Starting Spacewalk osa-dispatcher Shows Error "Not able to Reconnect ERROR: unhandled exception occurred: (can't write str to text stream)." (Doc ID 2295013.1)

Last updated on MAY 04, 2023

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Symptoms

While starting the spacewalk service, the following error is shown when starting the osa-dispatcher service

# /usr/sbin/spacewalk-service start
Starting spacewalk services...
Initializing jabberd processes ...
Starting router: [ OK ]
Starting sm: [ OK ]
Starting c2s: [ OK ]
Starting s2s: [ OK ]
Starting tomcat6: [ OK ]
Waiting for tomcat to be ready ...
Starting httpd: [ OK ]
Starting osa-dispatcher: Spacewalk 3923 2017/07/24 23:05:16 -04:00: ('Not able to reconnect - See https://access.redhat.com/solutions/45332 for possible solutions.\n',)
Spacewalk 3923 2017/07/24 23:05:16 -04:00: ('Error caught:',)

ERROR: unhandled exception occurred: (can't write str to text stream).
[FAILED]
Starting rhn-search...
Starting cobbler daemon: [ OK ]
Starting RHN Taskomatic...
Done.
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