[Spacewalk-list] help with ubuntu16 client and spacewalk2.9 server

[Nicole Beck]

Hello,
I'm trying to get an Ubuntu 16 xenial client setup to do updates from a spacewalk 2.9 server installed on CentOS7.  I am able to register the client, install and remove, or update a single package thru the spacewalk web interface. But when I try to update all of the packages on (choose system - Software - Packages tab - Upgrade tab - choose Select All - Upgrade packages - confirm), then run "rhn_check -vvv" on the client, it fails with:

...
Apt-Spacewalk: Updating sources.list
D: Failed to update package['python-wadllib', '1.3.2', '3ubuntu0.16.04.1', '', 'all-deb']
D: Sending back response(1, 'update failed', {})
D: do_call packages.checkNeedUpdate('rhnsd=1',){}
D: Called refresh_list
Updating package profile
D: rpcServer: Calling XMLRPC registration.welcome_message
D: rpcServer: Calling XMLRPC registration.update_packages
D: local action status: (0, 'package list refreshed', {})
D: rpcServer: Calling XMLRPC registration.welcome_message

I could use the web interface to update the single package that it says it is failing on.

I used the steps listed in https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2019-January/msg00006.html to get this setup. I installed the 2.8 spacewalk client referenced in the thread, and I signed the repos per the documentation at http://www.devops-blog.net/spacewalk/gpg-signing-apt-repository-in-spacewalk. I checked, and I think the necessary patches referenced in that document are already the client and server. I used spacewalks spacewalk-repo-sync command to sync the Ubuntu repositories. However, I did not run the script to setup multiarch headers that is referenced in https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2018-September/msg00072.html. Is that still needed? The documentation for Ubuntu and spacewalk isn't that great, some is for older versions of spacewalk, so I'm piecing things together and I'm not sure what is still needed and what is not, of if I installed things correctly.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks!
Nicole
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