[Spacewalk-list] OSAD not picking up updates

[Thomas Mueller]

Am 13.05.2016 um 19:42 schrieb Sorensen, Paul - (p):
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> Can you elaborate on this?  I was just about to set up spacewalk proxy
> servers, and I’ve found that deleting that DB directory did help with
> OSAD issues.
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> What problems were encountered, and what did you have to do to fix this?
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* client registers to spacewalk-proxy jabberd
* spacewalk-proxy jabberd forwards "subscription for room xy" (or
something like that) to the spacewalk-server jabberd
* with rm -rf /var/lib/jabberd/db/* you delete this "subscription for
room xy" on the spacewalk-server jabberd
* spacewalk-proxy does not now about the deleted information, does not
resend the information or notify the client
* the client thinks "i'm subscribed to room xy", spacewalk-proxy jabberd
thinks "all ok",
* but spacewalk-server jabberd does not now about the subscription of
the spacewalk-proxy client and can't send messages to the client
attached to the spacewalk-proxy anymore


You would need to restart all spacewalk-proxy client osad services or
the spacwalk-proxy jabberd to force a full reconnect.

If you're using RedHat Satellite (the enterprisy Spacewalk):
unfortunatly they "enhanced" the init script with rm -rf of the jabberd
database... (at least up to Satellite 5.7).

IMHO there were some enhancements for osad jabberd registrations Github
spacewalk PR #287 and another one which I can't find right now (IMHO
they run now something like
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17275_01/html/api_reference/C/db_recover.html
on service startup to clean the database before starting). I think this
will mitigate various troubles seen so far.

None the less I try to avoid wherever possible to use the
spacewalk/satellite remote commands as they have made me cry so many times.

- Thomas

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> *Subject:* Re: [Spacewalk-list] OSAD not picking up updates
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> Don't delete the database if you use spacewalk proxies connected to
> the spacewalk server or you'll run into osad problems with clients
> connected to the proxy.
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> Am 13. Mai 2016 19:00:32 MESZ, schrieb Paul Robert Marino
> <prmarino1 at gmail.com <mailto:prmarino1 at gmail.com>>:
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> I have had success with a weekly cron job to clean out the jabber database
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> service jabberd stop
> rm -Rf /var/lib/jabberd/db/*
>  service jabberd start
> service osa-dispacher restart
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