[Spacewalk-list] question about patches pushed slow

[Michiel van Es]

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Subject: Re: [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 11:47 AM

> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:32:39AM +0200, Michiel van Es wrote:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> osa-dispatcher just gives the client systems a kick when there are
> things to do, starting rhn_check if need be. You can start the osad
> daemon in the foreground (osad -N -vvvv or similar) then send a ping
> to the system to see it do its stuff. Very helpful when debugging
> Jabber connection issues. 

You mean on the clients right?
There is no osad running on the server.
And you mean a ping from the client to the server via spacewalk?

> 
> If osad is not running for whatever reason the clients will still wait
> until rhnsd checks in and then if there are pending actions rhn_check
> is invoked. Maybe start both rhnsd and rhn_check in the foreground on
> a client and watch their debugging output during a "normal" scheduled
> check in - that might give you a clue why rhn_check is hanging.

Hmm I think it has all to do with the not working osad connections.
The /etc/init.d/osa-dispatcher start takes a lot of time..also running
the /usr/sbin/osa-dispatcher -v does not provide any verbose info..

> 
> Regards,
> 
Michiel
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