[Spacewalk-list] Failed to add groups file for repository: epel7-centos7-x86_64 - comps file is empty/damaged

[Michael Mraka]

Royee Tager wrote:
% When I run the yum grouplist on my CentOS 7 clients I get the following
% error message:
% 
% [root at labit-lg02 ~]# yum grouplist
% Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, rhnplugin
% This system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or Red Hat Satellite.
% Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
% Failed to add groups file for repository: epel7-centos7-x86_64 - comps file
% is empty/damaged
...
% The comps file on the Spacewalk server are not empty:
% 
% [root at spacewalk ~]# ls -l
% /var/satellite/rhn/comps/epel7-centos7-x86_64/b2bbf938a1e7c811a67d6cfc633e4ccb487917549f960c4dd8e8ffb1f6262740-comps-epel7.xml
% -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1297635 Aug 28 23:11
% /var/satellite/rhn/comps/epel7-centos7-x86_64/b2bbf938a1e7c811a67d6cfc633e4ccb487917549f960c4dd8e8ffb1f6262740-comps-epel7.xml
% [root at spacewalk ~]# ls -l
% /var/satellite/rhn/comps/epel7-centos7-x86_64/b2bbf938a1e7c811a67d6cfc633e4ccb487917549f960c4dd8e8ffb1f6262740-comps-epel7.xml.xz
% -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 167236 Sep  5 20:02
% /var/satellite/rhn/comps/epel7-centos7-x86_64/b2bbf938a1e7c811a67d6cfc633e4ccb487917549f960c4dd8e8ffb1f6262740-comps-epel7.xml.xz
% [root at spacewalk ~]#
% 
% How can I solve this problem?

Is the checksum of b2bbf938*-comps-epel7.xml and one written in repomd.xml equal?


Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat