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Description of problem: Activation of Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
*** Apologies - accidentally submitted report prior to completion **** Description of problem: When following documented satellite upgrade process, existing web proxy details are not updated in new /etc/rhn/rhn.conf file. The documentation does not indicate that this is the case, and following the process leads to a Traceback error message due to inability to connect directly to satellite.rhn.redhat.com. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 5.3.0 upgrading to 5.4 How reproducible: Follow documented process to upgrade satellite server while on a network that requires use of a proxy server to connect to satellite.rhn.redhat.com. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Running the following command without editing the rhn.conf proxy config. rhn-satellite-activate --rhn-cert <path-to-cert> --ignore-version-mismatch Actual results: RHN_PARENT: satellite.rhn.redhat.com ERROR: unhandled exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/rhn-satellite-activate", line 45, in ? sys.exit(abs(mod.main() or 0)) File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/rhn_satellite_activate.py", line 603, in main activateSatellite_remote(options) File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/rhn_satellite_activate.py", line 297, in activateSatellite_remote ret = s.satellite.deactivate_satellite(systemid, rhn_cert) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhn/rpclib.py", line 649, in __call__ return self._send(self._name, args) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhn/rpclib.py", line 383, in _request self._handler, request, verbose=self._verbose) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhn/transports.py", line 171, in request headers, fd = req.send_http(host, handler) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhn/transports.py", line 702, in send_http self._connection.connect() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhn/connections.py", line 193, in connect sock.connect((self.host, self.port)) File "<string>", line 1, in connect socket.error: (113, 'No route to host') Expected results: return of the following string only; RHN_PARENT: satellite.rhn.redhat.com Additional info:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 719629 ***
From bug #719629: The issue described in this bug report will be resolved in the Satellite upgrades by instructing customers to: 1. create an answer file containing correct http proxy settings (preparations.txt) 2. use the answer file in the Satellite upgrade (add --answer-file=... option when running install.pl --upgrade).