[Spacewalk-list] problem to sync repositories with channel - resolved

[Andre van der Vlies]

I don't get it... To stupid I guess. Must I remove it all (x86_64) and
force a i386 installation? Or just 'java'? Or just some libs or
references?

What must I do to get this working???

Using CentOS5 x86_64, spacewalk-14, oracle 11g

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Hi ,

The problem was in multiple Java version .

Installing the RHEL i386 as SW server and 32 bits java solve the issue .

Thanks .

Best regards ,
Vladimir Berezovski
NDS IL , Unix group

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vberezovski at xxxxxxx



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[mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Mraka
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 11:04 AM
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Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] problem to sync repositories with channel

Berezovski, Vladimir wrote:
% Hi ,
%
% 1. I'm testing SpaceWalk 1.2 server and clients on RH5 platform .
%
% Following the doc
https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/UploadFedoraContent (Channels ->
Manage Software Channels -> Choose the channel to be linked ->
Repositories ->
Select the repositories to be linked to the channel -> Update Repositories ->
Sync ) I'm trying to sync already defined repo to a specific channel but
receive this error :
%
% * The scheduling service appears down. Please contact your Satellite
administrator.

Check that taskomatic service is running.
# service taskomatic status

% But , doing that in a command line I succeeded to upload packages to the
channel :
%
% spacewalk-repo-sync --channel rhel5.5 --url http://path_to_server
%
% After that I see all packages list under the rhel5.5 channel . In the
similar way I added updates for the rhel5.5 child channel . Then moved to my
clients in order to make them work with a server . But there I stucked :
%
% 2. How to proceed with clients management/updates - I found some threads
that it is not required to define .repo file on a client side under
/etc/yum.repos.d/ ?

You have to subscribe client to child channel with updates. Either
manually in webUI or at registration time via activation key.

No .repo files for spacewalk channels are necessary. There is yum-rhn-plugin
which provides spacewalk channels to client. It knows which channels the
client
is subscribed to and creates someting like virtual .repo entry on the
fly for them. You can check list of available repos on the client by
# yum repolist

% At present neither management packages task from a server cannot be
performed .
%
% Running Software Updater from RH5 client utility pops me up "Unable to
retrieve software information" message .In details I see the following
"Cannot retrieve repository metadata ( repomd.xml) for repository rhel5.5."

Is the client registered to spacewalk server?

% Corresponding request was written in /var/log/httpd/access_log od the
server :
%
% 10.63.200.41 - - [31/Jan/2011:09:54:18 +0200] "GET
/XMLRPC/GET-REQ/rhel5.5/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 404 9 "-"
"rhn.rpclib.py/$Revision$"
%
% And I really cannot see in /var/cache/rhn/reposync/rhel5.5/
repodata/repomd.xml file .

Repo data cache is in /var/cache/rhn/repodata/rhel5.5/.


Regards,

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Michael MrÃka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat

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