[Spacewalk-list] Pulling my hair out to get spacewalk working

[Brent Bolin]

I've been trying to get spacewalk working for about a week and a half.
 Wasn't sure if installing on x86_64 or i386 was the issue.  Still not
sure about x86_64 but do have it working on i386 Centos.  Both clients
and servers are running in an ESX environment.

Odd things we're happening.  When I would go to resync repos I would
see additional packages being installed in the parent channel:

Base
Updates

When I would do yum updates manually from the client was having all
kinds of dependence problems.

Now when I look at the packages in the web interface I have about 3
times the number for base and about 140 additional updates.

"yum -v repolist" also shows this


Looks to me like the web interface was crashing.  When I finally did
it manually -

spacewalk-repo-sync --channel centos-5.5-64-bit-updates

Things started working.  Note however even this crashed a couple of times -

python: ./rpmio_internal.h:502: c2f: Assertion `fd && fd->magic ==
0x04463138' failed.
ORA-24550: signal received: [si_signo=6] [si_errno=0] [si_code=-6]
[si_int=2097798] [si_ptr=0x200286] [si_addr=0x2d81]
kpedbg_dmp_stack()+297<-kpeDbgCrash()+75Cannot open
/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client/lib/libclntsh.so.11.1 for reading:
errno=24
<-0749ECC1Cannot open
/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client/lib/libclntsh.so.11.1 for reading:
errno=24
<-0722FF6F<-gsignal()+80<-abort()+257<-__assert_fail()+251Cannot open
/usr/lib/librpmio-4.4.so for reading: errno=24
snip


Anybody know why this might be happening?