[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.3 keeps showing upgradable packages

Thu May 28 12:17:22 UTC 2015

I had this same problem last week.  I found that jabber was failing to
connect.

In /var/log/messages was getting a ton of the following messages

jabberd/c2s[13698]: port=48735] connect
jabberd/c2s[13698]: disconnect jid=unbound, packets: 0

It turns out my hostname setup was not done correctly.  Not sure where I
screwed this up.

The following thread
https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2011-March/msg00052.html
suggested I check the '/etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date' file for my proper
hostname as stated in '/etc/sysconfig/network'.  The second of the
following lines needed to be adjusted

serverURL[comment]=Remote server URL (use FQDN)
serverURL=http://swserver/XMLRPC

After changing 'swserver' to my hostname, there was no success.

I also had to install the spacewalk-utils package to use the command
'spacewalk-hostname-rename'.  After running

spacewalk-hostname-rename <ip-address>

it all came back up and the jabber/c2s messages stopped.  My spacewalk is
now working correctly again.

Not sure if these two steps together resolved the issue or if just running
the rename command would have worked.

Jim

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 5:32 AM, Nahelou Sébastien <
sebastien.nahelou at worldline.com> wrote:

> Hi Gerald
>
> I have exactly the same problem since 2.3. Servers are up to date but GUI
> show updates, example:
>
> > Latest Package - Installed Package
> > kernel-2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.x86_64 - kernel-2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.x86_64
>
> I have no solution (I had already try restart spacewalk / reboot servers /
> Clean cache rhn-search...).
> But, if you change software channel, this problem disappear temporarily...
> (it's not a solution for 10k systems)
>
> We use the same architecture (2.3 / PGSQL / CentOS6), if you find
> informations, please keep me informed, I'm very interested about that :)
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Sebastien
>
> PS: My taskomatic run already with a lot of memory
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:
> spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] De la part de Gerald Vogt
> Envoyé : mercredi 27 mai 2015 07:02
> À : spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Objet : [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.3 keeps showing upgradable packages
>
> Hi!
>
> I have upgraded successfully from 2.2 to 2.3 two weeks ago. I have even
> scheduled several updates through spacewalk since then.
>
> However, since yesterday I have noticed that there are several systems
> which are shown with upgradable packages even though the system is up to
> date.
>
> 1. "yum update" on the system shows no updates. "yum list" or "rpm -ql"
> show that the latest package is already installed.
>
> 2. spacewalk shows identical "latest package" and "installed package"
> versions in the list of upgradable packages, e.g.:
>
> >       Latest Package  Installed Package       Related Errata
> >       firefox-38.0.1-1.el6.centos.x86_64
> firefox-38.0.1-1.el6.centos.x86_64
> >       postgresql94-9.4.2-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64
>  postgresql94-9.4.2-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64
> >       postgresql94-libs-9.4.2-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64
> postgresql94-libs-9.4.2-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64
> >       postgresql94-server-9.4.2-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64
> postgresql94-server-9.4.2-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64
>
> 3. If I click on the link for the latest package, take a not of the "pid"
> in the URL, then show the list of installed packages in spacewalk and click
> on the link for the package installed, it shows the identical "pid" in the
> URL, i.e. I would assume it's in fact the identical package.
>
> 4. I ran "rhn-profile-sync" on the system, but not difference.
>
> 5. If I schedule an upgrade of the suggested upgradable packages, the logs
> on the system show that nothing is done as the packages are already
> installed.
>
> 6. I see no errors in the logs on the spacewalk server.
>
> Any ideas how to further troubleshoot this?
>
> Spacewalk Server 2.3 on CentOS 6 with local PostgreSQL database.
> Spacewalk 2.3 clients on CentOS 5 and 6.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gerald
>
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