[Spacewalk-list] SW shows updates, yum does not

[Martin Minar]

Hello Jason,

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason M. Nielsen" <jnielsen at myriad.com>
> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 6:49:31 PM
> Subject: [Spacewalk-list] SW shows updates, yum does not
> Spacewalk 1.4
> RHEL5 server
> RHEL5 client
> 
> I recently updated a system via the Spacewalk GUI and it appeared to
> all
> work as expected. Shortly thereafter I noticed it was showing 82 more
> updates available in the GUI. Odd as none of the channels had been
> updated. Apparently newer packages, downloaded long before this client

did you updated some packages not using SW? Say by running yum update on client manually.

> update was run, did not show up in the update list and were not pushed
> out (ie: it installed a slightly older than most current version of
> "http" but newer than that which was on the client at the time of
> update).
> 
> This client now shows no updates via client side command line via Yum.
> Yet in the Spacewalk gui the packages are listed as requiring an
> update.

Can you give us example of package in SW that is reported as needed for update - it's version, the version currently present on client.

> 
> I have cleared out yum entirely with yum clean all etc client side.

Did you try to delete entire /var/cache/yum/<channel> directory or just yum clean all?

> 
> The channels are subscribed and available etc.

Can you check channel where this package is, check what date/time is in Last Modified a Last Build Repo, then go on client to /var/cache/yum/<subdirectory_of_this_channel> and check times of repomd.xml, primary and other files using ls -l.

> 
> The channels are not in progress for a repo cache refresh, they all
> indicate "Completed".
> 
> Spacewalk has been restarted several times.

Have you tried rhn-profile-sync?

> 
> The only time I have seen anything like this was on RHEL4 and having
> to
> register clients twice. This is a first on RHEL5.
> 
> Anyone have an idea what might be wrong and how to resolve this?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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