March 2023 - ARCHIVED: Uyuni Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Excluding Uyuni from automatic updates/patching?
by Johannes Kastl 31 Mar '23

31 Mar '23

Good morning/evening/afternoon/night/day/... everyone, I am starting with Uyuni and am still learning new things everyday, so please excuse if this is a FAQ or already answered in the documentation. How do I exclude Uyuni and its components from being updated automatically in case of automatic updates being enabled. Maybe I am running yast2-online-update or there is another mechanism to patch/update the system periodically. As far as I read minor updates could be done this way (but might need a stop of the spacewalk services). But as there are no separate repositories for major upgrades, how to prevent the automatic updates from doing major upgrades? I thought of adding zypper locks for the packages or of disabling the repository (zypper mr -d) and only enabling it, when doing the Uyuni updates. Maybe someone can share their experiences or recommendations. Thanks in advance! Kind Regards, Johannes -- Johannes Kastl Linux Consultant & Trainer Tel.: +49 (0) 151 2372 5802 Mail: kastl(a)b1-systems.de B1 Systems GmbH Osterfeldstraße 7 / 85088 Vohburg http://www.b1-systems.de GF: Ralph Dehner Unternehmenssitz: Vohburg / AG: Ingolstadt,HRB 3537

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Community Hours tomorrow, Friday 31st, at 16.00 CEST
by Julio Gonzalez 30 Mar '23

30 Mar '23

Hello, As every last Friday of each month, we'll be having tomorrow a session of the Uyuni Community Hours. The agenda (as of today) is: - Hack Week: OpenSCAP usability improvements - Hack Week: Code coverage of Uyuni triggered by our Cucumber Test suite - Visualising Salt events - Project Lotus - Syncing optional channel from UI (and not just from CLI) The link to join is: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3Ameeting_ZjZlMWI0OTctNGMxZi00… Remember you can find all the information about the Community hours, included updated agenda and link for the meeting at https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/wiki/Uyuni-Community-Hours See you there! -- Julio González Gil Release Engineer, SUSE Manager and Uyuni jgonzalez(a)suse.com

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Unable to create new Organization
by Ken Cote 23 Mar '23

23 Mar '23

Hello, I am encountering an issue where I am unable to create a new Organization. When I try to create an organization I receive a WEB TRACEBACK. I have also tried creating a new organization with spacecmd and I receive the same traceback. The error from spacecmd is: ERROR: redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcFault: unhandled internal exception: ERROR: null value in column "group_type" of relation "rhnusergroup" violates not-null constraint Detail: Failing row contains (176, Cluster Administrators, Cluster Administrators for Org OIS, null, 0, null, 24, 2023-02-24 11:57:40.317269-07, 2023-02-24 11:57:40.317269-07). Where: SQL statement "insert into rhnUserGroup ( id, name, description, max_members, group_type, org_id ) values ( group_val, 'Cluster Administrators', 'Cluster Administrators for Org ' || name_in, NULL, ug_type, new_org_id )" PL/pgSQL function create_new_org(character varying,character varying) line 146 at SQL statement The error in the emailed traceback is the same. I am currently running Uyuni 2023.01. Any ideas on how I might go about troubleshooting and resolving this issue? Thanks!

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IMPORTANT: Security Patch for Uyuni Server 2023.03
by Julio Gonzalez 22 Mar '23

22 Mar '23

Hello! The SUSE Customer support team detected a security problem that caused the password used for bootstrapping or virtual host manager configuration to be captured in clear text in the rhn_web_api.log A patch for Uyuni 2023.03 is now available, and we recommend you apply it as soon as possible, without waiting for the next release (that obviously will include it as well. You can apply the patch at the Uyuni Server by following the instructions at: https://www.uyuni-project.org/pages/patches.html If you are still on 2023.01 or earlier, update first to 2023.03 normally (make sure you read the release notes, as special steps maybe required if you are not on 2023.03 already), and then apply the patch as explained above. Happy hacking! -- Julio González Gil Release Engineer, SUSE Manager and Uyuni jgonzalez(a)suse.com

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Uyuni 2023.03 is released!
by Julio Gonzalez 17 Mar '23

