Osad fails to connect with Satellite 5 server after updating/kickstarting client system to RHEL 6.6
Issue
- System kickstarted using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 kickstart tree is failing with below error message while restarting
osadservice, if SELinux is enabled:
[root@Client1 ~]# service osad restart
Shutting down osad: [ OK ]
Starting osad: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/rhn/osad/jabber_lib.py", line 252, in setup_connection
c = self._get_jabber_client(js)
File "/usr/share/rhn/osad/jabber_lib.py", line 309, in _get_jabber_client
c.connect()
File "/usr/share/rhn/osad/jabber_lib.py", line 567, in connect
jabber.Client.connect(self)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/jabber/xmlstream.py", line 488, in connect
raise socket.error("Unable to connect to the host and port specified")
error: Unable to connect to the host and port specified
Environment
- Red Hat Satellite 5.x server
- SELinux-enabled Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 client system with osad service enabled as part of Push functionality
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