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

[Michael Mraka]

Brent Bolin wrote:
% 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?

https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2011-March/msg00005.html

Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat