[Spacewalk-list] scheduled rhn_check on Ubuntu failed to configure with dpkg

[Paul-Andre Panon]

Hi,

We did our first major patching run with Spacewalk on a mix of CentOS and Ubuntu servers. Normally we've been manually running rhn_check -v on the clients, but this time we patched enough servers that a couple of Ubuntu servers had rhn_check -v get run by rhnsd before we could get around to running them manually. On those servers, the dpkg configure stage didn't run and all packages were only in the Unpacked state.

Syslog shows that something wasn't working correctly when it tried to run rhn_check -v. Perhaps a slightly different invocation for i/o redirection is necessary for background execution by rhnsd in Ubuntu?

Jul 23 10:07:37 dc1-atl-bitbucket rhnsd[14484]: running program /usr/sbin/rhn_check with PID 14484
Jul 23 10:07:53 dc1-atl-bitbucket upstart-socket-bridge[651]: Disconnected from Upstart
Jul 23 10:07:53 dc1-atl-bitbucket upstart-udev-bridge[338]: Disconnected from Upstart
Jul 23 10:07:53 dc1-atl-bitbucket kernel: [6885730.612608] init: upstart-udev-bridge main process (338) terminated with status 1
Jul 23 10:07:53 dc1-atl-bitbucket kernel: [6885730.612618] init: upstart-udev-bridge main process ended, respawning
Jul 23 10:07:53 dc1-atl-bitbucket kernel: [6885730.612707] init: upstart-file-bridge main process (442) terminated with status 1
Jul 23 10:07:53 dc1-atl-bitbucket kernel: [6885730.612712] init: upstart-file-bridge main process ended, respawning
Jul 23 10:07:53 dc1-atl-bitbucket kernel: [6885730.612777] init: upstart-socket-bridge main process (651) terminated with status 1
Jul 23 10:07:53 dc1-atl-bitbucket kernel: [6885730.612782] init: upstart-socket-bridge main process ended, respawning

This is on Ubuntu 14.04, but I'm running custom package builds where I tried to update to newer Spacewalk rhnsd client source while applying Ubuntu 16.04 package diffs. I was hoping to eventually get it working with osad the way it works for RedHat/CentOS. 

We had one 16.04 machine running stock 16.04 packages that ran rhn_check in the background with no problem, so I'm probably missing a necessary diff. Any suggestion as to which files/procs for rhnsd spawn rhn_check so that I can double check them for the source of the problem in my custom 14.04 packages?

Thanks,

Paul-Andre Panon
Senior systems administrator
 

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