Unable to Register System With Exception Type 'exceptions.IOError' On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Satellite 5.4

Issue

  • When attempting to register a server I get the following error:
Exception type <type 'exceptions.IOError'> Exception while handling function repodata Request object information:
URI: /XMLRPC/GET-REQ/rhel-x86_64-server-6/repodata/repomd.xml

Resolution

  • Ensure permissions on /var/cache on the server being registered are 755
# chmod 755 /var/cache
  • Ensure that selinux is allowing httpd to write to /var/log/cache
# restorecon /var/log/cache

Root Cause

  • Satellite needs to write to /var/cache to copy repo information.
  • If this write operation fails, you will get an IO Error.

Diagnostic Steps

  • Also check /var/log/audit/audit.log for the following:
Aug 21 07:59:38 lrhssr02 setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/httpd from search access on the directory /var/cache. For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 9032053f-9c92-4f60-9b4c-653fe2ce1b02
Aug 21 07:59:39 lrhssr02 setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/httpd from search access on the directory /var/cache. For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 9032053f-9c92-4f60-9b4c-653fe2ce1b02

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