[Spacewalk-list] OSA Not Picking Up Actions - Most of the Time

Tue Feb 28 13:03:23 UTC 2012

Thanks Jan.  I'll dig into whether these machines (specifically the last
one) are getting their actions picked up.  That's good to know about not
cleaning up /var/lib/jabber/db - it seemed like for a while there that
recommendation was flying around all over this list.

On a side note, I've noticed that after upgrading the spacewalk server to
1.6, any 1.6 clients are consistently picking up their actions as long as
they are not behind a proxy.  I've not tested the success rate for servers
connecting through a proxy.

- Greg

On 2012-02-28 7:37 AM, "Jan Pazdziora" <jpazdziora at redhat.com> wrote:

>On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 07:21:02PM +0000, Wojtak, Greg (Superfly) wrote:
>> I've been having troubles on and off with OSA picking up actions for a
>>long time now (since the middle of 2011).  It's been broken completely
>>for months and I had given up on it for a while so I could focus on
>>other projects.  Recently, I updated the spacewalk client on one of my
>>Cent 5 servers to the packages from the 1.6 repository (everything else
>>is 1.5).  That client started picking up actions.  I upgraded a Cent 6
>>client and it started picking up actions.  Now, we're back to everything
>>not working again.  I've tried stopping OSA clients, osa-dispatcher, and
>>jabberd and cleaning out /var/lib/jabber/db, but still no scheduled
>>actions get picked up.  I'm not sure what's changing that causes this to
>>break.  At one point when I first set this up, all clients were picking
>>up tasks normally (even those behind our proxy).
>> 
>
>The general rule is -- do not clean the /var/lib/jabber/db stop.
>
>If you need to debug, stop osad service on the client and run
>something like osad -N -v and see if it gets the subscription='both'
>message eventually.
>
>> I upped the verbosity of everything OSA related I could think of
>>(jabber, osad, osa-dispatcher) and I noticed in the osa-dispatcher.log
>>that I keep getting the following message repeated every 15 seconds or
>>so:
>> 
>> 2012/01/24 14:13:39 -04:00 10143 0.0.0.0:
>>osad/jabber_lib._roster_callback('Updating the roster', <iq
>>type='result' id='iq-request-1485e3-1362'><query xmlns =
>>'jabber:iq:roster' ><item jid='osad-6dd99be55c at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-85a280d1a5 at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-25ed3808b1 at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-b3b8a0898c at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-b902405a31 at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-fe3f0f59f6 at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-10b42d611a at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-f0f388c885 at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-6021c959dd at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-28dc0ddee4 at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-403d7f1572 at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-c294e8be55 at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-bdd7889037 at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-6398479353 at s!
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>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-77dbbcccd5 at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-c67db0d167 at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-bf92fac08a at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-bfbff17037 at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-18812f1a6b at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-e649e75e71 at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-2a7e50b55f at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-688025edeb at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-4b6e8f533a at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-0451103b21 at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-b011b1c0d2 at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-451aaaee64 at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-1b0a719359 at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-194a9a90a0 at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both!
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>>jid='osad-2dee90ef72 at spacewalk' subscription='both' /><item
>>jid='osad-c4dabbab4a at spacewalk' subscription='both' /><item
>>jid='osad-82c3fd1196 at spacewalk' subscription='both' /><item
>>jid='osad-f6336873b9 at spacewalk' subscription='both' /><item
>>jid='osad-08e127bbe1 at spacewalk' subscription='both' /><item
>>jid='osad-981cef0a59 at spacewalk' subscription='both' /><item
>>jid='osad-2299f285cb at spacewalk' subscription='both' /><item
>>jid='osad-e5bb60fae6 at spacewalk' subscription='both' /><item
>>jid='osad-ceee60b35a at spacewalk' subscription='both' /><item
>>jid='osad-4ab5858f26 at spacewalk' subscription='both' /><item
>>jid='osad-c5d8b414cf at spacewalk' subscription='both' /><item
>>jid='osad-ed5c434fb0 at spacewalk' subscription='both' /><item
>>jid='osad-395b66990a at spacewalk' subscription='both' /><item
>>jid='osad-4d777a57e3 at spacewalk' subscription='both' /><item
>>jid='osad-dbb78ff69a at spacewal!
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>>   subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-6993a948ba at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-ff2a8b73b3 at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-293b707684 at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-c62f89446c at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-77eecb67cc at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-8af17b5e81 at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-956277335c at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-2c8fbbb064 at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-22f5357ae2 at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-86021fcab3 at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-b6d3d1b223 at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-2394e72059 at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-825b3859fb at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-ffd10a0231 at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-ed088f4a2b at spacewalk'
>>subscription='both' /><item jid='osad-1bebc55aaa at spacewalk'
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>>   jid='osad-5e3fa1057c at spacewalk' subscription='both' /></query></iq>)
>> 
>> 
>> Is it normal for this to happen?  We have about 120 - 130 servers in
>>our environment so this doesn't nearly account for all of the clients
>>(if it should account for all of them, that is).
>
>Is the list of machines above matching the list of machines which
>get the action notifications fine? In other words, if the machine
>is not picking up actions, is it in this list or not?
>
>> As mentioned, server is 1.5 and is running on 64-bit CentOS, Postgres
>>backend.
>
>There have been minor fixes in 1.6 but nothing which should be
>related to your situation.
>
>-- 
>Jan Pazdziora
>Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
>
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