rhn_channel task failing - internal error 500 returned from Satellite server

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I’m having problems using rhn_channel to subscribe to channels

  • name: enable rhn chans
    rhn_channel: name={{ item }} url=https://internal.sat.server/rpc/api user=xxx password=xxx sysname={{ ansible_hostname }}
    with_items:
  • els-packages
  • epel-6-x86_64
  • rhel-x86_64-server-optional-6
  • rhel-x86_64-server-supplementary-6
  • rhn-tools-rhel-x86_64-server-6

When I run the playbook, I get:

TASK: [enable rhn chans] ******************************************************
fatal: [rhel6vm3] => failed to parse: Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1392040912.39-59291125339369/rhn_channel”, line 1176, in
main()
File “/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1392040912.39-59291125339369/rhn_channel”, line 137, in main
subscribe_channels(channelname, client, session, systname, sys_id)
File “/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1392040912.39-59291125339369/rhn_channel”, line 79, in subscribe_channels
return client.channel.software.setSystemChannels(session, sys_id, c)
File “/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py”, line 1199, in call
return self.__send(self.__name, args)
File “/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py”, line 1489, in __request
verbose=self.__verbose
File “/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py”, line 1243, in request
headers
xmlrpclib.ProtocolError: <ProtocolError for internal.sat.server/rpc/api: 500 Internal Server Error>

FATAL: all hosts have already failed – aborting

When the system is already subscribed to a channel that’s in the listed items, the return result is “OK” - this is expected. The user does have appropriate credentials to modify channel subscriptions - I login to Satellite to do this manually as needed. Am I missing something?

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Can you find out anything from the Satellite logs about what the 500 error was?

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Have tried restarting satellite? Some updates require this.
Which version of satellite is this?