Certificate validation issue during Spacewalk install

Error

For some really annoying reason Spacewalk failed to populate the database during the initial setup.

[root@spacewalk ~]# spacewalk-setup --disconnected --external-db
** Database: Setting up database connection for PostgreSQL backend.
Hostname (leave empty for local)? 
Database? dbnamehere
Username? usernamehere
Password? 
** Database: Populating database.
The Database has schema.  Would you like to clear the database [Y]? Y
** Database: Clearing database.
** Database: Shutting down spacewalk services that may be using DB.
** Database: Services stopped.  Clearing DB.
** Database: Re-populating database.
*** Progress: ##################################
* Setting up users and groups.
** GPG: Initializing GPG and importing key.
* Performing initial configuration.
* Activating Spacewalk.
** Loading Spacewalk Certificate.
** Verifying certificate locally.
** Activating Spacewalk.
There was a problem validating the satellite certificate: 1

Fix

Make sure your user’s database password does not have special characters!

Tags: [ centos ]

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