[Spacewalk-list] Possible BUG: Requested packages have already been installed on CentOS 5 clients

[Coffman, Anthony J]

Thanks for having a look.

I should have also mentioned that a yum install or yum update does successfully install the same package(s) (from the same Spacewalk repos)

Here's the rhn -vv output during an attempted update of openssl.

https://paste.fedoraproject.org/314962/

Here't the package list (rpm -qa | sort)

https://paste.fedoraproject.org/314963/

It does this if I try to update any package or groups of packages via scheduled action.

Regards,
--Tony



-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Hutař [mailto:jhutar at redhat.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 2:47 PM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Cc: Coffman, Anthony J <Tony.Coffman at snapon.com>
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Possible BUG: Requested packages have already been installed on CentOS 5 clients

On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 15:14:54 +0000 "Coffman, Anthony J"
<Tony.Coffman at snapon.com> wrote:

> I ran into this one yesterday unexpectedly.
> 
> It seems there may be a bug in the SW 2.4 client that seems to only 
> affect EL5 clients.  I tested this on CentOS 5 i386 but not on x86_64 
> yet.  I haven't seen it on EL6, EL7, or SuSE.
> 
> When you scheduled a package install/update action, you get this back
> 
> Client execution returned "Requested packages already installed" (code 
> 0)
> 
> The 0 return code makes it look successful but no package
> changes are made.   Because of the change to spread out errata
> cache processing over time you can easily be fooled into thinking that 
> you have successfully applied updates when in reality nothing was 
> actually applied.
> 
> The requested packages are not actually already installed.
> 
> I rolled one test system back to the 2.3 client manually and it does 
> fix the issue.
> 
> Has anybody else run into this problem?
> 
> --Tony

As a first step, could you please run rhn_check on the client with "-vv" option and sent the full output? Also `rpm -qa | sort` might be handy.

Regards,
Jan



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Jan Hutar     Systems Management QA
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