[Spacewalk-list] Server not creating/updating /var/cache/rhn after upgrade

[Brian Long]

I've had similar issues on our SW server that has been upgraded over time.
Take a look here:
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/19303

cd /var/cache/rhn/repodata
rm -rf <one or more channel directories> (or mv <channel> /scratch to keep
a backup)
/root/regen-repodata.py -a --url https://localhost/rpc/api

Login as admin with password

service taskomatic restart
Login to web UI using admin.  Click on Admin tab, Task Schedules.  Click
the channel-repodata-bunch in the right column
Click on Single Run Schedule to start the job.
tail -50f /var/log/rhn/rhn_taskomatic_daemon.log to watch progress.

If the above tail from taskomatic does not output anything for a period
over ten minutes but you've not seen metadata for every channel
regenerated, follow steps 4-6 again.  The log will show the following but
it should continue generating the metadata for the missing channels:

INFO   | jvm 1    | 2018/01/05 15:16:36 | 2018-01-05 15:16:36,189
[Thread-42] WARN  com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.core.SchedulerKernel - Number
of interrupted runs: 1

To verify metadata has been properly generated, login to a host and run the
following commands:

yum clean metadata
yum repolist

For each repo, you should see a positive integer on the far right column.
If you see a 0, that means the metadata for that channel was not generated.


Even with all these steps, we ran into other issues and I'm in the process
of rebuilding our SW server.

/Brian/

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 2:34 PM, Glennie, Jonathan - 0443 - MITLL <
jrglenni at ll.mit.edu> wrote:

> Hi All-
>
>
>
> I’m having an interesting issue where none of our software channels are
> creating any repomd.xml files.  There is a long history with this server,
> which may or may not be relevant to this problem, but it’s worth mentioning
> that this used to be a physical machine running 2.6 that we upgraded to
> 2.7.  After running in to various issue, we migrated the server to a VM
> running 2.7 using the procedure discussed here https://www.redhat.com/
> archives/spacewalk-list/2013-November/msg00070.html
>
>
>
> I have tried manually restarting taskomatic and also using the spacecmd
> commands to regenerate the yum repodata, but nothing is being created in
> /var/cache/rhn.  The repodata directory is completely missing.  I checked
> the taskomatic logs and I don’t see any errors that would point to an
> issue, not sure where else to check.
>
>
>
> When running a yum list from a client, we get an error that the repomd.xml
> file (not surpsingly) couldn’t be found.  Out of curiosity, I tried
> manually copying over the old /var/cache/rhn/repodata directory over from
> the old server and after doing so, I can get past the repomd.xml error, but
> obviously this isn’t good if these repo files aren’t updating.
>
>
>
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