+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #468180 +++

Description of problem:
When you have some conflicting packages on machine  the installer will
fail. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
520

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install proxy 
2. deactivate (select remove packages)
4. Do not run rhn_check
3. install again using webui
  
Actual results:

D: Sending back response (1, 'Script failed', {'output': 'cnBtOiBubyBwYWNrYWdlcyBnaXZlbiBmb3IgZXJhc2UK\n', 'base64enc': 1, 'process_end': '2008-10-23 09:34:48', 'return_code': 256, 'process_start': '2008-10-23 09:34:38'})
D: do_call packages.checkNeedUpdate ('rhnsd=1',)


Expected results:
no error

More Info

If you try to activate the proxy again after the failing, it successfully completes.


Fails to install proxy
Run as: root:root
Timeout: 600 seconds

#!/bin/sh
rpm -e `for package in ConfigPusher-general eventReceivers httpd-suexec jabberd libapreq2 MessageQueue mod_perl NOCpulsePlugins NPalert np-config NPusers nslogs oracle_perl perl-Apache-Admin-Config perl-BerkeleyDB perl-BSD-Resource perl-Class-MethodMaker perl-Class-Singleton perl-Config-IniFiles perl-Crypt-DES perl-Crypt-GeneratePassword perl-DateTime perl-DateTime-Locale perl-DateTime-TimeZone perl-DBD-Oracle perl-Error perl-FreezeThaw perl-HTML-TableExtract perl-IO-Capture perl-IO-Socket-SSL perl-IO-stringy perl-libapreq2 perl-MailTools perl-MIME-tools perl-Net-SNMP perl-Net_SSLeay perl-Network-IPv4Addr perl-NOCpulse-CLAC perl-NOCpulse-Debug perl-NOCpulse-Gritch perl-NOCpulse-Object perl-NOCpulse-OracleDB perl-NOCpulse-PersistentConnection perl-NOCpulse-Probe perl-NOCpulse-ProcessPool perl-NOCpulse-Scheduler perl-NOCpulse-SetID perl-NOCpulse-Utils perl-Params-Validate perl-TimeDate perl-XML-Generator ProgAGoGo python-sgmlop rhn-base-minimal rhns rhns-certs-tools rhns-proxy-broker rhns-proxy-docs rhns-proxy-management rhns-proxy-monitoring rhns-proxy-package-manager rhns-proxy-redirect rhns-proxy-tools rhn-ssl-cert-check SatConfig-bootstrap SatConfig-bootstrap-server SatConfig-cluster SatConfig-dbsynch SatConfig-general SatConfig-generator SatConfig-installer SatConfig-spread scdb SNMPAlerts SputLite-client SputLite-server ssl_bridge status_log_acceptor tsdb; do
rpm -q $package >/dev/null && echo $package; done`


Start Date: 2008-10-23 09:07:48
End Date: 2008-10-23 09:07:54
Return Code: 256
Raw Output: view/download raw script output
Filtered Output:

rpm: no packages given for erase

--- Additional comment from msuchy on 2008-10-23 10:01:22 EDT ---

This happens in 5.1 as well. Sat5.2.0 is only RHEL5 and Oracle 10g and regression. Since this is not regression, I'm not going to fix in sat 5.2

And since in 5.3 will be WebUI installer replaced with CLI installer and WEBUI installer will be in maintance, and since this bug has very low impact and is *very* hard to fix... I'm setting the bug WONTFIX.

--- Additional comment from pthomas on 2008-10-27 14:22:42 EDT ---

I think this needs to be documented. May be displaying a message to run rhn_check after deactivating the satellite should work.  reopening and aligning to sat 5.3 triage.

--- Additional comment from bperkins on 2008-10-30 11:44:39 EDT ---

Cliff and I agree with both Comment #1 and Comment #2.  We suggest to have a simple solution, let's just put up a blue dialog after deactivate proxy that says something along the lines of: "Proxy deactivation scheduled, please run rhn_check on the proxy server to complete this process."

I don't think we want to add more logic to the WebUI activation as we are deprecating it.