<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>I am new to the rollback functionality of Spacewalk 1.9 and experimenting with it for the first time. I have historically used VMware snapshots as my rollback mechanism, but we purchased a company that has a ton of physical servers.</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I found my way to system set manager and tagged a test system for system rollback. Then I went to system rollback and selected the tag name I just created. I ran a rhn_client -vv on the server I was trying to rollback and I get the dump below. <br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color:
transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">From what I can tell, it tried to roll back to the former rpm package but couldn't since the old package wasn't in any of my channels.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Is this the right way to rollback packages with Spacewalk? Is there a better way that works?<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, rhnplugin<br>D: rpcServer: Calling XMLRPC up2date.listChannels<br>This system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or Red Hat Satellite.<br>Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile<br> * base: mirror.cogentco.com<br> * epel: mirror.compevo.com<br> * extras: dallas.tx.mirror.xygenhosting.com<br> * updates: mirrordenver.fdcservers.net<br>Checking for new repos for mirrors<br>D: Searching for installed package to remove: ('device-mapper-multipath-0:0.4.7-59.el5.i386',)<br>D: Found 1 package(s) to remove<br>D: Searching for installed package to remove: ('e2fsprogs-0:1.39-36.el5_9.i386',)<br>D: Found 1 package(s) to remove<br>D: Searching for installed package to remove: ('e2fsprogs-libs-0:1.39-36.el5_9.i386',)<br>D: Found 1
package(s) to remove<br>D: Searching for installed package to remove: ('glibc-0:2.5-118.el5_10.2.i686',)<br>D: Found 1 package(s) to remove<br>D: Searching for installed package to remove: ('glibc-common-0:2.5-118.el5_10.2.i386',)<br>D: Found 1 package(s) to remove<br>D: Searching for installed package to remove: ('gnupg-0:1.4.5-18.el5_10.1.i386',)<br>D: Found 1 package(s) to remove<br>D: Searching for installed package to remove: ('grub-0:0.97-13.11.el5_10.1.i386',)<br>D: Found 1 package(s) to remove<br>D: Searching for installed package to remove: ('kernel-0:2.6.18-371.4.1.el5.i686',)<br>D: Found 1 package(s) to remove<br>D: Searching for installed package to remove: ('kpartx-0:0.4.7-59.el5.i386',)<br>D: Found 1 package(s) to remove<br>D: Searching for installed package to remove: ('libgcrypt-0:1.4.4-7.el5_10.i386',)<br>D: Found 1 package(s) to remove<br>D: Searching for installed package to remove: ('libjpeg-0:6b-38.i386',)<br>D: Found 1 package(s)
to remove<br>D: Searching for installed package to remove: ('mkinitrd-0:5.1.19.6-81.el5_10.i386',)<br>D: Found 1 package(s) to remove<br>D: Searching for installed package to remove: ('nash-0:5.1.19.6-81.el5_10.i386',)<br>D: Found 1 package(s) to remove<br>D: Searching for installed package to remove: ('net-tools-0:1.60-83.el5_10.i386',)<br>D: Found 1 package(s) to remove<br>D: Searching for installed package to remove: ('nscd-0:2.5-118.el5_10.2.i386',)<br>D: Found 1 package(s) to remove<br>D: Searching for installed package to remove: ('nspr-0:4.10.2-2.el5_10.i386',)<br>D: Found 1 package(s) to remove<br>D: Searching for installed package to remove: ('nss-0:3.15.3-4.el5_10.i386',)<br>D: Found 1 package(s) to remove<br>D: Searching for installed package to remove: ('nss-tools-0:3.15.3-4.el5_10.i386',)<br>D: Found 1 package(s) to remove<br>D: Searching for installed package to remove: ('openssl-0:0.9.8e-27.el5_10.1.i686',)<br>D: Found 1 package(s) to
remove<br>D: Searching for installed package to remove: ('tzdata-0:2013i-2.el5.i386',)<br>D: Found 1 package(s) to remove<br>D: Sending back response((6,), 'Error while executing packages action: Cannot find package :device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7-46.el5_7.1.i386 in any of enabled repositories.', {})<br>D: do_call packages.checkNeedUpdate('rhnsd=1',){}<br>D: local action status: (0, 'rpm database not modified since last update (or package list recently updated)', {})<br>D: rpcServer: Calling XMLRPC registration.welcome_message<br></div></div></body></html>