This did the trick.

# foreman-rake foreman_tasks:cleanup 
TASK_SEARCH='label="Actions::Katello::Host::Erratum::ApplicableErrataInstall"' 
STATES="paused"

Thanks for the insight.

On Monday, 30 October 2017 14:13:24 UTC-6, pascalp wrote:
>
> You could try to either stop the tasks by label - example:
>
> sudo foreman-rake foreman_tasks:cleanup 
> TASK_SEARCH='label="Actions::Katello::Repository::Sync"' STATES="running" 
> NOOP=true
>
> or by id - example:
>
> sudo foreman-rake foreman_tasks:cleanup 
> TASK_SEARCH='id="aa929825-4fc6-4138-9b12-d3d4d00426cc"' STATES="running" 
> NOOP=true
>
> You might have to modify the "STATES" parameter (running/paused). Running 
> the commands with "NOOP=true" does not actually do anything but shows you 
> how many tasks would be removed were you to remove said parameter.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Pascal
>
> On Monday, October 30, 2017 at 8:04:09 PM UTC+1, Edward Clay wrote:
>>
>> Looking at this futher, it looks like the katello-tracer-uploader is 
>> available for COS7 but I'm not finding it for CentOS 6.x.
>>
>> On Wednesday, 25 October 2017 15:25:47 UTC-6, Lachlan Musicman wrote:
>>>
>>> On 26 October 2017 at 04:39, Edward Clay <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have some host that I attempted to apply applicable erratas to in a 
>>>> large group of host.  During that task some host failed and others 
>>>> completed.  I can't remember why they failed but I was able to manually 
>>>> update the systems once I fixed the issues with these host.  Now I have 
>>>> several paused "apply applicable erratas" task for these host and I can't 
>>>> get them to resume nor cancel.  I'm not sure how to clean this up since 
>>>> It's preventing me from updating to katello 3.4.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> errors in paused task:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 404 Resource Not Found 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> host did not respond within 20 seconds.  The task has been canceled.  
>>>>>> Is katello-agent installed and goferd running on the Host?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> the katello agent is installed on all managed host and the goferd 
>>>>>> agent is running.  I've even tried to restart the goferd agent without 
>>>>>> success.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I am not an expert on Katello by any stretch, but I have seen this 
>>>>> before and these are two methods I've used:
>>>>>  - try running katello-tracer-upload from the affected hosts. If that 
>>>>> doesn't work, 
>>>>>  - rebooting the Foreman server does. You probably don't need to go 
>>>>> that far. Maybe just "systemctl restart foreman-tasks"
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Looking at one of my servers I'm not finding a katello-tracer-upload.  
>>>> I do see a katell-package-uploader and katello-rhsm-cunsumer.  "yum 
>>>> provides */katello-tracer-upload" reruns no results. 
>>>>
>>>> After rebooting the foreman server i still get a fail on the upgrade 
>>>> check stating that 15 active task.  The only thing I can find are these 
>>>> same failed apply erratas task.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> My search shows that katello-tracer-upload comes from 
>>> katello-agent-3.0.0-2 or katello-host-tools-3.0.2-1 (caveat: I am using the 
>>> katello 3.4 repo) - look for those packages?
>>>
>>> cheers
>>> L.
>>>
>>>
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>>

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