[Spacewalk-list] Odd sync errors since upgrading to 2.10

[Simon Avery]

Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction for this puzzler.

I upgraded our 2.9 instance (host is Centos 7) to 2.10 on Friday. The process was not painless, but I think it completed successfully. (Details at end if relevant)

Clients: Centos 6 and 7

Since then, we get an intermittent email :



Taskomatic bunch repo-sync-bunch was scheduled to run within the repo-sync-1-119 schedule.

Subtask repo-sync failed.

For more information check /var/log/rhn/tasko/org1/repo-sync-bunch/repo-sync_18305548_err.

However - an hour later, we get another email



Taskomatic bunch repo-sync-bunch was scheduled to run within the repo-sync-1-135 schedule.

Subtask repo-sync finished successfuly and is back to normal.

I looked into this yesterday and as the _err file referenced centos 8 repos, I removed and cleaned them (We weren't using them anyway). Since then it's complaining about packages in the c7 and c6 repos, picking different packages to be upset with.

Example _err

08:00:06   Linking packages to the channel.
08:00:07 ERROR: Could not find object [<spacewalk.server.importlib.importLib.IncompletePackage instance; attributes={'package_size': None, 'package_arch_id': 119, 'name': 'nagios-plugins', 'checksum_list': None, 'md5sum': None, 'org_id': 1, 'epoch': None, 'checksums': {'sha256': '1e4db6477704201957d5bda75f10cc3ce78dca507597a0e7f884c40021578712'}, 'channels': {119: 'epelupdatesc6_5'}, 'nevra_id': 221777, 'package_id': None, 'last_modified': None, 'name_id': 7064, 'version': '2.3.3', 'checksum': '1e4db6477704201957d5bda75f10cc3ce78dca507597a0e7f884c40021578712', 'release': '1.el6', 'checksum_type': 'sha256', 'arch': 'x86_64', 'evr_id': 3456, 'checksum_id': 14710985}] in table rhnPackage
08:00:07 Sync of channel completed in 0:00:36.
08:00:07 Total time: 0:00:36

In this case - nagios-plugins-2.3.3-1.el6 exists in http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/ but not in our local repos where the latest version is 2.3.2. However, other packages have been mentioned too.

Manually syncing the repo generates the same error as above, consistently:  /usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync --channel epelupdatesc6_5 --type yum

Google tells me this happens occasionally to people across previous versions of Spacewalk, so it may not be a 2.10 specific issue, although in one version Redhat blame a code problem; https://access.redhat.com/solutions/124363  - I'm not sure that's the case here.

Why is spacewalk having this issue, then apparently fixing itself an hour later? (I'm not sure it is fixing itself as the issue persists when run manually)

How do I fix it?

Thank you



  *   Upgrade issues: Following this guide, https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/wiki/HowToUpgrade Went okay until "spacewalk-setup -upgrade" when it failed and wiped config. However, a yum upgrade using the new repos completed successfully so I went with that.

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