Description of problem:
configchannel.createOrUpdatePath fails to update file/dir, configchannel.createOrUpdateSymlink fails to update symlink. Tracebask says there is 500 Internal Server Error.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
SWnightly as of 2012-05-17
spacewalk-java-1.8.69-1.el6.noarch


How reproducible:
always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use API functions configchannel.createOrUpdatePath and configchannel.createOrUpdateSymlink to update file/directory or symlink in configuration channel


Actual results:
Traceback says:
  [...]
  File "our_script.py", line 249, in create_or_update_path
    self.client.configchannel.createOrUpdatePath(self.key, configChannelLabel, path, isDir, path_info)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1199, in __call__
    return self.__send(self.__name, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1489, in __request
    verbose=self.__verbose
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1243, in request
    headers
xmlrpclib.ProtocolError: <ProtocolError for hp-ml370g6-01.rhts.eng.bos.redhat.com/rpc/api: 500 Internal Server Error>


Expected results:
Should work


Additional info:
This started to fail with SWnightly from 2012-05-15