There is two things. a) that it offer you as default 5.3. This is problem of satellite. Installer run: rhn-proxy-activate --server=$RHN_PARENT --list-available-versions 2>/dev/null|sort|tail -n1 and result is given as default. b) that error: There was a problem activating the RHN Proxy entitlement: ERROR: upon entitlement/activation attempt: unknown error - <Fault -2: 'unhandled internal exception: null'> Proxy activation failed! Installation interrupted. Do you had 5.3 proxy channel on satellite? Can you attach relevant lines from logs of satellite?
I got Proxy 5.4 installed (though the old installer i was using for command line defaulted to 5.2) - moving to ON_QA - I think stuff landed, or Rel-Eng will have content pushed by then if needed.
I created two BZs addressing the issues in Comment#6: Bug 647105 & Bug 647096 STAGE VALIDATED on Satellite-5.4.0-RHEL5-re20101015.0 and spacewalk-proxy-installer-1.1.2-1.el5sat.noarch httpd-2.2.3-43.el5_5.3.x86_64 1:mod_ssl-2.2.3-43.el5_5.3.x86_64 mod_python-3.2.8-3.1.x86_64 jabberd-2.2.8-8.el5sat.x86_64 spacewalk-setup-jabberd-1.2.1-1.el5sat.noarch rhn-proxy-branding-5.4.0.8-1.el5sat.noarch spacewalk-proxy-docs-1.1.1-1.el5sat.noarch spacewalk-certs-tools-1.1.1-1.el5sat.noarch 1:spacewalk-ssl-cert-check-2.0-1.el5sat.noarch spacewalk-backend-1.2.13-11.el5sat.noarch spacewalk-proxy-redirect-1.2.2-4.el5sat.noarch spacewalk-proxy-package-manager-1.2.2-4.el5sat.noarch spacewalk-proxy-common-1.2.2-4.el5sat.noarch spacewalk-proxy-broker-1.2.2-4.el5sat.noarch spacewalk-proxy-management-1.2.2-4.el5sat.noarch spacewalk-proxy-selinux-1.1.1-1.el5sat.noarch spacewalk-proxy-common-1.2.2-4.el5sat.noarch spacewalk-proxy-selinux-1.1.1-1.el5sat.noarch
The 5.4.0 RHN Satellite and RHN Proxy release has occurred. This issue has been resolved with this release. RHEA-2010:0801 - RHN Satellite Server 5.4.0 Upgrade https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/errata/details/Details.do?eid=10332 RHEA-2010:0803 - RHN Tools enhancement update https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/errata/details/Details.do?eid=10333 RHEA-2010:0802 - RHN Proxy Server 5.4.0 bug fix update https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/errata/details/Details.do?eid=10334 RHEA-2010:0800 - RHN Satellite Server 5.4.0 https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/errata/details/Details.do?eid=10335 Docs are available: http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Network_Satellite/index.html Regards, Clifford