[Spacewalk-list] RHEL 6 client fails to apply errata

[ŚLIPEK Krzysztof]

Hello,
I'm ignoring this error because latest packages are already installed, look at this:


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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 14:01:59 +0200
From: Milan Zazrivec <mzazrivec at redhat.com>
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Error while executing packages action:
	empty	transaction [[6]]
Message-ID: <201205101401.59154.mzazrivec at redhat.com>
Content-Type: Text/Plain;  charset="us-ascii"

> Hello,
> 
> I have applied many erratas using SW 1.5 server and on few there is 
> an error "Error while executing packages action: empty transaction [[6]]".
> Mostly it occur on "Errata Update: RHBA-2012:0297:R5-64-1 - python 
> bug fix update" and "Errata Update: RHSA-2011:1326:R5-64-1 - Moderate:
> pango security update". When I check installed version of rpms it's up to date.
> I've tried to execute yum clean all before rhn_check -vvv but error 
> is the same. What does it mean? Can I ignore this error?

What version of yum-rhn-plugin do you have?

If it's the one from spacewalk-client repo (i.e. not stock RHEL), does the following patch:
    
 http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=spacewalk.git;a=commitdiff;h=eaca0f

 a4b2a602d8faea0d0f1848c83574d9865f

resolve the issue for you?

-MZ


I didn't apply this patch.

Regards,
Chris

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>Message: 6
>Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:04:30 +0200
>From: Pierre Casenove <pcasenove at gmail.com>
>To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
>Subject: [Spacewalk-list] RHEL 6 client fails to apply errata
>Message-ID:
>	<CAALa77k9PoFQtgqoRSO6Vc8YWrz0wA7dfe21c+0tK+JD13FJ0A at mail.gmail.com>
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>
>Hello list,
>My setup: Spacewalk 1.7 server. RHEL 6 Client with spacewalk 1.7 packages installed.
>My problem is that some erratas, imported by rhn-clone-errata are marked as needed in spacewalk UI, but fails to apply on my client with error code:
>Client execution returned "Error while executing packages action:
>empty transaction [[6]]" (code -1)
>
>The errata that fails to apply is: RHSA-2012:1054. This errata is associated to these packages:
> libtiff-3.9.4-6.el6_3-i686
>libtiff-3.9.4-6.el6_3-x86_64
> libtiff-devel-3.9.4-6.el6_3-i686
>libtiff-devel-3.9.4-6.el6_3-x86_64
>
>On my client, I have these packages already installed:
>
>~ $ rpm -qa | grep libtiff
>libtiff-3.9.4-5.el6_2.x86_64 --> So the package should be updated
>
>~$ yum update libtiff
>Loaded plugins: product-id, rhnplugin, security, subscription-manager Updating certificate-based repositories.
>Unable to read consumer identity
>Setting up Update Process
>No Packages marked for Update
>
>And finally, here is the trace when scheduling errata deployment and running rhn_check -vvvv
>
>D: rpcServer: Calling XMLRPC errata.getErrataInfo
>D: Called update[['libtiff', '3.9.4', '6.el6_3', '', 'x86_64']]
>D: opening  db environment /var/lib/rpm cdb:mpool:joinenv
>D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0
>D: loading keyring from pubkeys in /var/lib/rpm/pubkeys/*.key
>D: couldn't find any keys in /var/lib/rpm/pubkeys/*.key
>D: loading keyring from rpmdb
>D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Name rdonly mode=0x0
>D:  read h#     685 Header sanity check: OK
>D: added key gpg-pubkey-37017186-45761324 to keyring
>D:  read h#     686 Header sanity check: OK
>D: added key gpg-pubkey-fd431d51-4ae0493b to keyring
>D:  read h#     687 Header sanity check: OK
>D: added key gpg-pubkey-2fa658e0-45700c69 to keyring
>D:  read h#     688 Header sanity check: OK
>D: added key gpg-pubkey-0608b895-4bd22942 to keyring
>D:  read h#     689 Header sanity check: OK
>D: added key gpg-pubkey-b3892132-4c63febc to keyring
>D:  read h#     690 Header sanity check: OK
>D: added key gpg-pubkey-863a853d-4f55f54d to keyring
>D:  read h#     691 Header sanity check: OK
>D: added key gpg-pubkey-66fd4949-4803fe57 to keyring
>D: Using legacy gpg-pubkey(s) from rpmdb
>D:  read h#     133 Header sanity check: OK
>D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Name
>D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages
>D: closed   db environment /var/lib/rpm
>D: Sending back response((6,), 'Error while executing packages action:
>empty transaction', {})
>
>Thanks in advance for your help,
>
>Pierre
>

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