Why spacewalk-clone-by-date command fails with error "IOError: unsupported XML-RPC protocol" or "redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcFault: unhandled internal exception" or "Exception RuntimeError: 'maximum recursion depth exceeded "
Issue
- The spacewalk-clone-by-date command fails,
# spacewalk-clone-by-date --username=username --server=satellite.example.com --channels=rhel-x86_64-server-6 rhel-x86_64-server-6U9 --to_date=2017-02-15
Password:
Exception RuntimeError: 'maximum recursion depth exceeded in __subclasscheck__' in <type 'exceptions.AttributeError'> ignored
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/spacewalk-clone-by-date", line 420, in <module>
sys.exit(abs(main() or 0))
File "/usr/bin/spacewalk-clone-by-date", line 410, in main
return cloneByDate.main(args)
File "/usr/share/rhn/utils/cloneByDate.py", line 119, in main
xmlrpc = RemoteApi(options.server, options.username, options.password)
File "/usr/share/rhn/utils/cloneByDate.py", line 848, in __init__
self.client = xmlrpclib.Server(server_url)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1463, in __init__
raise IOError, "unsupported XML-RPC protocol"
IOError: unsupported XML-RPC protocol
# spacewalk-clone-by-date --username=username --server=satellite.example.com --channels=rhel-x86_64-server-6 rhel-x86_64-server-6U9 --to_date=2017-02-15
Password:
redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcFault: unhandled internal exception: net.sf.jpam.Pam (initialization failure)
Environment
- Red Hat Network Satellite 5.7
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