[Spacewalk-list] Red Hat repository syncing and Errors while cloning/promoting channels

[Boyd, Robert]

Running taskomatic generates this:

2015-10-09 12:03:17,245 [Thread-78] ERROR com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.RepoSyncTask  - ERROR: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: rhel-server-6-supplementary-x86_64. Please verify its path and try again

I've looked at several of my reposyncs and it looks like all of the red hat syncs are failing, apparently since our support renewal recently.    Can anyone advise me as to what I need to do to re-activate the syncing?



I see this happen about once out of 10 times I clone channels using the spacewalk-manage-channel-lifecycle script.   It seems something in the spacewalk engine is running off the rails.   When it happens I restart everything and the next time I try it things go fine.   Then later another run with it for the same or another channel will trigger the failure again.     Which logs should I be looking at? And is this a known problem with channel cloning? I'd almost bet something is running out of resources in one of the background processes.


Thanks.

Here is the error when I'm cloning.

spacewalk-manage-channel-lifecycle -c rhel-x86_64-server-5 --promote -u redacteduser -p redacted --workflow=rms --clear-channel
WARNING: Existing session is invalid
INFO: Parent Source: rhel-x86_64-server-5, destination: rms-preprod-rhel-x86_64-server-5
INFO: Clearing all errata from rms-preprod-rhel-x86_64-server-5
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/spacewalk-manage-channel-lifecycle", line 784, in <module>
    merge_channels(parent_source, parent_dest)
  File "/usr/local/bin/spacewalk-manage-channel-lifecycle", line 420, in merge_channels
    clear_channel(dest_label)
  File "/usr/local/bin/spacewalk-manage-channel-lifecycle", line 500, in clear_channel
    False)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1199, in __call__
    return self.__send(self.__name, args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1489, in __request
    verbose=self.__verbose
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1243, in request
    headers
xmlrpclib.ProtocolError: <ProtocolError for localhost/rpc/api: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable>
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