Starting Satellite fails with "Attempting Re-Connect to the database failed"
Issue
# rhn-satellite start
Starting spacewalk services...
Starting postgresql service: [FAILED]
Initializing jabberd processes ...
Starting router: [ OK ]
Starting sm: [ OK ]
Starting c2s: [ OK ]
Starting s2s: [ OK ]
Starting tomcat5: [ FAILED ]
Waiting for tomcat to be ready ...
Starting httpd: [ OK ]
Starting osa-dispatcher: Spacewalk 7078 2014/12/17 13:44:48 -04:00: ('Error caught:',)
Spacewalk 7078 2014/12/17 13:44:48 -04:00: ('Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/rhn/osad/jabber_lib.py", line 117, in main
self.setup_config(config)
File "/usr/share/rhn/osad/osa_dispatcher.py", line 112, in setup_config
rhnSQL.initDB()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/spacewalk/server/rhnSQL/__init__.py", line 102, in initDB
__init__DB(backend, host, port, username, password, database)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/spacewalk/server/rhnSQL/__init__.py", line 55, in __init__DB
__DB.connect()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/spacewalk/server/rhnSQL/driver_postgresql.py", line 174, in connect
return self.connect(reconnect=0)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/spacewalk/server/rhnSQL/driver_postgresql.py", line 163, in connect
password=str(self.password))
SQLConnectError: (None, None, 'rhnschema', 'Attempting Re-Connect to the database failed')
[ OK ]
Starting Monitoring ... [ OK ]
Starting MonitoringScout ... [ OK ]
Starting rhn-search...
Starting cobbler daemon: [ OK ]
Starting RHN Taskomatic...
Done.
Environment
Red Hat Satellite v.5.6
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