[Spacewalk-list] Client execution returned "Error while executing packages action: empty transaction [[6]]" (code -1)

[Gruel Alexander]

Hello all,

I'm new to this list (and to Spacewalk in general) and hope you might be able to help me:

I recently installed Spacewalk 1.7 using the OracleXE Backend on RHEL6.2, and created 
a local repository / channel and assigned it to a test client (which registers successful, also rhel 6.2)

Spacewalk sees the necessary updates for the client, but if I schedule them (or only one package for testing),
as soon as I run rhn_check (-v/vv/vvv) on the client, it fails with the error:
Client execution returned "Error while executing packages action: empty transaction [[6]]" (code -1) 

this is also the only line in the output of rhn_check -vvv that looks bad to my unknowing eyes:

I know there has been a bug in yum-rhn-plugin which has been talked about in September, but that affected
5.7 and the versions don't seem to be similar at all, so I presume this is another problem with the configuration
on my end - I would be happy about a nudge in the right direction where to troubleshoot this problem. 


Regards,
Alexander Gruel

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