Red Hat Network Satellite Installation on a system behind http proxy produces error could not populate database

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Issue

  • When installing RHN Satellite on a system located behind a proxy server users may receive the error message "Could not populate database" when executing install.pl. When /var/log/rhn/populate_db.log is examined it contains the following error messages.

    *** Installing Oracle schema from [/etc/sysconfig/rhn/oracle/deploy.sql].
    Error 46 initializing SQL*Plus
    HTTP proxy setting has incorrect value
    SP2-1502: The HTTP proxy server specified by http_proxy is not accessible
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Network Satellite 5

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