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<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve been using the spacewalk-manage-channel-lifecycle tool for a while. Lately I’m having a problem where the back end of spacewalk is failing and causing the tool to blow up with this error:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">spacewalk-manage-channel-lifecycle -c oraclelinux6-x86_64 --promote --workflow=oracle --clear-channel ; date<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thu Jan 28 17:33:58 EST 2016<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">INFO: Parent Source: oraclelinux6-x86_64, destination: ora-preprod-oraclelinux6-x86_64<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">INFO: Clearing all errata from ora-preprod-oraclelinux6-x86_64<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Traceback (most recent call last):<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> File "/usr/local/bin/spacewalk-manage-channel-lifecycle", line 784, in <module><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> merge_channels(parent_source, parent_dest)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> File "/usr/local/bin/spacewalk-manage-channel-lifecycle", line 420, in merge_channels<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> clear_channel(dest_label)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> File "/usr/local/bin/spacewalk-manage-channel-lifecycle", line 500, in clear_channel<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> False)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1199, in __call__<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> return self.__send(self.__name, args)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1489, in __request<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> verbose=self.__verbose<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1243, in request<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Headers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">xmlrpclib.ProtocolError: <ProtocolError for localhost/rpc/api: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have tried poking at log files, but I haven’t found where there seems to be an indication of a problem. Can someone point me to a prioritized list of logs I should be looking at to find the nature of what’s dying on the back end? I
suspect there is a java resource failure or some other error and would like to track it down and fix it rather than resort to manual/scripted channel by channel cloning( which might fail in the same way).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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