[Spacewalk-list] Yum client reports no update, But Spacewalk GUI reports that there are

Fri Apr 17 20:10:06 UTC 2015

Due to these sorts of nagging issues (especially when they proliferate across SCORES of servers), I finally set up a standard daily cron task (pushed out via the SW configuration management!) that does these actions daily on all clients:

/usr/bin/yum clean all
/usr/bin/yum makecache
/usr/sbin/rhn-profile-sync
/sbin/service osad restart

I find it handy to run that script "by hand" at times also.  A sledgehammer approach, perhaps, but one with very little downside AFAIK.

I'd say that that has eliminated 90% of the nagging one-off problems with connectivity (osad) and failed updates.

FWIW.

If you have root privileges to the spacewalk SERVER (which you presumably do), you may find that recreating the repodata for the affected channel may help.

cd /var/cache/rhn/repodata/
remove the affected channel's directory tree
then run (in spacecmd) the "softwarechannel_regenerateyumcache" command against that channel
new repodata should then shortly re-appear
(At which point, I've found that I may need to run the cron script (above) by hand on the client.)

Andy

Andy Ingham, MS, CISSP
IT Infrastructure
Fuqua School of Business
Duke University

From: <Boyd>, Robert <Robert.Boyd at peoplefluent.com<mailto:Robert.Boyd at peoplefluent.com>>
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Date: Friday, April 17, 2015 at 1:03 PM
To: "spacewalk-list at redhat.com<mailto:spacewalk-list at redhat.com>" <spacewalk-list at redhat.com<mailto:spacewalk-list at redhat.com>>
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Yum client reports no update, But Spacewalk GUI reports that there are

This problem continues.  The master clearly sees that a number of packages need updating.  For some reason on the client these packages are not being seen.  I attempted scheduling updates from Spacewalk GUI.  Then ran rhn_check on the client.   Then I see this result on the master:

Summary:

Package Install scheduled by <username>

Details:

This action will be executed after 04/17/15 12:58:53 PM EDT.

This action's status is: Failed.
The client picked up this action on 04/17/15 12:59:09 PM EDT.
The client completed this action on 04/17/15 12:59:15 PM EDT.
Client execution returned "Error while executing packages action: empty transaction [[6]]" (code -1)
Packages Scheduled:
·         xorg-x11-server-common-1.15.0-26.el6_6
·         libipa_hbac-python-1.11.6-30.el6_6.4
·         cyrus-sasl-2.1.23-15.el6_6.2
·         scl-utils-20120927-27.el6_6
·         kernel-2.6.32-504.12.2.el6
·         sssd-1.11.6-30.el6_6.4
·         dhcp-common-4.1.1-43.P1.el6_6.1:12
·         busybox-1.15.1-21.el6_6:1
·         nss-softokn-freebl-3.14.3-22.el6_6
·         tzdata-2015b-1.el6
·         kpartx-0.4.9-80.el6_6.3
·         openssl-1.0.1e-30.el6_6.8
·         samba-winbind-3.6.23-14.el6_6:0
·         samba-winbind-clients-3.6.23-14.el6_6:0
·         ntp-4.2.6p5-3.el6_6
·         krb5-libs-1.10.3-37.el6_6
·         sssd-krb5-common-1.11.6-30.el6_6.4
·         perf-2.6.32-504.12.2.el6
·         flac-1.2.1-7.el6_6
·         krb5-workstation-1.10.3-37.el6_6
·         freetype-2.3.11-15.el6_6.1
·         cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.23-15.el6_6.2
·         unzip-6.0-2.el6_6
·         dhclient-4.1.1-43.P1.el6_6.1:12
·         augeas-libs-1.0.0-7.el6_6.1
·         samba4-libs-4.0.0-66.el6_6.rc4:0
·         samba-common-3.6.23-14.el6_6:0
·         tzdata-java-2015b-1.el6
·         sssd-client-1.11.6-30.el6_6.4
·         dracut-004-356.el6_6.1
·         curl-7.19.7-40.el6_6.4
·         cyrus-sasl-plain-2.1.23-15.el6_6.2
·         libsss_idmap-1.11.6-30.el6_6.4
·         libcurl-7.19.7-40.el6_6.4
·         sssd-proxy-1.11.6-30.el6_6.4
·         libipa_hbac-1.11.6-30.el6_6.4
·         openssl-devel-1.0.1e-30.el6_6.8
·         krb5-devel-1.10.3-37.el6_6
·         libssh2-1.4.2-1.el6_6.1
·         nss-softokn-3.14.3-22.el6_6
·         sssd-common-1.11.6-30.el6_6.4
·         python-sssdconfig-1.11.6-30.el6_6.4
·         shadow-utils-4.1.4.2-19.el6_6.1:2
·         sssd-ipa-1.11.6-30.el6_6.4
·         xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.15.0-26.el6_6
·         alsa-utils-1.0.22-9.el6_6
·         sssd-krb5-1.11.6-30.el6_6.4
·         kexec-tools-2.0.0-280.el6_6.2
·         ruby-1.8.7.374-4.el6_6
·         kernel-headers-2.6.32-504.12.2.el6
·         sssd-ad-1.11.6-30.el6_6.4
·         kernel-firmware-2.6.32-504.12.2.el6
·         gdbm-1.8.0-38.el6
·         openjpeg-libs-1.3-11.el6
·         gdbm-devel-1.8.0-38.el6
·         tcsh-6.17-25.el6_6
·         sssd-ldap-1.11.6-30.el6_6.4
·         dracut-kernel-004-356.el6_6.1
·         nss-softokn-freebl-3.14.3-22.el6_6
·         ruby-libs-1.8.7.374-4.el6_6
·         cyrus-sasl-gssapi-2.1.23-15.el6_6.2
·         sssd-common-pac-1.11.6-30.el6_6.4

Time:

04/17/15 12:58:53 PM EDT

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