[Spacewalk-list] question about patches pushed slow

[Michiel van Es]

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Subject: [Spacewalk-list] question about patches pushed slow
From: David Nutter <davidn at bioss.sari.ac.uk>
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com <spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
Date: 10/20/2009 11:06 AM

> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 06:27:06AM +0200, Michiel van Es wrote:
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>> Anyone?
>> I also have a problem that CentOS 4 machines don't see updates in
>> spacewalk but when I do an up2date -fu all suddenly all updates are
>> showing up :(
> 
> Something similar happens from time to time here using CentOS
> 5. Usually the updates appear after a while, presumably when the
> client next checks in. If not, an explicit package profile refresh
> fixes it.

In CentOS4 and spacewalk/yum it doesn't..only an up2date - fu works on
the systems..

> 
> Very occasionally, after a package push the updates will initially
> appear on the systems view but then "vanish" again before you have
> chance to apply them. Again, waiting a while or forcing a profile
> refresh gets them back. This only seems to happen with non-errata
> updates for some reason. 

The problem is that a lot of servers were also showing the ? question
mark status. (not checking in).
And I am affraid that it has something to do with the osa-dispatcher not
working correctly (see my other mailinglist item).
Is the osa-dispatcher resonsible for systems getting out of sync or for
not pushing the updates through osad/jabber?

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>> I also found out that the rhn_check command is running on most of the
>> clients but is sitting there waiting for hours (I have to manually kill
>> it and rerun rhn_check -vv to update/pull the package updates.)
> 
> I've never seen that. 

I see it to often..or it takes many hours to complete.
Unfortunately we have a maintenance window of 4 hours (05:00 - 09:00 am)
and in this schedule all servers must be patched.
The probem is that I did not had this problem a couple of spacewalk
releases ago :(

> 
> Regards,
> 
Michiel
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