[Spacewalk-list] yum update does not see any new packages from a spacewalk server.

[Eugene]

client
# yum repolist
Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit,
              : rhnplugin
repo id                                   repo name                       status
adobe-linux-x86_64                        Adobe Systems Incorporated           2
fedora16-x86_64                           Fedora 16 (x86_64)              25,098
fedora16-x86_64-cinnamon                  Fedora 16 cinnamon (x86_64)          4
fedora16-x86_64-debug                     Fedora 16 Debug (x86_64)         5,659
fedora16-x86_64-rpmfusion                 Fedora 16 rpmfusion (x86_64)       428
fedora16-x86_64-rpmfusion-nonfree         Fedora 16 rpmfusion nonfree (x8    171
fedora16-x86_64-rpmfusion-nonfree-updates Fedora 16 rpmfusion nonfree upd    447
fedora16-x86_64-rpmfusion-updates         Fedora 16 rpmfusion updates (x8    894
fedora16-x86_64-updates                   Fedora 16 Updates (x86_64)      14,951
spacewalk-client                          Spacewalk Client Tools              21
repolist: 47,675

# yum list updates
Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit,
              : rhnplugin

server
# ls -al /var/spool/rhn/repodata/*
ls: cannot access /var/spool/rhn/repodata/*: No such file or directory

>From 'Systems' page for the same client:
Software Updates Available    Packages: 66 

Eugene.

09.07.2012, 01:28, "Jan Hutař" <jhutar at redhat.com>:
> Hello,
> when you do `yum repolist` on the client, do you see there are
> some packages in the channels in question? And what `yum list
> updates` says?
>
> And on the Spacewalk server, what says `ls
> -al /var/spool/rhn/repodata/*`?
>
> Regards,
> Jan
>
> On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 12:04:37 -0500 Eugene <eugene at bct.bz> wrote:
>
>>   Was a solution ever offered? I am facing the same problem
>>  again. Taskomatic was restarted several times.
>>  25.03.2012, 09:23, "Paulo Silva" <paulojjs at gmail.com>:
>>  I'm having a similar problem.
>>
>>  I've just installed a spacewalk 1.7 server, created the
>>  channels, uploaded the packages and registered a client
>>  (CentOS 5 i386).
>>
>>  When I run yum on it I see this:
>>
>>  # yum clean all
>>  Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, rhnplugin
>>  Cleaning up Everything
>>  Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors
>>
>>  # yum update -v -v
>>  Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
>>  Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
>>  Config time: 0.098
>>  Yum Version: 3.2.22
>>  Setting up Package Sacks
>>  Looking for repo options for [centos5-i386]
>>  Looking for repo options for
>>  [spacewalk-nightly-client-centos5-i386] Looking for repo
>>  options for [centos5-i386-updates] Determining fastest mirrors
>>  rpmdb time: 0.000
>>  Setting up Update Process
>>  Updating Everything
>>  Building updates object
>>  Setting up Package Sacks
>>  Setting up Package Sacks
>>  up:Obs Init time: 0.001
>>  up:simple updates time: 0.000
>>  up:obs time: 0.000
>>  up:condense time: 0.000
>>  updates time: 0.076
>>  No Packages marked for Update
>>
>>  But on the spacewalk web interface I see that the system has
>>  21 updates available and I even schedule a few of them.
>>
>>  It looks like the client isn't able to fetch the rpms from the
>>  spacewalk server, maybe I missed a step during instalation?
>>
>>  2012/3/25 Brian Collins <brianc at sedata.com>
>>  Have you tried 'yum clean expire-cache' and then re-running
>>  either yum update or rhn_check?
>>  --Brian
> --
> Jan Hutar     Systems Management QA
> jhutar at redhat.com     Red Hat, Inc.