<div><br>hey brian. i manually installed it on the client side and now it is working. i really appreciate it. THANKS</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Brian Collins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brianc@sedata.com">brianc@sedata.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">The bug is really on the client side, so that's where it needs to go, unfortunately. :)</font></div></div>
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<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>
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<div><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Arial">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 size="2" face="Arial">I just set up a remote command on my machines that installed yum-rhn-plugin specifically.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Short-term, you can do:</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">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 size="2" face="Tahoma"><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" target="_blank">spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Spacewalk-list] Error while executing packages action: empty transaction [[6]]<br>
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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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