gensystemid: rpclib problem on RHEL 6

[sylock]

Hi,

I'm trying to install a spacewalk server and use spacewalk-rhn-sync, which is based on mrepo: (https://github.com/angrox/spacewalk-api-scripts/tree/master/spacewalk-rhn-sync).

I'm on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Santiago)

In the procedure, I need to generate a system id with gensystemid for each repo I want to sync. When trying to execute is, I get that error:

$ gensystemid -r 6Server -a x86_64 /srv/mrepo/rhel6s-x86_64
/usr/share/mrepo/up2date_client/up2dateUtils.py:16: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
import md5
RHN Username: [email protected]
RHN Password:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/gensystemid", line 274, in
main()
File "/usr/bin/gensystemid", line 241, in main
except rpclib.Fault, f:
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Fault'

Here is the rhn library installed :

import rhn
rhn.file
'/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rhn/init.pyc'

$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rhn
rhnlib-2.5.69-1.el6.noarch

$ rpm -qi rhnlib
Name : rhnlib Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 2.5.69 Vendor: Koji
Release : 1.el6 Build Date: Thu 10 Oct 2013 10:20:02 AM CEST
Install Date: Mon 07 Jul 2014 02:47:16 PM CEST Build Host: ip-10-112-231-15
Group : Development/Libraries Source RPM: rhnlib-2.5.69-1.el6.src.rpm
Size : 216722 License: GPLv2
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Wed 26 Feb 2014 11:37:28 AM CET, Key ID 0e646f68863a853d
Packager : Koji
URL : https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk
Summary : Python libraries for the Spacewalk project
Description :
rhnlib is a collection of python modules used by the Spacewalk (http://spacewalk.redhat.com) software.

[sylock]

What I understand :

• there is a package rhnlib provided by redhat in version 2.5.22 (in the baseline repository)
• there is another one installed by spacewalk and residing on the spacewalk repository in version 2.5.69

mrepo doesn't seems to run well with the spacewalk version of the rhnlib -> How could we fix it?

[fuco809]

tried it on centos 6.7 and rhnlib 2.5.77 with same result.
@sylock do you have found a solution or workaround?

as i see there are two rpclib.py on the system and the wrong would be taken by gensystemid.

/usr/share/mrepo/rhn/rpclib.py
/usr/share/mrepo/rhn/rpclib.pyo
/usr/share/mrepo/rhn/rpclib.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rhn/rpclib.py
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rhn/rpclib.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rhn/rpclib.pyc

grep "Fault" /usr/share/mrepo/rhn/rpclib.py
Fault = xmlrpclib.Fault
s = "X-RHN-Fault-Code"
s = "X-RHN-Fault-String"
grep "Fault" /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rhn/rpclib.py
s = "X-RHN-Fault-Code"
s = "X-RHN-Fault-String"

UPDATE:
after replacing the files /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rhn/rpclib* with the mrepo versions the gensystemid script runs without problem.
additional i had to set in the config /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date following two options, because i am behind a proxy:
serverURL=http://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC
useNoSSLForPackages=1