Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 64033
rhn_register returns a socket error
Last modified: 2007-10-23 22:04:17 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 Description of problem: After log in as root and type the command "rhn_register" the GUI-windoe appears and in the shell tho following errors occure: A socket error occured: (0, 'Error'), attempt #1 A socket error occured: (0, 'Error'), attempt #2 A socket error occured: (0, 'Error'), attempt #3 A socket error occured: (0, 'Error'), attempt #4 A socket error occured: (0, 'Error'), attempt #5 From the GUI commes an error massage "Schwerwiegender Fehler wdhrend der Ladung der Willkommensmitteilung: Error". After pressing OK the GUI-window disappear. The rhn_register does not work from the first beginnig. Also after updating. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.login as root 2.# rhn_register 3. Additional info:
socket errors generally indicate a network error of some sort (either not being able to talk the www.rhns.redhat.com or a proxy if you have configured proxy support...) can you reach www.rhns.redhat.com from that machine? Is there a proxy configured in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhn_register?
I am behind a proxy. My webbrowser is conigered to go via the proxy and I can reach the site www.rhns.redhat.com. It switchs automatically to https://rhn.redhat.com In the file /etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhn_register there are the following lines from which I hope that the proxy is enabled: enableProxy[comment]=Use a HTTP Proxy enableProxy=1 httpProxy[comment]=HTTP proxy in host:port format, e.g. squid.redhat.com:3128 httpProxy=192.168.155.100:80 When I tried to reach https://www.rhns.redhat.com/XMLRPC which is the serverURL a window appear to acceppt the certificate. After accepption I get the following: Method Not Allowed The requested method GET is not allowed for the URL /XMLRPC. Apache/1.3.22 Server at rhnapp-1.rwc-colo.redhat.com Port 80
The proxy config looks correct. The error you get when trying to reach https://www.rhns.redhat.com/XMLRPC via a browser is suspected (that url only excepts POST requests...) With the proxy configured in rhn_register, you still get the socket errors?
With the proxy configuration I get still the socket errors. The url https://www.rhns.redhat.com/XMLRPC is in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhn_register. Is it possible to log in in Red Hat Network without XMLRPC? But I gues the XMLRPC is nesseccary, because it is there since the installation. The proxy I use is Sambar5.1 on Windows 2000. The proxy is nesseccary, because there are more than one computer which need to connect to the internet. The proxy is configured to acceppt SSL connections.
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, I could solve the problem with rhn_register and up2date. As disriped before I use an windows 2000 computer with sambar5.1 as a proxy server. With this configuration the rhn_register is not possible. In windows 2000 it is possible to make an internet connection available to all users in the network without a thirt party program. On the win 2000 computer the ip-address change automatically to 192.168.0.1. To comunicate with the win 2000 computer I changed my ip-address as well. The I configured the rhn with rhn_regisster --configure to enable the proxy with the new ip-address. It does'nt still work. Then I tried something that will be a little bit confusing. I disabled the use of the http-proxy. And now I could start rhn_register and up2date. With that configuration I could receive updates and install them without any problem. I do not know why to disable the http-proxy in the rhn configuration. In the configuration of the web browser it was still neccessary to set the right proxy ip-address. Best regards Norbert Schulz
My assumption is that the win2k box does some sort of NATing...