[Spacewalk-list] osa-dispatcher not running or not connecting

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 01:38:36PM +0200, Andre van der Vlies wrote:
> 
> > Actually, the
> >
> > 	Unable to connect to jabber servers
> >
> > is printed when exception JabberConnectionError is raised in the
> > osad/jabber_lib code, and that seems to happen when the XMLRPC
> > communication with the server does not go well.
> >
> > So you might want to check /var/log/up2date on the client, or the
> > XMLRPC logs on the server.
> >
> 
> The up2date log on the client says:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/sbin/rhn_check", line 333, in __run_action
>     (status, message, data) = CheckCli.__do_call(method, params, kwargs)
>   File "/usr/sbin/rhn_check", line 325, in __do_call
>     method = getMethod.getMethod(method, "/usr/share/rhn/", "actions")
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/getMethod.py", line 78, in getMethod
>     actions = __import__(modulename)
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/actions/packages.py", line 268, in ?
>     yum_base = YumAction()
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/actions/packages.py", line 67, in __init__
>     self.repos.populateSack(mdtype='all')
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 260, in
> populateSack
>     sack.populate(repo, mdtype, callback, cacheonly)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 187, in
> populate
>     xml = repo_get_function()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1567, in
> getOtherXML
>     return self.retrieveMD('other')
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1498, in
> retrieveMD
>     return self._retrieveMD(mdtype)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1538, in
> _retrieveMD
>     cache=self.http_caching == 'all')
>   File "/usr/share/yum-plugins/rhnplugin.py", line 333, in _getFile
>     raise yum.Errors.RepoError, \
> yum.Errors.RepoError: failed to retrieve repodata/other.xml.gz from
> centos5-addons-x86_64
> error was [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found

So, it looks like your repodata is not being regenerated. Can you
check the status of the centos5-addons-x86_64 channel on the WebUI,
and possibly also the taskomatic logs to see if there is something
wrong there?

-- 
Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat