[Spacewalk-list] Clients not seeing updates after spacewalk-repo-sync

[VERGEER, BOB H.]

Environment:

-          Spacewalk server and client 1.7.

-          Host and server OS CentOS 6.3

Issue:   I ran an repo-sync on the spacewalk server to update the CentOS6 primary and update channels. They now show 6686 & 949 packages respectively.  However, registered clients are not seeing the updates. I have cleaned repo and metadata and removed /var/cache/yum/* on the clients. When I issue a yum list updates, the caches are rebuilt but only with the original number of available packages (6346 & 715).   The UI shows updates available for the client but the client itself does not see any. Scheduling the updates through the UI fails with "nothing to update".  I feel that I am missing some step  on the server side but I can't determine what it is.  Any thoughts?

Server:
# spacewalk-report channels
channel_label,channel_name,number_of_packages
<snip>
centos6-x86_64,CentOS 6 (x86_64),6685
centos6-x86_64-updates,CentOS 6 Updates (x86_64),949
<snip>
#

Client:
# yum clean all
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, rhnplugin
Cleaning repos: centos6-x86_64 centos6-x86_64-updates epel6-centos6-x86_64
              : spacewalk17-client-centos6-x86_64 vmware-tools-5.1
Cleaning up Everything
Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors
# yum clean metadata
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, rhnplugin
Cleaning repos: centos6-x86_64 centos6-x86_64-updates epel6-centos6-x86_64
              : spacewalk17-client-centos6-x86_64 vmware-tools-5.1
0 metadata files removed
0 sqlite files removed
0 metadata files removed
# rm -rf /var/cache/yum/x86_64/*
# ls -l /etc/yum.repos.d/
total 0
# yum list updates
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, rhnplugin
Determining fastest mirrors
centos6-x86_64                                                               |  871 B     00:00
centos6-x86_64/primary                                                       | 2.6 MB     00:00
centos6-x86_64                                                                            6346/6346
centos6-x86_64-updates                                                       |  871 B     00:00
centos6-x86_64-updates/primary                                               | 1.7 MB     00:00
centos6-x86_64-updates                                                                      715/715
<snip>
#


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Thanks,
Bob

FIRST TENNESSEE

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