[Spacewalk-list] Remote Upgrade / Install Broken since Update to 1.3

[Milan Zazrivec]

On Friday 11 February 2011 18:50:53 Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Since I've upgraded my spacewalk server and clients to 1.3, remote install
> / upgrade through the web UI doesn't work anymore.
> 
> My client (running centos) sees all the channel (yum repolist works, yum
> install/upgrade too) but any attempt to schedule the upgrade through the UI
> fails.
> 
> When I run rhn_check in verbose mode, I can see spacewalk sends the correct
> list of packages that needs to be updated but yum doesn't find them.
> 
> Namely, this piece of code in actions/packages.py is being triggered even
> though the package exists:
>             if not len(yum_base.tsInfo) > oldcount:
>                 log.log_debug('MATHIEU THERE #25 empty transaction')
> 
> <spacewalk-list at redhat.com>For instance, if I ask satellite to install
> package 389-admin-1.1.14-1.el5.
> 
> Doing a yum info 389-admin-1.1.14-1.el5 yields something correct:
> Available Packages
> Name       : 389-admin
> Arch       : i386
> Version    : 1.1.14
> Release    : 1.el5
> Size       : 403 k
> Repo       : centos-5-os-x86_64
> Summary    : 389 Administration Server (admin)
> License    : GPLv2 and ASL 2.0
> Description: 389 Administration Server is an HTTP agent that provides
> management features
> 
>            : for 389 Directory Server.  It provides some management web
>            : apps
> 
> that can
> 
>            : be used through a web browser.  It provides the
>            : authentication,
> 
> access control,
> 
>            : and CGI utilities used by the console.
> 
> Name       : 389-admin
> Arch       : x86_64
> Version    : 1.1.14
> Release    : 1.el5
> Size       : 410 k
> Repo       : centos-5-os-x86_64
> Summary    : 389 Administration Server (admin)
> License    : GPLv2 and ASL 2.0
> Description: 389 Administration Server is an HTTP agent that provides
> management features
> 
>            : for 389 Directory Server.  It provides some management web
>            : apps
> 
> that can
> 
>            : be used through a web browser.  It provides the
>            : authentication,
> 
> access control,
> 
>            : and CGI utilities used by the console.
> 
> And I can obviously install it using yum at the command line.
> 
> That said through rhn_check, I get this:
> D: Called update [['389-admin', '1.1.14', '1.el5', '', 'x86_64']]
> D: opening  db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv
> D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0
> D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Name rdonly mode=0x0
> D: May free Score board((nil))
> D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Name
> D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> D: closed   db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> D: May free Score board((nil))
> D: Sending back response (32, 'Failed: Packages failed to install properly:
> No package(s) available to install', {'version': '1', 'name':
> 'package_install_failure'})
> D: do_call packages.checkNeedUpdate ('rhnsd=1',) {}
> D: local action status:  (0, 'rpm database not modified since last update
> (or package list recently updated)', {})
> D: rpcServer: Calling XMLRPC registration.welcome_message
> D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Providename
> D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> D: closed   db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> D: May free Score board((nil))
> 
> For an upgrade I get this:
> D: May free Score board((nil))
> D: Sending back response ((6,), 'Error while executing packages action:
> empty transaction', {})
> D: do_call packages.checkNeedUpdate ('rhnsd=1',) {}
> D: local action status:  (0, 'rpm database not modified since last update
> (or package list recently updated)', {})
> D: rpcServer: Calling XMLRPC registration.welcome_message
> D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Name
> D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> D: closed   db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> D: May free Score board((nil))
> D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Providename
> D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> D: closed   db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> D: May free Score board((nil))
> 
> I've added code to debug this thing and it looks like in
> add_transaction_data, the call to self.install doesn't return anything
> useful...
> 
> I ended up checking yum (def install(self, po=None, **kwargs) and basically
> for all my upgrades, this test is true:
> if not pkgs:
>             # Do we still want to return errors here?
>             # We don't in the cases below, so I didn't here...
> 
> Any clue what I should try next?

Please try to upgrade yum-rhn-plugin to version yum-rhn-plugin-1.3.7-1.

-MZ