpc/api [P]
> RewriteRule ^/ks/dist(.*)$ /rhn/common/DownloadFile.do?url=/ks/dist$1 [P]
> 
> # For rhn-custom-info
> RewriteRule ^/WEBRPC /rhn/rpc/api [P]