Firstboot fails to register server with SUSE Customer Center

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 Service Pack 1 (SLES 12 SP1)

Situation

The yast2-firstboot RPM package is installed. The section of /etc/YaST2/firstboot.xml for Customer Center was changed to:


<module>
  <label>Customer Center</label>
  <name>inst_suse_register</name>
  <enabled config:type="boolean">true</enabled>
</module>

An error dialog states: "Calling the YaST module inst_suse_register has failed. More information can be found near the end of the '/var/log/YaST2/y2log' file."

The /var/log/YaST2/y2log files shows:

<3> server(1140) [Interpreter] modules/ProductControl.rb:1360 Can't find YCP client component inst_suse_register: No such file or directory

Running ls -l /usr/share/YaST2/clients/inst_suse* fails to show any inst_suse_register module, but does show inst_scc.rb and scc.rb modules.

Using


<module>
  <label>Customer Center</label>
  <name>inst_scc</name>
  <enabled config:type="boolean">true</enabled>
</module>

fails with the error:

"The base product was not found, check your system. Make sure a product is installed and /etc/products.d/baseproduct is a symlink pointing to the base product .prod file."

However, ls -l /etc/products.d/ shows baseproduct is symlinked to SLES.prod.

Using


<module>
  <label>Customer Center</label>
  <name>scc</name>
  <enabled config:type="boolean">true</enabled>
</module>

launches the customer registration dialog, but you cannot select the Next button to finish the configuration.

Resolution

Reported to Engineering. There is not really a work around. You will need to manually configure the client machine by running yast scc or SUSEConnect.

Additional Information

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