[Spacewalk-list] Pending repo syncs

[Bruce Pennypacker]

Bruce A. Pennypacker wrote:
> Is there any way to see details on pending repo syncs?  When I go to 
> manage a channel and select the option to sync the repo there's no 
> real feedback that I can see to indicate that the action has been 
> submitted or is in progress.  For larger repos I can refresh the 
> channel list and see the number of packages increasing, and when a 
> sync is complete I can see that the last sync time is updated, but 
> that's about all the feedback I see.  I submitted a request to sync a 
> repo a few minutes ago and it hasn't happened yet.  I've been keeping 
> an eye on /var/log/rhn/reposync but haven't seen any new log files 
> yet.  How can I tell if a sync failed for any reason, if it's still 
> scheduled, when it should run, etc?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Bruce

As a followup to myself, I just discovered the following in 
/var/log/rhn/rhn_taskomatic_daemon.log:

INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/05/07 13:55:00 | 2010-05-07 13:55:00,016 
[DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-5] ERROR org.quartz.core.JobRunShell - 
Job Taskomatic Group.com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.RepoSyncTask-12 
threw an unhandled Exception:
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/05/07 13:55:00 | 
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: attempt to create delete event with 
null entity
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/05/07 13:55:00 |       at 
org.hibernate.event.DeleteEvent.<init>(DeleteEvent.java:24)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/05/07 13:55:00 |       at 
org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.delete(SessionImpl.java:744)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/05/07 13:55:00 |       at 
com.redhat.rhn.domain.task.TaskFactory.removeTask(TaskFactory.java:93)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/05/07 13:55:00 |       at 
com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.RepoSyncTask.execute(RepoSyncTask.java:69)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/05/07 13:55:00 |       at 
org.quartz.core.JobRunShell.run(JobRunShell.java:203)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/05/07 13:55:00 |       at 
org.quartz.simpl.SimpleThreadPool$WorkerThread.run(SimpleThreadPool.java:520)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/05/07 13:55:00 | 2010-05-07 13:55:00,017 
[DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-5] ERROR org.quartz.core.ErrorLogger - 
Job (Taskomatic Group.com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.RepoSyncTask-12 
threw an exception.
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/05/07 13:55:00 | org.quartz.SchedulerException: 
Job threw an unhandled exception. [See nested exception: 
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: attempt to create delete event with 
null entity]
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/05/07 13:55:00 |       at 
org.quartz.core.JobRunShell.run(JobRunShell.java:214)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/05/07 13:55:00 |       at 
org.quartz.simpl.SimpleThreadPool$WorkerThread.run(SimpleThreadPool.java:520)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/05/07 13:55:00 | * Nested Exception (Underlying 
Cause) ---------------
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/05/07 13:55:00 | 
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: attempt to create delete event with 
null entity
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/05/07 13:55:00 |       at 
org.hibernate.event.DeleteEvent.<init>(DeleteEvent.java:24)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/05/07 13:55:00 |       at 
org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.delete(SessionImpl.java:744)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/05/07 13:55:00 |       at 
com.redhat.rhn.domain.task.TaskFactory.removeTask(TaskFactory.java:93)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/05/07 13:55:00 |       at 
com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.RepoSyncTask.execute(RepoSyncTask.java:69)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/05/07 13:55:00 |       at 
org.quartz.core.JobRunShell.run(JobRunShell.java:203)
INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/05/07 13:55:00 |       at 
org.quartz.simpl.SimpleThreadPool$WorkerThread.run(SimpleThreadPool.java:520)