[Spacewalk-list] CentOS 7 yum transaction aborted status incorrectly reported by Spacewalk 2.4

Robert Paschedag robert.paschedag at web.de
Mon Jul 18 15:34:28 UTC 2016


Because rpm returned exit code 0 (no error), everything is OK. Also, as stated, the package is already installed. Nothing to argue with.

Regards
Robert
Am 18.07.2016 4:30 nachm. schrieb "Coffman, Anthony J" <Tony.Coffman at snapon.com>:
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> I patched around 20 CentOS 7 systems yesterday.
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> Spacewalk reported all of the scheduled actions completed.
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> 5 of them experienced a yum aborted condition resulting in duplicate packages and a little mess to cleanup.  For those 5 systems, Spacewalk recorded the transaction as “Completed” (green) but in the action details recorded “Requested packages already installed (code 0)”.  So I think there may be a condition when yum aborts that isn’t correctly trapped and reported by Spacewalk 2.4
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> yum history shows the transaction aborted but I don’t yet know why.  I’ve been all over the systems logs but I haven’t found the reason for the transaction aborted yet.
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> I haven’t found a common denominator between these 5 as all 20 systems are very similar setups.
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> Has anybody else seen something similar on 7.x?
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> Regards,
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> --Tony
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