osad init script starts OK on a RHEL system, but the scheduled tasks does not run immediately

Issue

• osad is started but the scheduled tasks does not run immediately in clients.

• When checking the System Details in Satellite Server, the OSA Status of the affected system is shown as offline.

• Sometimes, osad returns a start OK but there is no process running:

  root@localhost:(/root)#/etc/init.d/osad start
  [  OK  ] osad: [  OK  ]
  root@localhost:(/root)#ps -ef | grep osa
  root      3615  3574  0 10:25 pts/1    00:00:00 grep osa
  

• The following messages are seen when osad service shows as started sucesfully but not running, in debug mode (stopping osad and starting it with osad -vvv), in /var/log/osad:

  jabber_lib.dispatch: Unhandled stanza <iq type='error' id='auth-set-1d7da2-1'><error xmlns = 'jabber:client'  code='401' /><query xmlns = 'jabber:iq:auth' ><username>osad-868012da7d</username><resource>osad</resource><digest>96e40c0c4a2dac9524cb08361d812981a1f547dd</digest></query></iq>
  <--snip-->
  jabber_lib._get_callbacks: <iq type='result' id='1'><query xmlns = 'jabber:iq:register' ><username /><password /><instructions>Enter a username and password to register with this server.</instructions></query></iq>jabber_lib.dispatch: Unhandled stanza <iq type='result' id='1'><query xmlns = 'jabber:iq:register' ><username /><password /><instructions>Enter a username and password to register with this server.</instructions></query></iq>