[Spacewalk-list] dnf update - error centos 8

[Michael Mraka]

Stefan Sevasta:
> Hi
> 
> I am having the below issue when updating a centos 8 VM from spacewalk server:
> 
> This system is receiving updates from Red Hat Satellite or Spacewalk server.
> centos8_x86_64_base_channel
> Failed to download metadata for repo 'centos8_x86_64_base_channel'
> Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'centos8_x86_64_base_channel
> 
> >From /var/log/dnf.log the below errors are showing:
> 
> 2020-01-31T06:55:27Z INFO --- logging initialized ---
> 2020-01-31T06:55:27Z DDEBUG timer: config: 5 ms
...
> 2020-01-31T06:55:27Z DEBUG error: Downloading successful, but checksum doesn't match. Calculated: 8363e6110d29bba5ecb8a985e6c97eec5c7461f7(sha1)  Expected: 29a2ea2063493fde31ac0b5ed1216678b0cf1975(sha1)  (https:// server.domain.com /XMLRPC/GET-REQ/centos8_x86_64_base_channel/repodata/comps.xml).

Hello,

A file downloaded from spacewalk server is incoplete/corrupted.
It could be either network issue or disk failure (on server or client).

Regards,

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Michael Mráka
System Management Engineering, Red Hat