[Spacewalk-list] yum not seeing updates

[Michiel van Es | Info.nl]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] yum not seeing updates
From: Joshua Roys <joshua.roys at gtri.gatech.edu>
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com <spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
Date: 06/17/2010 02:37 PM

>> [root at fac03 rhn]# /etc/init.d/taskomatic status
>> RHN Taskomatic is running (16305).
>>
>> What else could be checked?
>>
>> Kind regards.
>>
>> Michiel
>>
>
> Hello,
>
> Let's try this:
>
> - delete the yum repodata for a channel
>      server# rm -rf /var/cache/rhn/repodata/$channel
> - tail the taskomatic log file
>      server# tail -fn0 /var/log/rhn/rhn_taskomatic_daemon.log
> - get taskomatic to attempt to write out the repodata again
>      client# yum clean all
>      client# yum list kernel
> - wait a minute and see if any errors appear in the log

Hi Joshua,

The following is showing up in the logfiles:

on the server:

[root at fac03 /]# tail -fn0 /var/log/rhn/rhn_taskomatic_daemon.log


INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/06/17 14:54:00 | 2010-06-17 14:54:00,053 
[DefaultQuartz 
                    Scheduler_Worker-9] ERROR 
com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.CobblerSyncTask - Runti 
 
meExceptioneError trying to sync to cobbler: XmlRpcException calling 
cobbler.
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/06/17 14:54:00 | java.lang.RuntimeException: 
XmlRpcExce 
                ption calling cobbler.
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/06/17 14:54:00 |       at 
com.redhat.rhn.manager.kickst 
 
art.cobbler.CobblerXMLRPCHelper.invokeMethod(CobblerXMLRPCHelper.java:72)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/06/17 14:54:00 |       at 
com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.tas 
 
k.CobblerSyncTask.execute(CobblerSyncTask.java:76)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/06/17 14:54:00 |       at 
com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.tas 
 
k.SingleThreadedTestableTask.execute(SingleThreadedTestableTask.java:54)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/06/17 14:54:00 |       at 
org.quartz.core.JobRunShell.r 
                                   un(JobRunShell.java:203)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/06/17 14:54:00 |       at 
org.quartz.simpl.SimpleThread 
 
Pool$WorkerThread.run(SimpleThreadPool.java:520)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/06/17 14:54:00 | Caused by: 
redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcExcep 
                                 tion: The response could not be parsed.
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/06/17 14:54:00 |       at 
redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClient. 
                                   handleResponse(XmlRpcClient.java:434)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/06/17 14:54:00 |       at 
redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClient. 
                                   endCall(XmlRpcClient.java:376)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/06/17 14:54:00 |       at 
redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClient. 
                                   invoke(XmlRpcClient.java:165)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/06/17 14:54:00 |       at 
com.redhat.rhn.manager.kickst 
 
art.cobbler.CobblerXMLRPCHelper.invokeMethod(CobblerXMLRPCHelper.java:69)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/06/17 14:54:00 |       ... 4 more
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/06/17 14:54:00 | Caused by: 
java.io.IOException: Server 
                                  returned HTTP response code: 503 for 
URL: http://fac03.hf.info.nl:80/cobbler_ap 
                                                i
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/06/17 14:54:00 |       at 
sun.net.www.protocol.http.Htt 
 
pURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1261)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/06/17 14:54:00 |       at 
redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcClient. 
                                   handleResponse(XmlRpcClient.java:420)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/06/17 14:54:00 |       ... 7 more
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/06/17 14:54:00 | 2010-06-17 14:54:00,054 
[DefaultQuartz 
                    Scheduler_Worker-9] ERROR 
com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.CobblerSyncTask - Not r 
                                                            e-throwing 
any more errors.


on the node:

root at mwv07 ~]# yum list kernel
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, rhnplugin
Config time: 0.099
Yum Version: 3.2.22
Setting up Package Sacks
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: 
centos5. Please verify its path and try again


The files on the server:

[root at fac03 centos5]# pwd
/var/cache/rhn/repodata/centos5

[root at fac03 centos5]# ll
total 32236
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  8272854 Jun 17 15:01 filelists.xml.gz.new
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23395376 Jun 17 15:01 other.xml.gz.new
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1292890 Jun 17 15:00 primary.xml.gz.new



>
> Josh
>

Michiel