[Spacewalk-list] Problems while deleting Packages no longer present in channels

[Stephen Herr]

On 07/29/2014 02:33 AM, Souvignier, Daniel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I’m trying to free up some disk space while deleting channels. However,
> I deleted the channels via the spacewalk web interface, which didn’t
> delete the packages. The packages are still listed if you go to Channels
> -> Manage Software Channels -> Software packages in the List packages in
> no channels view. When I try to delete all those packages (approx. 21000
> packages) I get a 500 Internal Server error, with no logs to look into.
> Is there a possibility to delete those packages via spacecmd? And if
> not, is that error fixable in the webinterface? Thanks!
>
> Regards,
>
> Daniel Souvignier

Hi Daniel,

Did you get the 500 a few minutes after you clicked the button? That 
probably just means that the connection timed out while waiting for the 
operation to complete, which shouldn't affect the actual deleting of the 
packages. They should disappear eventually. Look at 'top' or something 
to see if the process is still running. Failing that, you can try 
deleting them in smaller batches.

-Stephen