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During spacewalk-setup --disconnected after database population,

* Setting up users and groups.
** GPG: Initializing GPG and importing key.
* Performing initial configuration.
* Activating Satellite.
** Loading Satellite Certificate.
** Verifying certificate locally.
** Activating Satellite.
There was a problem validating the satellite certificate: 1

Attached log shows addresses an Oracle problem. However, during installation the permissions for /etc are reset by perl-Satcon, In /var/log/rhn/rhn-installation.log, I see
        /etc/sysconfig/rhn-satellite-prep/etc -> /etc
It seems like Oracle probably couldn't read something from /etc which it felt needed to get the job done.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. #spacewalk-setup --disconnected
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
[root@vm905 ~]# spacewalk-setup --disconnected
* Loading answer file: /usr/share/spacewalk/setup/defaults.conf.
Only one database option available, assuming: oracle
* Setting up Oracle environment.
* Setting up database.
** Database: Setting up database connection.
DB User? spacewalk
DB Password?
DB SID? xe
DB hostname? localhost
DB port [1521]?
DB protocol [TCP]?
** Database: Testing database connection.
** Database: Populating database.
sh: dbhome: command not found
*** Progress:
#################################################################
* Setting up users and groups.
** GPG: Initializing GPG and importing key.
* Performing initial configuration.
* Activating Satellite.
** Loading Satellite Certificate.
** Verifying certificate locally.
** Activating Satellite.
There was a problem validating the satellite certificate: 1

Expected Results:  
Activate the satellite and continue installation

Here are the software components I've been using

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 (Tikanga) 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5

oracle-instantclient-basic-10.2.0.4-1
oracle-instantclient-devel-10.2.0.4-1
oracle-instantclient-jdbc-10.2.0.4-1
oracle-instantclient-sqlplus-10.2.0.4-1
oracle-lib-compat-10.2-13.el5.sw
oracle-xe-client-10.2.0.1-1.0
oracle-xe-univ-10.2.0.1-1.0
rhn-oracle-jdbc-1.0-20.el5.sw
rhn-oracle-jdbc-tomcat5-1.0-20.el5.sw
spacewalk-0.3.6-1.el5.sw
spacewalk-admin-0.3.3-1.el5.sw
spacewalk-backend-0.3.3-1.el5.sw
spacewalk-backend-app-0.3.3-1.el5.sw
spacewalk-backend-applet-0.3.3-1.el5.sw
spacewalk-backend-config-files-0.3.3-1.el5.sw
spacewalk-backend-config-files-common-0.3.3-1.el5.sw
spacewalk-backend-config-files-tool-0.3.3-1.el5.sw
spacewalk-backend-package-push-server-0.3.3-1.el5.sw
spacewalk-backend-server-0.3.3-1.el5.sw
spacewalk-backend-sql-0.3.3-1.el5.sw
spacewalk-backend-tools-0.3.3-1.el5.sw
spacewalk-backend-xml-export-libs-0.3.3-1.el5.sw
spacewalk-backend-xmlrpc-0.3.3-1.el5.sw
spacewalk-backend-xp-0.3.3-1.el5.sw
spacewalk-base-0.3.7-1.el5.sw
spacewalk-branding-0.1.6-1.el5.sw
spacewalk-certs-tools-0.2.3-1.el5.sw
spacewalk-config-0.3.3-1.el5.sw
spacewalk-cypress-0.3.7-1.el5.sw
spacewalk-dobby-0.3.7-1.el5.sw
spacewalk-grail-0.3.7-1.el5.sw
spacewalk-html-0.3.7-1.el5.sw
spacewalk-java-0.3.8-1.el5.sw
spacewalk-java-config-0.3.8-1.el5.sw
spacewalk-java-lib-0.3.8-1.el5.sw
spacewalk-moon-0.3.7-1.el5.sw
spacewalk-pxt-0.3.7-1.el5.sw
spacewalk-repo-0.3-1.el5.sw
spacewalk-schema-0.3.6-1.el5.sw
spacewalk-search-0.3.5-1.el5.sw
spacewalk-setup-0.3.7-1.el5.sw
spacewalk-sniglets-0.3.7-1.el5.sw
spacewalk-taskomatic-0.3.8-1.el5.sw