Satellite certificate activation fails with "unhandled internal exception: The string asciiSig is not a valid signature"
Issue
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Activation of a Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite certificate activation fails with the following error
# rhn-satellite-activate -vvv --rhn-cert embry-riddle-aeronautical-university.cert RHN_PARENT: satellite.rhn.redhat.com HTTP_PROXY: None HTTP_PROXY_USERNAME: None HTTP_PROXY_PASSWORD: <password> CA_CERT: /usr/share/rhn/RHNS-CA-CERT Checking cert XML sanity and GPG signature: '/usr/bin/validate-sat-cert.pl --keyring /etc/webapp-keyring.gpg /etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhn-entitlement-cert.xml-7520-1250698071.75958991' Executing: remote XMLRPC deactivation (if necessary). Executing: remote XMLRPC activation call. Error reported from RHN: <Fault -2: 'unhandled internal exception: The string asciiSig is not a valid signature'> ERROR: unhandled XMLRPC fault upon remote activation: <Fault -2: 'unhandled internal exception: The string asciiSig is not a valid signature'> ERROR: <Fault -2: 'unhandled internal exception: The string asciiSig is not a valid signature'>
Environment
- Red Hat Network Satellite
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