hey brian. i manually installed it on the client side and now it is working. i really appreciate it. THANKS
james On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Brian Collins <[email protected]> wrote: > You're quite welcome - glad to help. > > The bug is really on the client side, so that's where it needs to go, > unfortunately. :) > > ------------------------------ > *From:* James McCabe > *Sent:* Tue 9/13/2011 6:58 PM > > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [Spacewalk-list] Error while executing packages action: > emptytransaction [[6]] > > thanks for the quick response Brian. the funny thing about all of this > is that that was the pkg i was trying to install LOL... now i did manually > install it with yum on the sat server itself but i did not install it on the > client yet . does it have to be on both of them for the update to work from > the sat server? i will yum it on the clients tomorrow and see if that > fixes it. > > once again, thanks for your input it is highly appreciated :-D > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Brian Collins <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yep. There was a recent update to yum-rhn-plugin that introduced a bug >> that causes this exact problem (version 0.5.4-22.el5_7.1). The long-term >> solution is to get the version of yum-rhn-plugin that was put out this week >> (version 0.5.4-22.el5_7.2). >> >> I just set up a remote command on my machines that installed >> yum-rhn-plugin specifically. >> >> Short-term, you can do: >> -yum clean all >> -rm -rf /var/cache/yum/* >> -rhn_check -v >> >> Funny note about the bug: it is only triggered by running 'rhn_check' with >> no options. Adding any number of '-v' after the command doesn't trigger it. >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* James McCabe >> *Sent:* Tue 9/13/2011 4:19 PM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* [Spacewalk-list] Error while executing packages action: >> empty transaction [[6]] >> >> my updates are failing when i try to update my satellite clients using >> my redhat satellite server running rhel 5.7. I schedule the event and after >> it gets picked up, it fails with the error >> >> Client execution returned "Error while executing packages action: empty >> transaction [[6]]" (code -1) >> >> i am able to run the yum update on the client and it will perform the >> updates but when going through the satellite server it errors out. >> >> any ideas?? >> >> >> Thanks >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Spacewalk-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Spacewalk-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list >
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