[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. 

When I start the ping, I see the following on the server:
/var/log/rhn/osa-dispatcher.log:

2009/10/20 11:51:27 +02:00 12514 0.0.0.0:
rhnSQL/driver_cx_Oracle.connect('Connecting to database', 'xe')
2009/10/20 11:51:27 +02:00 12514 0.0.0.0: osad/jabber_lib.__init__
2009/10/20 11:55:05 +02:00 12514 0.0.0.0:
osad/jabber_lib.print_message('socket error',)
2009/10/20 11:55:05 +02:00 12514 0.0.0.0:
osad/jabber_lib.print_message('Could not connect to jabber server',
'devmx01.buro.info.nl')
2009/10/20 11:55:05 +02:00 12514 0.0.0.0:
osad/jabber_lib.setup_connection('Could not connect to any jabber server',)
2009/10/20 11:55:05 +02:00 12514 0.0.0.0: osad/jabber_lib.main('Unable
to connect to jabber servers, sleeping 10 seconds',)

But nothing in the verbose osad client..
I suspect it has everyhting to do that osa-dispatcher and jabber are not
working correctly.
But I want to find out WHY osa-dispatcher isn't correctly connecting to
my jabber service.
How can I check that?

> 
> 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.
> 
> Regards,

Regards,

Michiel

> 
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