[Spacewalk-list] Package update weirdness

[David Nutter]

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 05:24:18PM +1000, McLeod, Matt wrote:
> I'm running 0.8 on CentOS 5.4 with Oracle XE.  The database doesn't seem
> to have maxed out yet (it's at ~3.3GB) and I'm not getting anything that
> looks like an error message.
> 
> Ever since the daily spacewalk-sync cron job updated the CentOS 5 base
> channels to 5.5 I've been seeing unexpected behavior with respect to
> package upgrades.  The SW web interface shows rather fewer than expected
> packages needing upgrade (~20 on most hosts) and "yum update" on the
> hosts show no packages needing upgrade.
> 
> If I unsubscribe a client from all its channels then resubscribe the
> numbers look more reasonable -- 113 on the one I tested -- but "yum
> update" still doesn't think there's anything to upgrade.
> 
> I've tried forcing the issue with yum ("yum clean all", "yum
> check-update") but it makes no difference.
> 
> I've tried scheduling the updates via the web interface then doing a
> forced checkin ("rhn_check"), likewise no updates are applied.
> 
> Finally, I've tried deleting the client from SW and then force
> re-registering.  Same result.
> 
> I'm not sure where to go from here.  Does anyone have any suggestions?

It sounds like Taskomatic is not rebuilding the repository
metadata. Check your taskomatic logs in /var/log/rhn and also check
that the package cobbler-web is not installed as I believe that was
causing problems for others on the list. 

You can force an update of repository metadata by deleting the files
in /var/cache/rhn/repodata/.

Regards,

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