17 Mar '23

VERY IMPORTANT: 2023.03 may require a special procedure if you are not upgrading from 2023.01 Make sure you read the release notes for all the versions between the one you are using now, and 2023.03! We are happy to announce the availability of Uyuni 2023.03. Most openSUSE mirrors should already have 2023.03, but if you do not see it yet, wait a few hours until your local openSUSE mirror is synced. At https://www.uyuni-project.org/pages/stable-version.html you will find all the resources you need to start working with Uyuni 2023.03, including the release notes, documentation, requirements and setup instructions. This is the list of highlights for this release: - openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3 support as client - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Micro product migration - New products enabled - Monitoring: Grafana update to 8.5.15 - Syncing optional channels from from the WebUI - Subscription warning notifications will now happen weekly - Documentation: New look and feel - Salt 3000 End of Life - Debian 9 End of Life - 'spacewalk-clone-by-date' has been deprecated Remember that Uyuni follows a rolling release planning, so the next version will contain bugfixes for this one and any new features. There will be no maintenance of 2023.03. As always, we hope you will enjoy this new Uyuni version and we invite everyone of you to send us your feedback [1] and of course your patches, if you can contribute. Happy hacking! [1] https://www.uyuni-project.org/pages/contact.html -- Julio González Gil Release Engineer, SUSE Manager and Uyuni jgonzalez(a)suse.com

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IMPORTANT: Patch for Uyuni Server 2023.03 and blank notification page for users with SCC accounts
by Julio Gonzalez 16 Mar '23

16 Mar '23

Hello! Some users reported that after the update to Uyuni 2023.03, the notification page was completely blank [1] [2] If you are affected, you will see notifications on the bell icon at the WebUI, and you will still get e-mail notifications. But if you go to the notifications page, it will render completely blank, with no content at all or errors. Although this should only affect Uyuni users with SCC credentials added to the Setup Wizard and with SCC subscriptions expiring, a previous bug [3] can cause this same problem even for some users without SCC subscriptions if they got such notifications but never removed them. A patch for Uyuni 2022.03 is now available, in case you are affected, so you do not need to wait for the next Uyuni release. You can apply the patch at the Uyuni Server by following the instructions at: https://www.uyuni-project.org/pages/patches.html If you are still on 2023.01 or earlier, update first to 2023.03 normally (make sure you read the release notes, as special steps may be required if you are not on 2023.03 already), and then apply the patch as explained above. Happy hacking! [1] https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/users@lists.uyuni-project.org/mess… [2] https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/issues/6729 [3] https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/issues/6375 -- Julio González Gil Release Engineer, SUSE Manager and Uyuni jgonzalez(a)suse.com

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Frequently receiving "Session expired, please reload the page." error
by Allen Beddingfield 03 Mar '23

03 Mar '23

I'm frequently receiving "Session expired, please reload the page." when trying to log into the web interface of Uyuni, after updating to 2023.01 recently. I can't figure out a pattern, but I keep doing combinations of opening it in a private browser windows on Firefox (that finally started giving the error as well, so I had to switch to Chromium, which sometimes give the error and sometimes works). It always gives the error in Opera. I keep going through a whole dance of clearing cache, trying different browsers, etc.... to get logged in each time, but I'm getting concerned that I may get to a point that I can't log in at all. Any ideas? I first suspected a workstation issue, but it is happening on two systems now(both openSUSE Leap). I have also restarted Uyuni, with no luck. Allen B. -- Allen Beddingfield Systems Engineer Office of Information Technology The University of Alabama Office 205-348-2251 allen(a)ua.edu

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Deploying the proxy using Elemental and Fleet demo video
by Cedric Bosdonnat 03 Mar '23

03 Mar '23

Hi all, In the last community hours I told you I had a video demonstrating the automated deployment of the Uyuni proxy with Rancher's Elemental and Fleet. You can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhSxIcNeYAo If you want to dig further on that topic, here are my notes and setup: https://github.com/cbosdo/elemental-uyuni-proxy/ The git repository used for the fleet bundles is here: https://github.com/cbosdo/fleet-proxy Have fun! I would love to hear if you played with similar things. -- Cedric

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