Client not able to register in Satellite server

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Issue

  • Client not able to register in Satellite server
  • Unable to run rhn_register
  • rhn_register generates the following libxml2 errors:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/sbin/rhn_register", line 26, in <module>
    from up2date_client import tui
    File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/tui.py", line 28, in <module>
    import rhnreg, hardware
    File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnreg.py", line 21, in <module>
    import hardware
    File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/hardware.py", line 38, in <module>
    import dmidecode
    File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/dmidecode.py", line 28, in <module>
    import libxml2
    File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libxml2.py", line 1, in <module>
    import libxml2mod
    ImportError: /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/libxml2mod.so: symbol xmlInitializeDict, version LIBXML2_2.8.0 not defined in file libxml2.so.2 with link time reference
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.x
  • EMC Networker Backup Client (lgtoclnt.x86_64)
  • libxml2

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