<html><head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"> <style></style> </head><body bgcolor="white" lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"> <div class="WordSection1"> Jiri – thanks very much! <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> When I compare my /var/cache/rhn/repodata for centos 7 and centos 6 they are way different. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Here you can see the difference in size and the filelists, other and primary files all have the same “packages=0”<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <img width="677" height="256" id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image002.png@01D3167D.66154770"><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> So basically (on the host) I stopped spacewalk - deleted /var/cache/rhn/reposync/centos6-x86_64 and then started spacewalk.<o:p></o:p> I went to the client and executed yum clean all and then a yum repolist – and it still was wrong.<o:p></o:p> But after I waited a few minutes – everything looks right!<o:p></o:p> Apparently it just took a few minutes to populate the repodata summary files.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I am very happy to have signed up for this Spacewalk support mailing list!<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Have a good day,<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Ron<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"> From: Jiří Dostál [mailto:jdostal@redhat.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 10:27 AM To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com; Ron Skantz <Ron.Skantz@barnhardt.net> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Client sees Zero packages from a single repo channel<o:p></o:p> </div> </div> <o:p> </o:p> Alright, good points. Could you please verify that data in "/var/cache/rhn/repodata/" on server-side are correct for given channel? Jiri<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div> Dne 16.8.2017 v 16:12 Ron Skantz napsal(a):<o:p></o:p> </div> <blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"> Some additional information - I have also registered another client and it is showing the same symptoms.<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Both of these clients were registered to a Spacewalk 2.1 host and I have deleted them from there and added them to this new Spacewalk 2.6 host. The channels are the same names in both versions, but then some of them show up fine and this base CentOS 6 channel doesn’t.<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> If nobody else has an idea I may try to recreate the centos-x86_64 channel, but I’m skeptical whether that would actually fix the problem since the centos-x86_64 channel looks totally normal when viewed in the host web UI and it updates correctly with the “/usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync” command.<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> <div> <div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"> From: <a href="mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com">spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com</a> [<a href="mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com">mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com</a>] On Behalf Of Jirí Dostál Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 9:52 AM To: <a href="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com">spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Client sees Zero packages from a single repo channel<o:p></o:p> </div> </div> <o:p></o:p> Hi Ron,<o:p></o:p> <div> it's usually a good thing to run "yum clean all" after registering a client, just to make sure the repository cache is flushed. "yum clean all" should do the thing, if not try to delete it manually in /var/cache/yum/. Next run of "yum repolist" should display package numbers correctly. Regards, Jiri<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> <div> Dne 16.8.2017 v 15:21 Ron Skantz napsal(a):<o:p></o:p> </div> <blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"> When I do a "yum repolist" from a recently registered client it shows the status of 0 packages for one of the repo channels that on the Spacwalk host shows: 6706 packages.<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Why would a single channel show no packages?<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> If you have access to redhat docs then maybe you have been blessed with the answer – it sounds like this link may have the answer: <a href="https://access.redhat.com/solutions/45811"> https://access.redhat.com/solutions/45811</a><o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> I don’t know if images work in this email list but here is the command output example:<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> <img border="0" width="1294" height="191" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D3167C.9B2EFCE0"><o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> <pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre> <pre>Spacewalk-list mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre> <pre><a href="mailto:Spacewalk-list@redhat.com">Spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a><o:p></o:p></pre> <pre><a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list</a><o:p></o:p></pre> </blockquote> <o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p></o:p> <pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre> <pre>Spacewalk-list mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre> <pre><a href="mailto:Spacewalk-list@redhat.com">Spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a><o:p></o:p></pre> <pre><a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list</a><o:p></o:p></pre> </blockquote> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </body></html>