[Spacewalk-list] Cannot trtrieve reposiitory metadata (repomd.xml)

[Stephen Herr]

The "taskomatic" service is what is supposed to generate the yum 
repodata. Ensure that it is running and look in 
/var/log/rhn/rhn_taskomatic_daemon.log to see if there are any relevant 
errors.

https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/TaskoMatic

-Stephen

On 11/07/2014 09:00 AM, YANG LI wrote:
> thank you Alexander. tried following on spacewalk server but still broke
> from client side.
>
> cd /var/cache/rhn/repodata
> rm -rf oraclelinux6-x86_64
> spacecmd softwarechannel_regenerateyumcache oraclelinux6-x86_64
>
> [root at sbrh1 repodata]# ls -lh
> total 40K
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Oct 15 12:14 centos6-x86_64
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Oct 15 12:15 epel6-centos6-x86_64
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Nov  5 15:23 epel6_x86_64
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Nov  7 08:53 oraclelinux5-x86_64
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Oct 24 14:09 oraclelinux5-x86_64-addons
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Oct 28 11:57 oraclelinux6-x86_64-addons
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Oct 10 20:16 oraclelinux6-x86_64-uek-r3
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Oct 29 14:35 sles11-sp3-novel
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Oct 29 14:36 sles11-sp3-updates-x86_64
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Nov  7 02:07 zfs_el6_x86_64
>
> do not see oraclelinux6-x86_64 get generated.
>
> started sync from web UI
>
> Sync started: Fri Nov  7 08:27:07 2014
> ['/usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync', '--channel', 'oraclelinux6-x86_64',
> '--type', 'yum', '']
> Repo URL: http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/latest/x86_64/
> Packages in repo:             28672
> No new packages to sync.
> Repo http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/latest/x86_64/
> has comps file comps.xml.
> Repo http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/latest/x86_64/
> has 1590 errata.
> Sync completed.
> Total time: 0:22:55
>
> anything else I should try?
>
> On Nov 7, 2014, at 5:04 AM, Alexander Innes <senni at necurity.co.uk
> <mailto:senni at necurity.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>> Its usually a cache error on spacewalk,
>>
>> cd /var/cache/rhn/repodata/
>> rm -rf $Broken
>> spacecmd softwarechannel_regenerateyumcache
>> spacewalk-repo-sync -c $Broken
>>
>> Usualy fixes that for me
>>
>> On 7 November 2014 07:35, YANG LI <yangli at clemson.edu
>> <mailto:yangli at clemson.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>     I got the latest spacewalk 2.2 installed. It was working fine. I
>>     can register a rhel6 client to oraclelinux6-x86_64 channel and did
>>     yum update without issue. Then one day i found out yum update is
>>     broken.
>>     this is message I see when I try to yum check-update:
>>
>>     [root at yangli-test ~]# yum check-update Loaded plugins: product-id,
>>     rhnplugin, subscription-manager This system is not registered to
>>     Red Hat Subscription Management. You can use subscription-manager
>>     to register. This system is receiving updates from ULN. Error:
>>     Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository:
>>     oraclelinux6-x86_64. Please verify its path and try again
>>
>>     I have tried to resync oraclelinux6-x86_64 channels without luck.
>>     I am not sure which changes have caused this. I think there are
>>     only three changes I have made on spacewalk servers:
>>
>>     1. added EPEL channel as child channel of oralelinux6-x86_64 channel
>>
>>     # spacewalk-common-channels -v -u aais-admin -p spacewalk -a
>>     x86_64 -k unlimited epel6
>>
>>     2. added osad to force scheduled actions to run mediately on
>>     spacewalk clients. This was tested and worked fine.
>>
>>     3. Enabled monitoring.
>>
>>     I am thinking it may related to add epel channel, so i deleted
>>     epel channel, but it still broke. Any idea how i fix this?
>>
>>
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