[Spacewalk-list] rhn_check fails

[Jan Hutař]

On 2016-02-23 22:45 -0800, Emmett Hogan wrote:
>   Forgive me if this is a silly question, but I finally got a bare metal
>   system to build from my Spacewalk server and wanted to push some extra
>   packages to it.  The request queued up like it should, then eventually
>   failed with a python error.  In doing some digging, it was trying to
>   resolve [1]mirrorlist.centos.org.  I don't understand why it would be
>   trying to go back to centos for the packages....I thought that it would
>   go to my Spacewalk server for all it's updates.
>   I even tried running:
>   # rhn_check
>   Could not retrieve mirrorlist
>   [2]http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=7&arch=x86_64&repo=os&infra=st
>   ock error was
>   14: curl#6 - "Could not resolve host: [3]mirrorlist.centos.org; Unknown
>   error"
>   I checked /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date and it references my spacewalk
>   host:
>   serverURL=[4]https://192.168.67.5/XMLRPC
>   I know I've apparently screwed up something, somewhere, but I cannot
>   seem to find the answer anywhere.
>   Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>   -Emmett
>
>References
>
>   1. http://mirrorlist.centos.org/
>   2. http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=7&arch=x86_64&repo=os&infra=stock
>   3. http://mirrorlist.centos.org/
>   4. https://192.168.67.5/XMLRPC

Hello,
to view the actual traceback:

  # less /var/log/up2date

And if you see client trying to reach mirrorlist.centos.org, check
if you did not left some repos behind on the client:

  # yum repolist
  # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo

Regards,
Jan



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Jan Hutar     Systems Management QA
jhutar at redhat.com     Red Hat, Inc.