Bug 1154037

Description of problem:

Installation of according to documentation with qpit does not end with a working installation. Syncing of repositories fails.
The current documentation does not enable somebody to get pulp installed working according to the documentation.


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

[root@centos65pulp ~]# rpm -qa | grep pulp
python-pulp-puppet-common-2.4.2-1.el6.noarch
mod_wsgi-3.4-1.pulp.el6.x86_64
pulp-rpm-plugins-2.4.2-1.el6.noarch
pulp-selinux-2.4.2-1.el6.noarch
python-pulp-client-lib-2.4.2-1.el6.noarch
pulp-rpm-admin-extensions-2.4.2-1.el6.noarch
python-isodate-0.5.0-4.pulp.el6.noarch
python-rhsm-1.8.0-2.pulp.el6.x86_64
python-pulp-rpm-common-2.4.2-1.el6.noarch
createrepo-0.9.9-21.2.pulp.el6.noarch
python-kombu-3.0.15-12.pulp.el6.noarch
pulp-server-2.4.2-1.el6.noarch
pulp-puppet-plugins-2.4.2-1.el6.noarch
python-pulp-bindings-2.4.2-1.el6.noarch
pulp-admin-client-2.4.2-1.el6.noarch
pulp-puppet-admin-extensions-2.4.2-1.el6.noarch
python-pulp-common-2.4.2-1.el6.noarch

How reproducible:
- Following the guideline on https://pulp-user-guide.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installation.html#server:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install virtual machine with CentOS 6.5 (minimal server)
2. Drop http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/pulp/pulp/rhel-pulp.repo in `/etc/yum.repos.d`
3.  `$ sudo rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm`
4.  `$ sudo yum clean all && sudo yum  makecache`
5.  `$ sudo yum install mongodb-server`
6.  `$ sudo service mongod start && sudo chkconfig mongod on`
8.  `$ sudo yum install qpid-cpp-server qpid-cpp-server-store`
9.  `$ sudo service qpidd start && sudo chkconfig qpidd on`
10. `$ sudo yum groupinstall pulp-server-qpid`
11. `$ sudo -u apache pulp-manage-db`
12. `$ sudo service httpd start && sudo chkconfig httpd on`
13. `$ sudo chkconfig pulp_workers on && sudo service pulp_workers start`
14. `$ sudo chkconfig pulp_celerybeat on && sudo service pulp_celerybeat start`
15. `$ sudo chkconfig pulp_resource_manager on && sudo service pulp_resource_manager start` 
16. `$ sudo yum groupinstall pulp-admin`
17. Updating `/etc/pulp/admin/admin.conf` with SSL=false and the correct hostname
18. Loging in with the admin client
  
  $ pulp-admin login -u admin -p

19. Creating a CentOS mirror repository:

  $ pulp-admin rpm repo create --repo-id centos65-x86_64 --serve-http true --serve-https true --feed http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.5/os/x86_64

20. Starting synchronization

  $ pulp-admin rpm repo sync run --repo-id centos65-x86_64


Actual results:

[root@centos65pulp ~]#  pulp-admin rpm repo sync run --repo-id centos65-x86_64
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
               Synchronizing Repository [centos65-x86_64]
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+

An internal error occurred on the Pulp server:

RequestException: POST request
on /pulp/api/v2/repositories/centos65-x86_64/actions/sync/ failed with 500 -
Unhandled Exception


Expected results:

either

a) a syncing repo
b) an update to the documentation leading to a working installation
c) a workaround.


Additional info:

* Related BUG: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=1141336
* Fix is according to IRC available in v2.5.1, but not in the upcoming v2.5