[Spacewalk-list] Unable to Download Packages from Spacewalk Server

[Miroslav Suchy]

Dne 20.9.2011 16:15, Glennie, Jonathan - 0443 - MITLL napsal(a):
> Hello All-
>
> I recently updated to 1.5 from 1.3 (upgraded to 1.4 in the middle) and
> am now seeing some problems when downloading packages on clients,
> although I don’t necessarily think this is because of the upgrade. While
> upgrading, I also cleaned out my channels and let them resync as I have
> done in the past without issue, but I think it’s causing problems this
> time. I can do a yum update and the clients will see the packages that
> they need to download, however when it actually attempts to download
> them it fails on every package with errors like the one below:
>
> 2:vim-X11-7.0.109-7.el5.x86_64: failed to retrieve
> getPackage/vim-X11-7.0.109-7.el5.x86_64.rpm from centos5-os-x86_64
>
> error was [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
>
> If I look on the server web ui, I can see the packages in question with
> all of the proper information but the download link shows “Download:
> Missing File: vim-X11-7.0.109-7.el5.x86_64.rpm”
>
> In httpd error log I see the message
>
> “RHN 22481 2011/09/20 10:03:13 -04:00: ('Package not found',
> '/var/satellite/redhat/1/df8/vim-enhanced/7.0.109-7.el5/x86_64/df818f5c6561fac037cd50ba0f39ec9a/vim-enhanced-7.0.109-7.el5.x86_64.rpm')”
>
>
> The file location is indeed different. The actual path is
> “/var/satellite/redhat/1/df8/*2:*7.0.109-7.el5/…” however on other
> packages the reported path is correct but the Missing File message in
> the download link still appears. I am really confused as to what’s going
> on here and this behavior persists even if I make new channels and sync
> again. Any insight is appreciated, thanks.
>

Run:
spacewalk-data-fsck --remove

And sync missing packages again.

Mirek Suchy