[Spacewalk-list] System checkin after reboot

[Coffman, Anthony J]

Thanks for this explanation.  This behavior has been very annoying.

Regards,
--Tony


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From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Michael Calmer
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2015 3:10 AM
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Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] System checkin after reboot

Hi,

Am Donnerstag, 25. Juni 2015, 18:00:42 schrieb Klaas Demter:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to use an action chain that includes a reboot but after the 
> reboot a system takes ages to continue with that chain. It seems the 
> next actions are only picked up with the next rhn checkin that 
> (depending on the
> configuration) can take 4 hours :)

Correct.

> The System is pingable via osad. So the question is, is that a 
> behaviour that is intended? Shouldn't rhnsd or osad once they are 
> started check in and pick up the latest actions? :) I can work around 
> the problem simply by calling an rhn_check after network is ready but 
> thats an ugly fix :)

In the past the reboot action was "successfully finished" as soon as the action was picked-up and the "shutdown -r 3" was scheduled. This was wrong because the next action would directly fetched and applied before the real reboot happend. In worst case the action was aborted because of the reboot.

So we had to find a way to finish the action after the reboot is done.
The only way is to keep the action in state "picked-up" and wait for the next checkin where the uptime gets an update.

To workaround the "4 hours" problem you described I send a patch a long time ago with a tool which does the checkin during boot.
A checkin without fetching the next jobs to prevent executing actions while the system is not yet fully up and running.

This patch/tool was not accepted. AFAIK the idea was to change rhnsd to do the first checkin directly on start, but this was never implemented.

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Regards

	Michael Calmer

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