<HTML><HEAD></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV id=idOWAReplyText87168> <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> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I just set up a remote command on my machines that installed yum-rhn-plugin specifically.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <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> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <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> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></DIV> <DIV> <HR> <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> spacewalk-list@redhat.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Spacewalk-list] Error while executing packages action: empty transaction [[6]]<BR></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV> <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> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Client execution returned "Error while executing packages action: empty transaction [[6]]" (code -1)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <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> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>any ideas??</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks </DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>