[Spacewalk-list] Updates not seen as needed for clients

[Jason M. Nielsen]

Doubt these are the only situation but under SW 1.4. 1)RHEL4 which 
required deleting and registering the system again. 2)Channels/Repos 
were still in a process of sync'ing their repo cache. You can see this 
from the Channels details page.

I just had a similar issue but in my case I was seeing updates available 
SW side but not client. I did all the typical yum clean all, profile 
syncs, rhn_check checks, channel repo cache sync etc and so forth. I 
even restarted the SW services. Nothing worked.

I then noticed that reposyncs were still running (ie: ps auxwww | grep 
repo). Somehow they appear to have been causing problems with this even 
though the repos were unrelated to the clients I saw issues on. Within 
minutes of the reposync's finishing all updates showed up.


On 09/13/2011 01:57 AM, Pierre Casenove wrote:
> Hello,
> After a day, the clients still don't see the updates.
> I've checked /var/log/up2date file on the client, but couldn't find
> anything interesting.
>  From the spacewalk gui, when I select the latest kernel package and
> then click on "Target Systems" tabs, my clients are listed, though
> spacewalk says they doesn't need any update (I've attached a screenshot
> to be clear).
>
> Thanks in advance for your help,
>
> Pierre
>
>
> 2011/9/12 Pierre Casenove <pcasenove at gmail.com <mailto:pcasenove at gmail.com>>
>
>     Hello,
>     I have a spacewalk 1.5 installation on PGSQL backend.
>     I have a base channel containing RHEL 5 x64 rpms.
>     My test clients have RHEL 5.6 installed.
>     I've rhnpushed the rpm of RHEL 5.7 in the base channel.
>     The problem is that in the web ui, no packages are marcked for updates.
>     When I connect on a client, and launched yum update command, here is
>     the (filtered) output:
>       Transaction Summary
>     Install       1 Package(s)
>     Upgrade     178 Package(s)
>     Total download size: 287 M
>     Is this ok [y/N]: N
>
>     Here is the log when running rhn_check -vvvv :
>     hostname ~ # rhn_check -vvvv
>     D: opening  db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv
>     D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0
>     D: locked   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages
>     D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Providename rdonly mode=0x0
>     D: do_call packages.checkNeedUpdate ('rhnsd=1',) {}
>     Loaded plugins: rhnplugin
>     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/Providename rdonly mode=0x0
>     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))
>     Config time: 0.069
>     Setting up Package Sacks
>     D: login(forceUpdate=False) invoked
>     D: readCachedLogin invoked
>     D: Checking pickled loginInfo, currentTime= 1315834359.91 ,
>     createTime= 1315834345.24 , expire-offset= 3600.0
>     D: readCachedLogin(): using pickled loginInfo set to expire at
>       1315837945.24
>     D: rpcServer: Calling XMLRPC up2date.listChannels
>     pkgsack time: 0.076
>     rpmdb time: 0.000
>     repo time: 0.003
>     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))
>
>
>
>     I've ran rhn_check 6 hours after rhnpushing the updates. Is there a
>     problem in my setup? Where could I find useful information?
>
>     Thanks in advance for you help,
>
>     Pierre
>
>