[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 1.5 to 1.7 upgrade - package search broken

[Milan Zazrivec]

On Monday 16 April 2012 20:30:23 Will Lovins wrote:
> I've recently upgraded from Spacewalk 1.5 to 1.7 using Oracle 11.
> Additionally, Spacewalk was migrated from CentOS 5.6 to
> ScientificLinux 6.x.
> Everything upgraded flawlessly except for one piece: Package Search.
> 
> We no longer get results when searching for packages
> (https://spacewalk.example.com/rhn/channels/software/Search.do).
> If I search for "mirth" and limit my search to to a software channel
> that I KNOW contains that package, I get zero results.
> When searching for random words against all channels (things like
> "potato"), I do get results back though I cannot explain why. Popt is
> returned when searching for potato.
> 
> I do not see any errors or failing scheduled tasks in the logs, so I
> am not sure where to look at this point.
> There were no errors in the upgrade / migrations. Package syncs work
> properly and new packages are being added from our channels.
> 
> The only problem we have is that package searching appears to be
> completely broken for us.
> 
> Does anyone have ideas on what we could do to troubleshoot this issue?
> Thank you.

In what log files were you searching for the errors? Do you see anything
showing in /var/log/rhn/search/*.log ?

-MZ