[Spacewalk-list] two problems

[Maria Iano]

I'm running spacewalk 1.9 on 32-bit CentOS 5.9. I'm having two problems and would appreciate suggestions on troubleshooting them.

The first one is that my SLES channels are not syncing correctly, with an error message generated for each package: "int() argument must be a string or a number". I have an mrepo server which is using our credentials with Novell to pull down the packages and build a yum repository. I don't see any errors in that and I do see that new packages are appearing in the repository as they are found. Our spacewalk server points to those repositories on the mrepo server. The same mrepo server builds RHEL repositories and they sync with spacewalk with no errors. Here is the output from a repo sync:

# spacewalk-repo-sync --channel sles11-sp2-updates-x86_64 --type yum
Repo URL: http://mrepo.server/mrepo/sles11-x86_64/RPMS.sp2-updates/
Packages in repo: 4750
Packages already synced: 908
Packages to sync: 3766
1/3766 : php53-xsl-5.3.8-0.27.1-0.x86_64
int() argument must be a string or a number
2/3766 : gvfs-1.4.3-0.17.19.1-0.x86_64
int() argument must be a string or a number
3/3766 : glibc-info-2.11.3-17.45.45.1-0.x86_64
int() argument must be a string or a number
4/3766 : nautilus-2.28.4-1.16.16.4-0.x86_64
int() argument must be a string or a number
5/3766 : hwinfo-15.48-0.6.6.1-0.x86_64
int() argument must be a string or a number
6/3766 : libproxy0-config-kde4-0.3.1-2.6.3-0.x86_64
int() argument must be a string or a number


The second problem is that when we access our spacewalk server using firefox, safari, or chrome we get an error that pops up from time to time at seemingly random points which says "A server error has occurred". We click OK and carry on and it seems to work ok. I'm told users don't get the error when they are using IE.

I don't think I can find anything in the logs in the following directories at the same time although it's hard to be sure because I can't create it deliberately:
/var/log/tomcat5
/var/log/rhn
/var/log/httpd

I have seen this in catalina.out sometimes around the time it happens, but not always:
WARNING: Error sending end packet
java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite0(Native Method)
at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite(SocketOutputStream.java:109)
at java.net.SocketOutputStream.write(SocketOutputStream.java:153)
at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.send(ChannelSocket.java:538)
at org.apache.jk.common.JkInputStream.endMessage(JkInputStream.java:127)
at org.apache.jk.core.MsgContext.action(MsgContext.java:302)
at org.apache.coyote.Response.action(Response.java:183)
at org.apache.coyote.Response.finish(Response.java:305)
at org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler.invoke(JkCoyoteHandler.java:205)
at org.apache.jk.common.HandlerRequest.invoke(HandlerRequest.java:291)
at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.invoke(ChannelSocket.java:775)
at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.processConnection(ChannelSocket.java:704)
at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket$SocketConnection.runIt(ChannelSocket.java:897)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:685)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679)

Is there somewhere else I should be looking?

Thanks,
Maria