[Spacewalk-list] [External Sender] Spacewalk clients reporting zero packages in channels

Wed May 2 18:13:00 UTC 2018

Hmmmmm…

[root at kfr-fpr-as-d01 ~]# yum list

Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security

This system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or Red Hat Satellite.

Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository:
centos6-x86_64. Please verify its path and try again

[root at kfr-fpr-as-d01 ~]#

*Larry E. Clegg*

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*From:* Afify, Sherif S (IBS) [mailto:Sherif.Afify at se1.bp.com]
*Sent:* Wednesday, May 02, 2018 11:08 AM
*To:* Larry Clegg <lclegg at kyriba.com>
*Cc:* spacewalk-list at redhat.com
*Subject:* Re: [External Sender] Spacewalk clients reporting zero packages
in channels

When you run “yum list “ what the error you get ,it might be dns issue

Sent from my iPhone

On May 2, 2018, at 8:06 PM, Larry Clegg <lclegg at kyriba.com> wrote:

Thank you for the suggestions.  I had tried that earlier but did so again
just now.  It made no difference.

The atlas-centos6 channels are all clones from the master centos6
channels.  I created an activation key for these master channels (we
normally do not subscribe systems to the masters).  I then updated my test
client to use this new activation key be subscribed directly to the masters
– same results.  Zero packages listed.

In the SW GUI I see the newly registered system.  It shows that it has
updates available to it.  Yet the client system sees zero packages:

# yum repolist

Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security

This system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or Red Hat Satellite.

repo id
repo
name
status

centos6-x86_64                                                     CentOS 6
(x86_64)                                                                  0

centos6-x86_64-updates                                       CentOS 6
Updates (x86_64)                                                   0

epel6-centos6-x86_64                                           EPEL 6 for
CentOS 6 (x86_64)                                             0

spacewalk27-client-centos6-x86_64                    Spacewalk Client 2.7
for CentOS 6 (x86_64)                      0

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*From:* Afify, Sherif S (IBS) [mailto:Sherif.Afify at se1.bp.com]
*Sent:* Tuesday, May 01, 2018 1:52 PM
*To:* spacewalk-list at redhat.com; lclegg at kyriba.com
*Subject:* [External Sender] Spacewalk clients reporting zero packages in
channels

Faced that issue before and its fixed by stopping the spacewalk services
then  delete data under /var/cache/rhn/reposync/* then start back the
spacewalk , it should work with you.

"spacewalk-service stop ; rm -rf /var/cache/rhn/reposync/* ;
spacewalk-service start"

If the above didn’t work delete everything under /var/cache/rhn/* after
stoping the spacewalk services then start the spacewalk and resync the
channels it must work with you.

"spacewalk-service stop ; rm -rf /var/cache/rhn/* ; spacewalk-service
start; spacewalk-repo-sync -c atlas-centos6-x86_64  -c
atlas-centos6-x86_64-updates  -c atlas-epel6-centos6-x86_64 -c
atlas-spacewalk27-client-centos6-x86_64 -t yum "

*The above will not delete the packages

Please share if that fixed your issue.

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Message: 1

Date: Tue, 1 May 2018 09:43:45 -0700

From: Larry Clegg <lclegg at kyriba.com>

To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com

Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk clients reporting zero packages in

                channels

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Spacewalkers,

I am in dire need of some assistance with this issue.

I have tested against freshly built Spacewalk 2.8 and Spacewalk 2.7 systems
and the results are the same.

The base OS is always Centos 6.9 fully patched.

I believe I have a misconfiguration somewhere but I?m just not finding it.

Problem:

When I register a client to either SW2.7 or SW2.8 the repos show up without
any packages.  In both cases the SW server shows the channels are fully
populated and the repos cache status = completed.  The channel, e.g.

atlas-centos6-x86_64, is a clone from the master centos6-x86_64 channel;
created using spacecmd softwarechannel_clonetree ?s centos6-x86_64 ?p
?atlas-? ?g

[root at kfr-fpr-hc-d01 yum.repos.d]# yum repolist

Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security

This system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or Red Hat Satellite.

repo id                                       repo

name                                          status

atlas-centos6-x86_64                          atlas-CentOS 6

(x86_64)                            0

atlas-centos6-x86_64-updates                  atlas-CentOS 6 Updates

(x86_64)                    0

atlas-epel6-centos6-x86_64                    atlas-EPEL 6 for CentOS 6

(x86_64)                 0

atlas-spacewalk27-client-centos6-x86_64       atlas-Spacewalk Client 2.7

for CentOS 6 (x86_64)   0

When I point this same server to the existing SW2.2 system I get this:

[root at kfr-fpr-hc-d01 ~]# yum repolist

Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security

This system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or Red Hat Satellite.

repo id                                       repo

name                                status

atlas-centos6-x86_64                          atlas-CentOS 6

(x86_64)                  50,247+40

atlas-centos6-x86_64-updates                  atlas-CentOS 6 Updates

(x86_64)          6,601

atlas-epel6-centos6-x86_64                    atlas-EPEL 6 for CentOS 6

(x86_64)       31,592+41

atlas-spacewalk-centos6

atlas-spacewalk-centos6                  169

This problem is a huge issue which is preventing us from moving forward.

Any and all suggestions are very welcome.  Thank you,

*Larry E. Clegg*

Systems Administrator| *Kyriba*

[Cell Phone] +1 858-357-5579

[Address] 9620 Towne Centre Drive | Suite 250 | San Diego, California |

92121

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