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

[Brian Collins]

Great!  Glad to hear it worked!

 

From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of James McCabe
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 1:09 PM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Error while executing packages action:
emptytransaction [[6]]

 


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. :)

 

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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.

 

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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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