[Spacewalk-list] taskomatic repobuilding attempt 2

[Justin Sherrill]

On 6/24/10 10:18 PM, Andreas Hamberger wrote:
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>> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-
>> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Andreas Hamberger
>> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 11:29 AM
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>> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] taskomatic repobuilding attempt 2
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>>> Since I've got an EPEL channel with over 5000 packages at the moment
>>> which builds fine I suspect you've just got a "bad" taskomatic job in
>>> the rhnTaskQueue table, which is leading to this "delete with null
>>> entity" error.
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>>> If you stop spacewalk, delete the contents of rhnTaskQueue and start
>>> it up again then you may find that taskomatic starts working again.
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>> Thanks for your answer. I did exactly this and it still stops in the
>> middle of creating the xml files. I had 3 rows in there that are now
>> deleted. And now there is nothing in there, I redid it twice. For some
>> reason taskomatic still stops in the middle of creating the repo files.
>> Any more help is appreciated. Iw as thinking to increase the allocated
>> memory for the java process. Could that make a difference?
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> I have basically now written a few scripts that will create the repomd files from scratch. I think for the time being I will not use taskomatic for creating repodata. Seems too slow and buggy.
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> If anyone is interested in those scripts let me know.
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Hi Andreas,

If you are still willing to debug the issue,  I'd love for you to check 
/var/log/rhn/rhn_taskomatic_daemon.log for errors.

That should provide a clue as to what went wrong.

Thanks!

-Justin