<div dir="ltr">Try running "rhn-profile-sync" then "yum clean metadata" on the client you are trying to update. Then schedule the update again and see if you get the same results. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Erik Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:erikj@gwu.edu" target="_blank">erikj@gwu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Hi Everyone,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><b>Synopsis:</b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Updates available</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Apply Errata</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">run rhn_check -vvv or yum update</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">rhn_check says transaction list empty, or package already installed</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">yum update says nothing is available.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Symptoms persist after repo sync, yum clean all, yum clean expire-cache</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">I am a recent spacewalk user, just this week successfully deployed spacewalk 2.0 (Oracles variant) with an Oracle DB backend. I am having trouble deploying patches, however, and the following errors entail why. All that I have been able to find with my Google-Fu are errors dating back to <1.5 versions of spacewalk, and issues with yum-rhn-plugin. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Being that I am new to spacewalk, after banging at the logs for a few days, I am still stumped and scratching my head on these errors. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Any assistance is greatly appreciated. Thank you.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">I have synced all my repos at this point, and everything appears, on the surface, to look great.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><b>Repos</b>:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default">oraclelinux6-x86_64 | <a href="http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/latest/x86_64/" target="_blank">http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/latest/x86_64/</a></div><div class="gmail_default">oraclelinux6-x86_64-mysql | <a href="http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/MySQL/x86_64/" target="_blank">http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/MySQL/x86_64/</a></div><div class="gmail_default">oraclelinux6-x86_64-server | <a href="http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/spacewalk20/server/x86_64/" target="_blank">http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/spacewalk20/server/x86_64/</a></div><div class="gmail_default">oraclelinux6-x86_64-playground | <a href="http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/playground/latest/x86_64/" target="_blank">http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/playground/latest/x86_64/</a></div><div class="gmail_default">oraclelinux6-x86_64-addons | <a href="http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/addons/x86_64/" target="_blank">http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/addons/x86_64/</a></div><div class="gmail_default">oracle_6_uek3_x86_64 | <a href="http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/UEKR3/latest/x86_64" target="_blank">http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/UEKR3/latest/x86_64</a></div><div class="gmail_default">puppetlabs_el6_x86_64 | <a href="http://yum.puppetlabs.com/el/6Client/products/x86_64/" target="_blank">http://yum.puppetlabs.com/el/6Client/products/x86_64/</a></div><div class="gmail_default">oraclelinux6-x86_64-uek | <a href="http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/UEK/latest/x86_64/" target="_blank">http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/UEK/latest/x86_64/</a></div><div class="gmail_default">epel_6_x86_64 | <a href="http://mirror.umd.edu/fedora/epel/6Server/x86_64/" target="_blank">http://mirror.umd.edu/fedora/epel/6Server/x86_64/</a></div><div class="gmail_default">oracle_uln_6_x86_64 | uln:///ol6_x86_64_latest</div><div class="gmail_default">oraclelinux6-x86_64-client | <a href="http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/spacewalk20/client/x86_64/" target="_blank">http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/spacewalk20/client/x86_64/</a></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">rhn_check -vvv on client</div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">yum-rhn-plugin-2.0.1-1.el6.noarch</div><div><div><font face="georgia, serif">spacewalk-client-repo-2.0-3.el6.noarch</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">spacewalk-oscap-0.0.16-1.el6.noarch</font></div></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">D: More recent version of package kernel-uek-0:2.6.32-400.36.12.el6uek.x86_64 is already installed</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">D: read h# 8 Header sanity check: OK</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">D: read h# 529 Header sanity check: OK</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><b>D: More recent version of package kernel-uek-firmware-0:2.6.32-400.36.12.el6uek.noarch is already installed</b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">D: read h# 620 Header sanity check: OK</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><b>D: More recent version of package kernel-uek-devel-0:2.6.32-400.36.12.el6uek.x86_64 is already installed</b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Name</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">D: closed db environment /var/lib/rpm</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><b>D: Sending back response((6,), 'Error while executing packages action: empty transaction', {})</b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">D: do_call packages.checkNeedUpdate('rhnsd=1',){}</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">D: local action status: (0, 'rpm database not modified since last update (or package list recently updated)', {})</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">D: rpcServer: Calling XMLRPC registration.welcome_message</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Providename</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Name</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">D: closed db environment /var/lib/rpm</div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Please see attached screenshots. </div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Thank you for any assistance, I look forward to working with spacewalk and possibly assisting in development.</div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><img src="cid:ii_14a655717c794fc3" alt="Inline image 2" width="485" height="272">-</span><br></div></div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Erik E. Johnson</div><div>Division of Information Technology</div><div>The George Washington University</div></div></div></div> </div> <br>_______________________________________________<br> Spacewalk-list mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Spacewalk-list@redhat.com">Spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a><br> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list</a><br></blockquote></div><br></div>