[Pulp-list] Error: database disk image is malformed when syncing EPEL

[John Matthews]

----- Original Message -----
> Hi,
> 
> Carried out a quick bugzilla search and couldn't see anything
> immediately apparent.
> 
> Have a pulp instance here on:
> pulp-0.0.254-8.el6.noarch
> grinder-0.0.131-1.el6.noarch
> gofer-0.63-1.el6.noarch
> 
> I have sync'd EPEL from
> http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/
> and when a search is carried out get the error:
> 
> epel_6_64/pkgtags                                        |  302 B
>     00:00
> Error: database disk image is malformed
> 
> I've tried using pulp-admin repo remove_metadata --id=epel_6_64
> --mdtype=pkgtags but it doesn't appear to remove the metadata.....
> 
> Any ideas to start going down to debug - can anyone else replicate?
> The system is a fully updates Centos 6.2 instance.
> 
> James
> 
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Hi James,

I recreated the issue you reported and filed a new bug here:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=782490


Would you please read the bug over and add any extra information which may help?

As a work around you could try running with --preserve_metadata, this way Pulp will use the existing metadata from EPEL.  (I did a quick test and the EPEL metadata looked OK.)


The steps I followed are below to recreate.
Re-created with Pulp 0.258 on el6:
pulp-admin repo create --id epel_6_64 --feed http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/
pulp-admin repo sync --id epel_6_64 -F
Registered an el6 consumer to this repo

3) yum search vim
Loaded plugins: amazon-id, pulp-profile-update, rhui-lb, security
epel_6_64                                                                                                                 | 4.1 kB     00:00     
epel_6_64/primary_db                                                                                                      | 4.0 MB     00:00     
epel/pkgtags                                                                                                              |  323 B     00:00     
epel_6_64/pkgtags                                                                                                         |  306 B     00:00     
Error: database disk image is malformed


Thanks,
John