[Spacewalk-list] error pushing package update to spacewalk 0.2

[David Nutter]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:41:37AM -0700, Sean Allin wrote:
> I'm having an issue on pushing a package update up to spacewalk for 
> libtiff-devel for CentOS.
> The spacewalk server is an update from 0.1 to 0.2. Following is the log 
> message:
> 
> Uploading package 
> /mnt/sw-repo/CENTOS/centos/5/updates/i386/RPMS/libtiff-devel-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.i386.rpm
> Using POST request
> Internal server error 500 Internal Server Error
> Error pushing 
> /mnt/sw-repo/CENTOS/centos/5/updates/i386/RPMS/libtiff-devel-3.8.2-7.el5_2.2.i386.rpm: Error 500Error Message:
>     Package upload failed: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 
>     '/var/satellite/redhat/1/a27/libtiff-devel'
> Error Class Code: 50
> Error Class Info: Invalid information uploaded to the server (500)
> Waiting 4 seconds and trying again...
> Giving up after 3 attempts
> 
> 
> All other package updates worked ok. Any suggestions on debugging?

Check the permissions on the /var/satellite/redhat directory and
subdirectories. If you ran /usr/sbin/update-packages as root, the
apache:apache permissions required for the upload to work will have been
replaced with root:root. 

I have been bitten by that issue just today, in fact :)

Regards,

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