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Thu Jan 1 01:18:28 UTC 2015

that error is usually a yum error

one of a couple things may be going on.

first try restarting taskomatic you may have a stuck repo-bunch job

On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Erik Johnson <erikj at gwu.edu> wrote:

> Thanks Matt,
> The only command I had not run previously was to clean metadata. After
> doing the clean commands again and queuing an update, I now see the
> following error on the console. While on the client I still see the empty
> transaction list error. Any logs that might help, I can provide. Still
> poking at it now.
>
> What I do find interesting is that at 453P yesterday, some updates
> actually made it through and applied properly, so the lack of consistency
> with no changes is interesting.
>
>
> SystemFailedMessage   spaceprddb1.es.gwu.edu
> <https://spacewalk.it.gwu.edu/network/systems/details/history/event.pxt?sid=1000010062&hid=813>
> 12/20/14 7:43:01 PM EST Fatal error in Python code occurred [[6]]
>
>
>
>
> 
> Action Scheduled Time Succeeded Failed Pending Total   Errata Update:
> ELSA-2014-2021 - Important: jasper security update
> <https://spacewalk.it.gwu.edu/rhn/schedule/CompletedSystems.do?aid=726>
> 12/19/14 4:53:00 PM EST  1
> <https://spacewalk.it.gwu.edu/rhn/schedule/CompletedSystems.do?aid=726>
> 0  0  1   Errata Update: ELBA-2014-2018 - java-1.7.0-openjdk bug fix
> update
> <https://spacewalk.it.gwu.edu/rhn/schedule/CompletedSystems.do?aid=729>
> 12/19/14 4:53:00 PM EST  1
> <https://spacewalk.it.gwu.edu/rhn/schedule/CompletedSystems.do?aid=729>
> 0  0  1   Errata Update: ELSA-2014-2021 - Important: jasper security
> update
> <https://spacewalk.it.gwu.edu/rhn/schedule/CompletedSystems.do?aid=600>
> 12/19/14 1:46:00 PM EST  1
> <https://spacewalk.it.gwu.edu/rhn/schedule/CompletedSystems.do?aid=600>
> 0  0  1   Errata Update: ELBA-2014-2018 - java-1.7.0-openjdk bug fix
> update
> <https://spacewalk.it.gwu.edu/rhn/schedule/CompletedSystems.do?aid=602>
> 12/19/14 1:46:00 PM EST  1
> <https://spacewalk.it.gwu.edu/rhn/schedule/CompletedSystems.do?aid=602>
> 0  0  1   Errata Update: ELBA-2014-2018 - java-1.7.0-openjdk bug fix
> update
> <https://spacewalk.it.gwu.edu/rhn/schedule/CompletedSystems.do?aid=556>
> 12/19/14 10:53:15 AM EST  1
> <https://spacewalk.it.gwu.edu/rhn/schedule/CompletedSystems.do?aid=556>
> 0  0  1
> 
>
>
> -
> Erik E. Johnson
> Division of Information Technology
> The George Washington University
>
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Matthew Madey <mattmadey at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Try running "rhn-profile-sync" then "yum clean metadata" on the client
>> you are trying to update. Then schedule the update again and see if you get
>> the same results.
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Erik Johnson <erikj at gwu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>
>>> *Synopsis:*
>>> Updates available
>>> Apply Errata
>>> run rhn_check -vvv or yum update
>>> rhn_check says transaction list empty, or package already installed
>>> yum update says nothing is available.
>>> Symptoms persist after repo sync, yum clean all, yum clean expire-cache
>>>
>>> I am a recent spacewalk user, just this week successfully deployed
>>> spacewalk 2.0 (Oracles variant) with an Oracle DB backend. I am having
>>> trouble deploying patches, however, and the following errors entail why.
>>> All that I have been able to find with my Google-Fu are errors dating back
>>> to <1.5 versions of spacewalk, and issues with yum-rhn-plugin.
>>>
>>> Being that I am new to spacewalk, after banging at the logs for a few
>>> days, I am still stumped and scratching my head on these errors.
>>>
>>> Any assistance is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
>>>
>>> I have synced all my repos at this point, and everything appears, on the
>>> surface, to look great.
>>>
>>> *Repos*:
>>> oraclelinux6-x86_64 |
>>> http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/latest/x86_64/
>>> oraclelinux6-x86_64-mysql |
>>> http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/MySQL/x86_64/
>>> oraclelinux6-x86_64-server |
>>> http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/spacewalk20/server/x86_64/
>>> oraclelinux6-x86_64-playground |
>>> http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/playground/latest/x86_64/
>>> oraclelinux6-x86_64-addons |
>>> http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/addons/x86_64/
>>> oracle_6_uek3_x86_64 |
>>> http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/UEKR3/latest/x86_64
>>> puppetlabs_el6_x86_64 |
>>> http://yum.puppetlabs.com/el/6Client/products/x86_64/
>>> oraclelinux6-x86_64-uek |
>>> http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/UEK/latest/x86_64/
>>> epel_6_x86_64 | http://mirror.umd.edu/fedora/epel/6Server/x86_64/
>>> oracle_uln_6_x86_64 | uln:///ol6_x86_64_latest
>>> oraclelinux6-x86_64-client |
>>> http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/spacewalk20/client/x86_64/
>>>
>>>
>>> rhn_check -vvv on client
>>> yum-rhn-plugin-2.0.1-1.el6.noarch
>>> spacewalk-client-repo-2.0-3.el6.noarch
>>> spacewalk-oscap-0.0.16-1.el6.noarch
>>>
>>> D: More recent version of package
>>> kernel-uek-0:2.6.32-400.36.12.el6uek.x86_64 is already installed
>>> D:  read h#       8 Header sanity check: OK
>>> D:  read h#     529 Header sanity check: OK
>>> *D: More recent version of package
>>> kernel-uek-firmware-0:2.6.32-400.36.12.el6uek.noarch is already installed*
>>> D:  read h#     620 Header sanity check: OK
>>> *D: More recent version of package
>>> kernel-uek-devel-0:2.6.32-400.36.12.el6uek.x86_64 is already installed*
>>> D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Name
>>> D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages
>>> D: closed   db environment /var/lib/rpm
>>> *D: Sending back response((6,), 'Error while executing packages action:
>>> empty transaction', {})*
>>> D: do_call packages.checkNeedUpdate('rhnsd=1',){}
>>> D: local action status: (0, 'rpm database not modified since last update
>>> (or package list recently updated)', {})
>>> D: rpcServer: Calling XMLRPC registration.welcome_message
>>> D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Providename
>>> D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Name
>>> D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages
>>> D: closed   db environment /var/lib/rpm
>>>
>>>
>>> Please see attached screenshots.
>>>
>>> Thank you for any assistance, I look forward to working with spacewalk
>>> and possibly assisting in development.
>>>
>>> [image: Inline image 2]-
>>> Erik E. Johnson
>>> Division of Information Technology
>>> The George Washington University
>>>
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