After upgrading Red Hat Satellite-5.7 to 5.8, rhn-search fails to start.

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Issue

  • After upgrading Red Hat Satellite from Satellite 5.7 to Satellite 5.8, rhn-search fails to start.
  • cleanindex fails with the following traceback :-
# /etc/init.d/rhn-search cleanindex
Stopping rhn-search...
rhn-search was not running.
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: JVMCFRE003 bad major version; class=com/redhat/satellite/search/DeleteIndexes, offset=6
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassImpl(Native Method)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:286)
        at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:74)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:538)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:449)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$300(URLClassLoader.java:77)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$ClassFinder.run(URLClassLoader.java:1041)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:448)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:427)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:676)
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:358)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:642)
Could not find the main class: com.redhat.satellite.search.DeleteIndexes.  Program will exit.

Environment

  • Red Satellite 5.8

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