Why does satellite certificate activation fail with "Unhandled exception: unsupported version: -1" ?
Issue
- trying to activate Satellite server to Red Hat Network
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error when running rhn-satellite-activate:
# rhn-satellite-activate -vvv --rhn-cert=<path to cert> RHN_PARENT: satellite.rhn.redhat.com HTTP_PROXY: <proxy hostname>:<port> HTTP_PROXY_USERNAME: <username> 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-25157-1265298973.70446110' Database connectioned initialized: refer to default_db setting in /etc/rhn/rhn.conf Attempting local RHN Certificate push (and therefore activation) Executing: remote XMLRPC deactivation (if necessary). Executing: remote XMLRPC activation call. Error reported from RHN: <Fault -2: 'unhandled internal exception: unsupported version: -1'> ERROR: unhandled XMLRPC fault upon remote activation: <Fault -2: 'unhandled internal exception: unsupported version: -1'> ERROR: <Fault -2: 'unhandled internal exception: unsupported version: -1'>
Environment
- Red Hat Network Satellite
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