[Spacewalk-list] Error while executing packages action: emptytransaction [[6]]

[Brian Collins]

You're quite welcome - glad to help.

The bug is really on the client side, so that's where it needs to go, unfortunately. :)



From: James McCabe
Sent: Tue 9/13/2011 6:58 PM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Error while executing packages action: emptytransaction [[6]]


thanks for the quick response Brian.  the funny thing about all of this is that that was the pkg i was trying to install LOL... now i did manually install it with yum on the sat server itself but i did not install it on the client yet .  does it have to be on both of them for the update to work from the sat server?   i will yum it on the clients tomorrow and see if that fixes it.  

once again,  thanks for your input it is highly appreciated :-D


On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Brian Collins <brianc at sedata.com> wrote:

Yep.  There was a recent update to yum-rhn-plugin that introduced a bug that causes this exact problem (version 0.5.4-22.el5_7.1).  The long-term solution is to get the version of yum-rhn-plugin that was put out this week (version 0.5.4-22.el5_7.2).

I just set up a remote command on my machines that installed yum-rhn-plugin specifically.

Short-term, you can do:
-yum clean all
-rm -rf /var/cache/yum/*
-rhn_check -v

Funny note about the bug: it is only triggered by running 'rhn_check' with no options.  Adding any number of '-v' after the command doesn't trigger it.



From: James McCabe
Sent: Tue 9/13/2011 4:19 PM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Error while executing packages action: empty transaction [[6]]


my updates are failing when i try to update my satellite clients using my redhat satellite server running rhel 5.7. I schedule the event and after it gets picked up, it fails with the error 

Client execution returned "Error while executing packages action: empty transaction [[6]]" (code -1)

i am able to run the yum update on the client and it will perform the updates but when going through the satellite server it errors out.  

any ideas??


Thanks 

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