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

[James McCabe]

hey brian.  i manually installed it on the client side and now it is
working.   i really appreciate it. THANKS

james



On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Brian Collins <brianc at sedata.com> wrote:

>  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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