Hello Jason, ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jason M. Nielsen" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 6:49:31 PM > Subject: [Spacewalk-list] SW shows updates, yum does not > Spacewalk 1.4 > RHEL5 server > RHEL5 client > > I recently updated a system via the Spacewalk GUI and it appeared to > all > work as expected. Shortly thereafter I noticed it was showing 82 more > updates available in the GUI. Odd as none of the channels had been > updated. Apparently newer packages, downloaded long before this client
did you updated some packages not using SW? Say by running yum update on client manually. > update was run, did not show up in the update list and were not pushed > out (ie: it installed a slightly older than most current version of > "http" but newer than that which was on the client at the time of > update). > > This client now shows no updates via client side command line via Yum. > Yet in the Spacewalk gui the packages are listed as requiring an > update. Can you give us example of package in SW that is reported as needed for update - it's version, the version currently present on client. > > I have cleared out yum entirely with yum clean all etc client side. Did you try to delete entire /var/cache/yum/<channel> directory or just yum clean all? > > The channels are subscribed and available etc. Can you check channel where this package is, check what date/time is in Last Modified a Last Build Repo, then go on client to /var/cache/yum/<subdirectory_of_this_channel> and check times of repomd.xml, primary and other files using ls -l. > > The channels are not in progress for a repo cache refresh, they all > indicate "Completed". > > Spacewalk has been restarted several times. Have you tried rhn-profile-sync? > > The only time I have seen anything like this was on RHEL4 and having > to > register clients twice. This is a first on RHEL5. > > Anyone have an idea what might be wrong and how to resolve this? > > Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > Spacewalk-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list -- Martin Minar | mminar @ #satellite* Satellite QA, Red Hat "Discovery brings joyfulness. Understanding brings domination." _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
