[Spacewalk-list] Changelog Cleanup task is INTERRUPTED

[Tomas Lestach]

> Hello!
> 
> I have an issue in scheduled page like this:
> 
> Changelog Cleanup: 2015-03-20 23:00:00 EET INTERRUPTED
> 
> This job has not been working since last march that i have seen.Thus
> i trigger this job as manually, but still there is no change its
> status.To trace the problem that i was opened debugging mod in
> log4j.properties file for taskomatic service.Then i see following
> logs:
> 
> [DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-4] DEBUG
> com.redhat.rhn.common.conf.Config - getString() - getString() ->
> Getting property: parallel_threads
> INFO | jvm 1 | 2015/05/15 09:57:39 | 2015-05-15 09:57:39,719
> [DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-4] DEBUG
> com.redhat.rhn.common.conf.Config - getString() - getString() ->
> result: null
> 
> INFO | jvm 1 | 2015/05/15 09:57:39 | 2015-05-15 09:57:39,719
> [DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-4] DEBUG
> com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.TaskoJob - single-cleanup-data-bunch-6:
> task cleanup-timeseries-data all allowed threads running ... WAITING
> 
> INFO | jvm 1 | 2015/05/15 09:57:46 | 2015-05-15 09:57:46,604
> [com.mchange.v2.async.ThreadPoolAsynchronousRunner$PoolThread-#2]
> DEBUG com.redhat.rhn.common.conf.Config - getString() - getString()
> called with: db_backend
> 
> 
> Its returns the null value, and i cannot see any other details which
> contains problem flags.
> 
> 
> Is there any solution to run this server as properly?

Thank you for letting us know. The issue was caused at monitoring code removal.
The current code tries to run something, that has been deleted.

The issue should be fixed in nightly and will be part of the next Spacewalk release.


Regards,
--
Tomas Lestach
Red Hat Satellite Engineering, Red Hat

PS. The proper fix would be to apply [1] and reboot spacewalk-service.
[1] https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/blob/master/schema/spacewalk/upgrade/spacewalk-schema-2.3-to-spacewalk-schema-2.4/004-remove_monitoring_taskomatic_tasks.sql