Plugins » Katello

Cloned from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1127011
Description of problem:
The bootstrap RPM from the satellite server (http://sat6.example.com/pub/katello-ca-consumer-sat6.example.com-1.0-1.noarch.rpm) contains a sed error that prevents older subscription-manager RPMs (pre 0.96) from registering (RHEL 6.1 and RHEL 5.7 are affected)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Satellite 6.0.3
subscription-manager older than 96.6

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. cold install 5.7 or 6.1
2. install bootstrap RPM from satellite server (http://sat6.example.com/pub/katello-ca-consumer-sat6.example.com-1.0-1.noarch.rpm)
3. subscription-manager register

Actual results:

1. yum -y --nogpgcheck install katello-ca-consumer-sat6.example.com-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
   <<<snip>>>

================================================================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================================================================
Installing:
katello-ca-consumer-sat6.example.com noarch 1.0-1 /katello-ca-consumer-sat6.example.com-1.0-1.noarch 5.2 k

Transaction Summary ================================================================================================================================
Install 1 Package(s)
Upgrade 0 Package(s)

<<<snip>>>

Running Transaction
Installing : katello-ca-consumer-sat6.example.com 1/1
sed: -e expression #1, char 27: unknown option to `s'
duration: 0(ms)
Installed products updated.

Installed:
katello-ca-consumer-sat6.example.com.noarch 0:1.0-1

Complete!

• END ***

Which leads to different errors when doing "subscription-manager register"

• For RHEL 5:
1. subscription-manager register
   Username: admin
   Password:
   RemoteServerException instance has no attribute 'args'

• For RHEL 6:
  [root@localhost ~]# subscription-manager register
  Username: admin
  Password:
  Remote server error. Please check the connection details, or see /var/log/rhsm/rhsm.log for more information.

From rhsm.log on RHEL 6

2014-08-05 21:13:46,113 [DEBUG] _request() @connection.py:209 - Making request: GET /subscription/
2014-08-05 21:13:46,150 [DEBUG] _request() @connection.py:218 - Response status: 404
2014-08-05 21:13:46,150 [ERROR] validateResponse() @connection.py:230 - No JSON object could be decoded

Looking at the postscript for katello-ca-consumer-sat6.example.com-1.0-1.noarch, we can see the prefix sed line has an error.

~~~

1. configure rhsm
2. the config command was introduced in rhsm 0.96.6
3. fallback left for older versions
   if test ${RHSM_VERSION⁰:-0} gt 0 -o ${RHSM_VERSION¹:-0} -gt 96 -o \( ${RHSM_VERSION¹:-0} -eq 96 -a ${RHSM_VERSION²:-0}
   -gt 6 \); then
   subscription-manager config \
   --server.hostname="$KATELLO_SERVER" \
   --server.prefix="$PREFIX" \
   --server.port="$PORT" \
   --rhsm.repo_ca_cert="%(ca_cert_dir)scandlepin-local.pem" \
   --rhsm.baseurl="$BASEURL"
   else
   sed -i "s/^hostname\s*=.*/hostname = $KATELLO_SERVER/g" $CFG
   sed -i "s/^port\s*=.*/port = $PORT/g" $CFG
   sed -i "s/^prefix\s*=.*/prefix = $PREFIX/g" $CFG <--
   sed -i 's/^repo_ca_cert\s*=.*/repo_ca_cert = %(ca_cert_dir)scandlepin-local.pem/g' $CFG
   sed -i "s|^baseurl\s*=.*|baseurl=$BASEURL|g" $CFG
   fi
   ~~~

Changing the sed line to this resolves the issue:
sed -i 's|^prefix\s*=.*|prefix = /katello/api|g' /etc/rhsm/rhsm.conf

1. sed -i 's/^prefix\s*=.*/prefix = /katello/api/g' /etc/rhsm/rhsm.conf
   sed: -e expression #1, char 27: unknown option to `s'
2. sed -i 's|^prefix\s*=.*|prefix = /katello/api|g' /etc/rhsm/rhsm.conf #

Work around is to update /etc/rhsm/rhsm.conf and change prefix line from "/subscription" to "/katello/api" and then run subscription-manager again.

A note to upgrade the subscription-manager RPM to the newest version before registering a system is recommended in the user guide may help as the older version of subscription-manager doesn't support --org and required me to set the default org for the user that I was using.
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Satellite/6.0/html-single/User_Guide/index.html#chap-Configuring_Hosts