# rhn\_register module does not work on RHEL5 hosts **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [June 13, 2013, 8:06am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/rhn-register-module-does-not-work-on-rhel5-hosts/12954 "2013-06-13T08:06:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Edgars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Edgars](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Edgars)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2013, 8:06am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/rhn-register-module-does-not-work-on-rhel5-hosts/12954/1 "2013-06-13T08:06:20Z")
Hi list I am trying to register my RHEL5 hosts to RHN. Here is an example what I do: > ansible HostA -kK -u admin -m rhn\_register -a “state=present username=YYYY password=XXXX” And the output: > HostA | FAILED =\> failed to parse: > Traceback (most recent call last): > File “/home/admin/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1371109421.04-39163328736735/rhn\_register”, line 1264, in ? > main() > File “/home/admin/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1371109421.04-39163328736735/rhn\_register”, line 349, in main > rhn.register(module.params[‘enable\_eus’] == True, activationkey) > File “/home/admin/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1371109421.04-39163328736735/rhn\_register”, line 263, in register > run\_command(register\_cmd) > File “/home/admin/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1371109421.04-39163328736735/rhn\_register”, line 101, in run\_command > stderr=subprocess.STDOUT) > File “/usr/lib64/python2.4/subprocess.py”, line 550, in **init** > errread, errwrite) > File “/usr/lib64/python2.4/subprocess.py”, line 996, in \_execute\_child > raise child\_exception > OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory I have all required packages on remote host: > [root@HostA ~]# rpm -qa | grep rhn-setup > rhn-setup-0.4.20-86.el5 > [root@HostA ~]# which rhnreg\_ks > /usr/sbin/rhnreg\_ks > [root@HostA ~]# uname -a > Linux HostA 2.6.18-348.6.1.el5 #1 SMP Fri Apr 26 09:21:26 EDT 2013 x86\_64 x86\_64 x86\_64 GNU/Linux > [root@HostA ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release > Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.9 (Tikanga) > ansible --version ansible 1.3 I guess folks who writemodules must be informed that RHEL5 requires full path to any binary, otherwise it cannot find it, for some reason. Thanks Edgars ---
**Author:** ![Edgars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Edgars](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Edgars)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2013, 9:50am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/rhn-register-module-does-not-work-on-rhel5-hosts/12954/2 "2013-06-13T09:50:19Z")
And one more thing: This module is also incompatible with Python 2.4.3 (which is shipped with RHEL5.9). In particular line 184: > return url.netloc.replace(‘xmlrpc.’,‘’) Python 2.4.3 does not support tuple attributes. Here is the example on system with Python 2.4.3: > > > > url = urlparse.urlparse(‘[https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC](https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC)’) > > > > print url > > > > (‘https’, ‘[xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com](http://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com)’, ‘/XMLRPC’, ‘’, ‘’, ‘’) > > > > print url.netloc.replace(‘xmlrpc.’,‘’) > > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > > > File “”, line 1, in ? > > > > AttributeError: ‘tuple’ object has no attribute ‘netloc’ And here is the same example on system with Python 2.7.3 > > > > url=urlparse.urlparse(‘[https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC](https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC)’) > > > > print url > > > > ParseResult(scheme=‘https’, netloc=‘[xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com](http://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com)’, path=‘/XMLRPC’, params=‘’, query=‘’, fragment=‘’) > > > > print url.netloc.replace(‘xmlrpc.’,‘’) > > > > [rhn.redhat.com](http://rhn.redhat.com) Edgars ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2013, 11:10am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/rhn-register-module-does-not-work-on-rhel5-hosts/12954/3 "2013-06-13T11:10:30Z")
Thanks. Is this something you would like to submit a pull request for? If not, please file a github ticket. ---
**Author:** ![Edgars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Edgars](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Edgars)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2013, 11:42am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/rhn-register-module-does-not-work-on-rhel5-hosts/12954/4 "2013-06-13T11:42:23Z")
Created tickets. Thanks Edgars ---
**Author:** ![Jurrien\_Bloemen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc79bd/32.png) [@Jurrien\_Bloemen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jurrien_Bloemen)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 9:45am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/rhn-register-module-does-not-work-on-rhel5-hosts/12954/5 "2013-10-14T09:45:19Z")
In version 1.4 this is also not working. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 12:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/rhn-register-module-does-not-work-on-rhel5-hosts/12954/6 "2013-10-14T12:32:49Z")
Unfortunately “Not working” is not a helpful bug report because it doesn’t state _how_ something is not working. Please make sure there is a bug report that includes steps to reproduce the problem, including a sample playbook and output. This needs to be filed on the github tracker at [github.com/ansible/ansible](http://github.com/ansible/ansible). Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Jurrien\_Bloemen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc79bd/32.png) [@Jurrien\_Bloemen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jurrien_Bloemen)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 12:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/rhn-register-module-does-not-work-on-rhel5-hosts/12954/7 "2013-10-14T12:35:45Z")
I can reproduce it so I will report it at github.