[Spacewalk-list] channel weirdness

[Guy Matz]

All better!!  Thank you!!!

On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 11:37 AM Bill ten Bensel <WHTENBEN at up.com> wrote:

> The .new is from taskomatic updating the repository.  It creates the .new
> to allow systems to continue to receive the “older” repository information
> until it has completed the task.  When taskomatic finishes, it moves the
> .new to the expected files.  If this hasn’t completed, then you will want
> to check taskomatic and/or recreate the repodata for that channel.
>
>
>
> Check the taskomatic logs on the spacewalk to see what is going on.  à
> /var/log/rhn/rhn_taskomatic_daemon.log
>
>
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> Restart taskomatic and check the logs.
>
> Recreate the cache:  (If doing the move, any systems checking in could
> receive errors.  If you have abrt enabled on your systems, you could see
> yum or rhn generate errors.)
>
>
> Move /var/cache/rhn/repodata/prod-centos7-x86_64 to another location
>
> spacewalk-api --server={spacewalk-fqdn} --user={ID}
> --password={my_secret}  channel.software.regenerateYumCache %session%
> prod-centos7-x86_64
>
>
>
> Thanks and good luck
>
>
>
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> spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com> *On Behalf Of *Guy Matz
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 14, 2021 10:03 AM
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> *Subject:* Re: [Spacewalk-list] channel weirdness
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> That didn't exactly work.  The checksums in the repomd.xml file were not
> right . . .  After manually updating repomd.xml I now get:
>
> matz at nyc-lv01 ~ $ sudo yum repolist
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, priorities, rhnplugin,
> versionlock
> This system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or Red Hat Satellite.
> Determining fastest mirrors
> schro                                                    | 2.9 kB     00:00
> schro/7/x86_64/primary_db                                  |  97 kB   00:00
> prod-centos7-x86_64                                      | 1.0 kB     00:00
> prod-centos7-x86_64/group                                | 893 kB     00:00
> prod-centos7-x86_64/primary                              |  12 MB     00:01
> Error: Error reading from file
> /var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/prod-centos7-x86_64/primary.xml.gz: CRC check
> failed 0x584621a9 != 0xfd19ef97L
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> Any advice?
>
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> On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 10:02 AM Guy Matz <guymatz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ah!!  So it looks like my metadata files got created, but with a ".new"
> extension!!
>
>
>
> matz at pdx-lv01:/var/cache/rhn/repodata/prod-centos7-x86_64$ ls -lrt
> total 608196
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root      1039 May  3 08:48 repomd.xml
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  11414104 May  3 08:48 primary.xml.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 248871638 May  3 08:48 other.xml.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  27746744 May  3 08:48 filelists.xml.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  12895419 Jun 25 13:48 primary.xml.gz.new
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  32289039 Jun 25 13:48 filelists.xml.gz.new
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 289556494 Jun 25 13:48 other.xml.gz.new
>
>
>
> What's up with that?! Can I just mv the .new files in place?
>
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> On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 1:10 PM Brian Long <briandlong at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There are a couple of things to check.  When you promote a channel
> using spacewalk-manage-channel-lifecycle, it takes a while for spacewalk to
> generate the new yum metadata (could be 5-15 minutes depending on your
> server and other activities).  You can run "ls -ltr /var/cache/rhn/repodata
> | tail" to see if the channel you promoted has updated the metadata.  Also,
> yum-based systems typically cache the repodata locally for six hours.
> Unless you run "yum clean metadata" and "yum check-update" manually, it
> could be up to six hours before your hosts see the updated repodata from
> Spacewalk.  This can be lowered in /etc/yum.conf on each client, but it
> will add more load to your spacewalk server.
>
>
>
> /Brian/
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 6:48 PM Guy Matz <guymatz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello!  I have archived my prod channel and promoted from test to prod,
> however my clients don't see the new updates in the prod channel!  I see
> the updates on the spacewalk server, but not on the clients!  What's up
> with that?!
>
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