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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks for the replies. I did narrow down one bug which may have been causing this.<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">RHEL solution pointed me to the https in my server URL possibly causing the problem so I modified this to http and the issue was resolved. This was the solution
url: <a href="https://access.redhat.com/solutions/373953">https://access.redhat.com/solutions/373953</a><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">I think this server url gets populated during the regrhn_ks command? I was just using an example command from the spacewalk instructions.<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">Also, a lot of issues with my installation due to the server not having the FQDN as the hostname, so it seems. This gave me a bit of trouble with the osa-dispatcher.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Alexander Innes<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 16, 2015 4:51 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> spacewalk-list@redhat.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Spacewalk-list] Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: centos6-x86_64. Please verify its path and try again<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">*also yes it needs to be 100% done<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 16 January 2015 at 09:50, Alexander Innes <<a href="mailto:senni@necurity.co.uk" target="_blank">senni@necurity.co.uk</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yup sometimes it hangs when doing the repodata, you can try<br>
rm -rf /var/cache/rhn/repodata/centos_6_whatever<br>
softwarechannel_regenerateyumcache centos_6_whatever<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">yum update<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">failing that<br>
spacewalk-service restart<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 15 January 2015 at 20:09, Paul Robert Marino <<a href="mailto:prmarino1@gmail.com" target="_blank">prmarino1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">After a sync a repodata job executes this generates the repomd file. Sometimes I've seen the repodata job hang if that's the case you can fix it by restarting taskoomatic.<br>
Worse comes to worst you may need to delete the repodata files off the spacewalks server then resync the repo this will force it to regenerate the file from scratch.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:navy">On Jan 15, 2015 1:17 PM, Edsall, William (WJ) <<a href="mailto:WJEdsall@dow.com" target="_blank">WJEdsall@dow.com</a>> wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">After registering a client, I get the following error:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: centos6-x86_64. Please verify its path and try again<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">This error occurs curing a yum search and during rhn_check –vv<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I did complete a sync however a few of the packages failed, so I’m running it again. Does the repo need to be 100% synced before repomd.xml exists?<o:p></o:p></p>
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Thanks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">William<o:p></o:p></p>
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