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

[Jason M. Nielsen]

Sorry, but I think I found the issue with this but not sure.

Ultimately I noticed some reposync's running. None of them were related 
to the channels or clients for which I was seeing the issue which seemed 
odd to me. Shortly after the sync's finished the updates showed up 
client side as expected.

On 09/14/2011 04:56 AM, Martin Minar wrote:
> 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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