[Spacewalk-list] Profile rollback problem

[Jason M. Nielsen]

Have you tried running rhn_check using -v and inspecting the logs client 
side?  When I have had package rollback issues on RHEL 5 the error 
messages in the GUI have largely been misleading. It has typically been 
the packages not being able to be seen by the client (metadata server or 
client side the usual culprit) or a setting which disallows packages to 
be modified, such as a skip list.

I have not done many kernel rollbacks but so far they have worked on 
RHEL 5. Cant say this particular one has been performed. I will note 
though that on RHEL 4 I have run into many strange issues and most of 
them have been due to issues with the RPMs themselves and even manual 
attempts outside SW were a nightmare. Perhaps this is one of those 
scenarios.

On 02/05/2012 07:54 AM, uri van creveld wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm runnning spacewalk 1.5 on rhel5 server and clients.
> I want to be able to install/revert errata as needed.
> However - after applying all erratas to rhel 5.3 server, rollback does
> not work.
> When i compare the system to the ols profile, the output is confusing.
> Some packages, such as the kernel and gcc are listed as 'profile only'
> although a newer version is installed.
> When trying to sync, the operation fails with a message that says that
> the old kernel version is already installed, and therefore it aborts.
> I tried manually removing the old kernel - and the rollback now fails,
> saying cpp is needed by gcc qnd that autofs conflicts with cyrus-sasl-lib.
>
> This does not seem to be reliable at all.
> Can someone help me?
> Thanx,
> Uri
>