[Spacewalk-list] Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository

[Tom Brown]

> I am facing a similar problem on a 1.0 install that is using proxies.
> On _one_ of my proxies my RHEL 6 clients are reporting
>
> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for
> repository: rhel-6-x86_64-01122010. Please verify its path and try
> again
>
> However on clients behind other proxies they work fine, all my clients
> are behind proxies, so i think this is related to that proxy somehow
> but other channels work fine this only seems to effect rhel6 channels
> on this one proxy.
>
> Has anyone got any more clues as to what might cause this as
> suggestions in other threads dont seem to be the case here. No errors
> in any ssl_request or ssl_error logs and no taskomatic errors,
> although as the same channels work fine fro other proxies i did not
> expect to find anything there.

looking into this more it appears to be an SSL error of somekind but
is slightly odd in that RHEL5 clients do not suffer the same issue
only RHEL6 as if i use http rather than https in the up2date config it
works fine for RHEL6.

perhaps what complicates this slightly is that my proxies are in HA
pairs meaning only 1 takes traffic at a time and the one that is
active is the one that holds the VIP, where the VIP and the proxy
services are controlled using heartbeat. The VIP address is what is in
up2date config and this has never been an issue until RHEL6. The cert
that is used on the proxies has the FQDN of the spacewalk server and
not the FQDN of the proxy VIP but registrations and https api calls
through the proxy work just fine so i am slightly stumped.

for RHEL5 clients, that work just fine, i see the following in the
ssl_request_log of the proxy

[23/Dec/2010:22:29:32 +0000] xx.xx.xx.xx TLSv1 DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
"POST /XMLRPC HTTP/1.1" 126
[23/Dec/2010:22:29:32 +0000] xx.xx.xx.xx TLSv1 DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
"POST /XMLRPC HTTP/1.1" 906
[23/Dec/2010:22:29:32 +0000] xx.xx.xx.xx TLSv1 DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
"POST /XMLRPC HTTP/1.1" 1093
[23/Dec/2010:22:29:32 +0000] xx.xx.xx.xx TLSv1 DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA "GET
/XMLRPC/GET-REQ/rhel-5-x86_64-01122010/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1"
871

for a RHEL6 client that fails i get the following

[23/Dec/2010:22:27:55 +0000] xx.xx.xx.xx TLSv1 DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
"POST /XMLRPC HTTP/1.1" 905
[23/Dec/2010:22:27:55 +0000] xx.xx.xx.xx TLSv1 DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
"POST /XMLRPC HTTP/1.1" 1087
[23/Dec/2010:22:27:57 +0000] xx.xx.xx.xx TLSv1 DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
"POST /XMLRPC HTTP/1.1" 905
[23/Dec/2010:22:27:57 +0000] xx.xx.xx.xx TLSv1 DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
"POST /XMLRPC HTTP/1.1" 905
[23/Dec/2010:22:27:57 +0000] xx.xx.xx.xx TLSv1 DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
"POST /XMLRPC HTTP/1.1" 905

so as you can see the GET for the repomd.xml never happens, and the
client reports

Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for
repository: rhel-6-x86_64-01122010. Please verify its path and try
again

anyone have any clues as to how i can debug this further?

thanks