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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">This is RHN Satellite v5.4.1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Has anyone else seen this behavior with client reporting
</span>“'Error while executing packages action: empty transaction', {})” when attempting system updates<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">I can see that there are updates available for all three of them, but if I do a "yum list updates", nothing shows up. If I set the system at the Satellite to push out the updates, and then run rhn_check from the
clients, it silently fails. The /var/log/up2date log on the client shows repeated entries of "up2date logging into up2date server" followed by "up2date successfully retrieved authentication token from up2date server", but the updates are never transferred.
The /var/log/yum.log file shows the last update coming in on June 05. I ran a tcpdump session during one of the rhn_check runs but it just shows repeated cycles that match those repeating entries in /var/log/up2date, presumably one for each package available
for download.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">“# rhn_check –vvvv” reports “'Error while executing packages action: empty transaction', {})” on the systems. A search of bugzilla showed this error in a Fedora release but not RHEL. The fix was to updated yum
but we are still seeing the issue after manually updating yum to the latest release. RHEL6.1 and RHEL6.2 systems are affected.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<pre style="margin-left:1.0in">D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Name rdonly mode=0x0<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:1.0in">D: read h# 618 Header sanity check: OK<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:1.0in">D: added key gpg-pubkey-fd431d51-4ae0493b to keyring<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:1.0in">D: read h# 619 Header sanity check: OK<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:1.0in">D: added key gpg-pubkey-2fa658e0-45700c69 to keyring<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:1.0in">D: Using legacy gpg-pubkey(s) from rpmdb<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:1.0in">D: read h# 633 Header sanity check: OK<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:1.0in">D: read h# 632 Header sanity check: OK<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:1.0in">D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Name<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:1.0in">D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:1.0in">D: closed db environment /var/lib/rpm<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:1.0in">D: Sending back response((6,), 'Error while executing packages action: empty transaction', {})<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:1.0in">D: do_callpackages.checkNeedUpdate('rhnsd=1',){}<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:1.0in">D: local action status: (0, 'rpm database not modified since last update (or package list recently updated)', {})<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:1.0in">D: rpcServer: Calling XMLRPC registration.welcome_message<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:1.0in">D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Providename<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:1.0in">D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Name<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:1.0in">D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:1.0in">D: closed db environment /var/lib/rpm<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Greg Caetano<br>
Hewlett-Packard Company<br>
Enterprise Group - Alliances, Performance & Solutions COE<br>
Houston TX <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">CCA6.8.405 Office: 281-514-5966<br>
Home Office: 281-547-7852<br>
greg.caetano@hp.com<br>
Red Hat Certified Engineer<br>
RHCE#805007310328754</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red">PTO: August 10 and August 30-31<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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