[Spacewalk-list] Error when trying to update Spacewalk server from itself.

[Stephen Herr]

I agree that it's a perfectly valid setup, in fact I have my Spacewalk 
instance registered to itself. I don't think that you error is related 
to being self-registered.

Look in /var/cache/rhn/repodata/ on the Spacewalk server, is there a 
directory / metadata files for that channel? If not, is the taskomatic 
service running? Are there errors in 
/var/log/rhn/rhn_taskomatic_daemon.log related to not being able to 
generate the metadata?

-Stephen

On 12/12/2014 04:47 AM, Matt Bayliss wrote:
> Waldrino:
>
> Thanks for your reply - I did investigate whether this was recommended
> prior to doing it, according to a post from someone with apparently good
> credentials (Red Hat Satellite engineer) its OK to do this.
>
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2011-October/msg00010.html
>
> However this was a while ago and things may have changed.  If this is
> not what most people are donig then I'll reconsider.
>
>
> Matthew:
>
> I hadn't, I have now but sadly it didn';t help - same error in log.  To
> reply to your question, I have registered the spacewalk "master" server
> directly to itself.
>
> Regards,
>
> Matt
>
>     On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Matt Bayliss <aarrgghh765 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:aarrgghh765 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         I am testing a Spacewalk 2.2 server with a connected proxy and
>         three hosts connected via the proxy.  I can successfully update
>         packages both on the proxy and hosts connected though it.
>
>         I have added my Spacewalk 2.2 server to itselff, using its DNS
>         FQDN rather than localhost, however when I try to update
>         packages for it I get the following error in /var/log/up2date:
>
>         Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository:
>         centos6-base-x86_64
>
>         I have checked the httpd logs and can't spot a relevant error,
>         what could be the problem?
>
>         Regards,
>
>         Matt
>
>         Full /var/log/up2date log:

>         <class 'yum.Errors.RepoError'>: Cannot retrieve repository
>         metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: centos6-base-x86_64.
>         Please verify its path and try again
>
>
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