On RHN Satellite, while changing software channel repository sync schedule it fails with ISE and traceback

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Issue

  • On RHN Satellite while changing software channel repository sync schedule it fails with ISE and  traceback :

    The user <ORGADMIN> is the not a RHN Satellite Administrator. Only users with RHN Satellite Administrator role can grant  or revoke RHN Satellite
 Administrator roles from other users.

Environment

  • Red Hat Network Satellite v5.4

Resolution

Root Cause

  • It is a bug where OrgAdmin is not allowed to update the reposync schedule.

Diagnostic Steps

  • From satellite web interface, select Channels -> Manage  Software Channels -> select one of  software channels which is bind  to repository -> Repositories -> Sync -> Under Select a  schedule: Change schedule from daily to Disable Schedule and press Schedule. It errors out with internal server error.

    "Internal Server Error

The server experienced a problem which prevented your request 
from being filled out. It may not be possible to execute this action at 
this time.

Please help us correct this problem by contacting us with details of how you received this message."

  • Received trace back:

    The following exception occurred while executing this request:
POST /rhn/channels/manage/Sync.do

Date:8/12/11 1:34:11 PM EEST
Headers:
  host: satellite.csc.fi
  user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0
  accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
  accept-language: en-us,en;q=0.5
  accept-encoding: gzip, deflate
  accept-charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
  connection: keep-alive
  referer: https://satellite.csc.fi/rhn/channels/manage/Sync.do?cid=1206
  cookie: JSESSIONID=7AEC1EBA0DBABD26AA8EFA229CCF809D; __utma=105197073.257941345.1291029042.1308725565.1312811626.12;
__utmz=105197073.1312811626.12.4.utmcsr=google|utmccn=(organic)|utmcmd=organic|utmctr=grep%20-o%20;
 pxt-session-cookie=3581030x0c97413436932f518980bff9bc45e488
  content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
  content-length: 503

Request:
Local Name = satellite.csc.fi
Server Name = satellite.csc.fi
Requested Session Id came from Cookie
Requested Session Valid = true
Session = org.apache.catalina.session.StandardSessionFacade@5b095b09[session=StandardSession[7AEC1EBA0DBABD26AA8EFA229CCF809D]]
Protocol = https
Request Locale = en_US
Request Character Encoding = UTF-8
Attribute
 Names = rhnActiveLang, javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.fmt.timeZone.request, 
javax.servlet.request.key_size, javax.servlet.request.ssl_session, 
org.apache.struts.action.MESSAGE,
javax.servlet.request.cipher_suite,
 parentUrl, channel_name, date, org.apache.struts.action.MODULE, 
__sitemesh__filterapplied, session, 
org.apache.struts.action.mapping.instance, dataset, requestedUri, cid,

Form Variables:
  date_day_week: 1
  csrf_token: 1722414814206173192
  1154021400_PAGE_SIZE_LABEL_SELECTED: null
  list_1154021400_parent_is_an_element: true
  date_weekly_hour: 2
  date_daily_hour: 2
  1154021400_PAGE_SIZE_LABEL: 25
  date_daily_minute: 10
  cid: 1206
  list_1154021400_sortdir: 
  list_1154021400_sortby: 
  list_1154021400_search_child: false
  date_monthly_hour: 2
  date_weekly_minute: 10
  date_monthly_minute: 10
  submitted: true
  date_status: daily
  date_cron: 0 10 2 ? * *
  date_day_month: 1
  dispatch: Schedule
  list_1154021400_search_parent: true


User Information:
User rheladmin (id 21, org_id 2)
Exception:
javax.servlet.ServletException: ERRORS:
The user
 rheladmin is the not a RHN Satellite Administrator. Only users with RHN Satellite Administrator role can grant  or revoke RHN Satellite Administrator roles from other users.
        at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processException(RequestProcessor.java:535)
        at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:433)
        at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:237)
        at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.struts.RhnRequestProcessor.process(RhnRequestProcessor.java:114)
        at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1196)
        at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doPost(ActionServlet.java:432)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:710)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
        at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.AuthFilter.doFilter(AuthFilter.java:101)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
        at com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter.parsePage(PageFilter.java:142)
        at com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter.doFilter(PageFilter.java:58)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
        at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.LocalizedEnvironmentFilter.doFilter(LocalizedEnvironmentFilter.java:67)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
        at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.EnvironmentFilter.doFilter(EnvironmentFilter.java:108)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
        at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.SessionFilter.doFilter(SessionFilter.java:55)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
        at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:97)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:210)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:172)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
        at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108)
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:151)
        at org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler.invoke(JkCoyoteHandler.java:200)
        at org.apache.jk.common.HandlerRequest.invoke(HandlerRequest.java:291)
        at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.invoke(ChannelSocket.java:775)
        at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.processConnection(ChannelSocket.java:704)
        at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket$SocketConnection.runIt(ChannelSocket.java:897)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:685)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:736)
Caused by: com.redhat.rhn.common.validator.ValidatorException: ERRORS:
The
 user rheladmin is the not a RHN Satellite Administrator. Only users with RHN Satellite Administrator role can grant  or revoke RHN Satellite
 Administrator roles from other users.
        at com.redhat.rhn.common.validator.ValidatorException.raiseException(ValidatorException.java:79)
        at com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.TaskomaticApi.ensureSatAdminRole(TaskomaticApi.java:135)
        at com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.TaskomaticApi.unscheduleTask(TaskomaticApi.java:170)
        at com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.TaskomaticApi.scheduleRepoSync(TaskomaticApi.java:111)
        at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.action.channel.manage.SyncRepositoriesAction.execute(SyncRepositoriesAction.java:124)
        at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:431)
        ... 40 more

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