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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The bug is really on the client side, so that's where it needs to go, unfortunately. :)</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> James McCabe<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tue 9/13/2011 6:58 PM<BR><B>To:</B> spacewalk-list@redhat.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Spacewalk-list] Error while executing packages action: emptytransaction [[6]]<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV>thanks for the quick response Brian. the funny thing about all of this is that that was the pkg i was trying to install LOL... now i did manually install it with yum on the sat server itself but i did not install it on the client yet . does it have to be on both of them for the update to work from the sat server? i will yum it on the clients tomorrow and see if that fixes it. <BR><BR>once again, thanks for your input it is highly appreciated :-D<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Brian Collins <SPAN><<A href="mailto:brianc@sedata.com">brianc@sedata.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Yep. There was a recent update to yum-rhn-plugin that introduced a bug that causes this exact problem (version 0.5.4-22.el5_7.1). The long-term solution is to get the version of yum-rhn-plugin that was put out this week (version 0.5.4-22.el5_7.2).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I just set up a remote command on my machines that installed yum-rhn-plugin specifically.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Short-term, you can do:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-yum clean all</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-rm -rf /var/cache/yum/*</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-rhn_check -v</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Funny note about the bug: it is only triggered by running 'rhn_check' with no options. Adding any number of '-v' after the command doesn't trigger it.</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> James McCabe<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tue 9/13/2011 4:19 PM<BR><B>To:</B> <A href="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com">spacewalk-list@redhat.com</A><BR><B>Subject:</B> [Spacewalk-list] Error while executing packages action: empty transaction [[6]]<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>my updates are failing when i try to update my satellite clients using my redhat satellite server running rhel 5.7. I schedule the event and after it gets picked up, it fails with the error </DIV>
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<DIV>i am able to run the yum update on the client and it will perform the updates but when going through the satellite server it errors out. </DIV>
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<DIV>any ideas??</DIV>
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