[RHEL] RE while trying to activate new Red Hat Linux server...

[Rex Phillips]

I was trying to activate a new Red Hat Linux Enterprise 5.5 server using the
rhn_ks -activationkey=422d40c6e1dbe2df0468db1ddef4e074 command and received
a time out message.  The up2date log had the following error entry:

 

[Mon May 24 10:14:24 2010] up2date A socket error occurred: timed out,
attempt #1

[Mon May 24 10:16:29 2010] up2date A socket error occurred: timed out,
attempt #2

[Mon May 24 10:18:34 2010] up2date A socket error occurred: timed out,
attempt #3

[Mon May 24 10:20:39 2010] up2date A socket error occurred: timed out,
attempt #4

[Mon May 24 10:22:44 2010] up2date A socket error occurred: timed out,
attempt #5

[Mon May 24 10:22:44 2010] up2date Error communicating with server. The
message was:

timed out

[Mon May 24 10:22:44 2010] up2date 

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/sbin/rhnreg_ks", line 216, in ?

    cli.run()

  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhncli.py", line 65, in run

    sys.exit(self.main() or 0)

  File "/usr/sbin/rhnreg_ks", line 90, in main

    rhnreg.getCaps()

  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnreg.py", line 280, in getCaps

    s.capabilities.validate()

  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnserver.py", line 156, in
__get_capabilities

    self.registration.welcome_message()

  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnserver.py", line 50, in __call__

    return rpcServer.doCall(method, *args, **kwargs)

  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 214, in doCall

    raise up2dateErrors.CommunicationError(e.args[0])

up2date_client.up2dateErrors.CommunicationError: Error communicating with
server. The message was:

timed out

 

 

I have never seen this before.  Anyone know what this indicates?

 

Thanks,

Rex

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