Due to these sorts of nagging issues (especially when they proliferate across SCORES of servers), I finally set up a standard daily cron task (pushed out via the SW configuration management!) that does these actions daily on all clients:
/usr/bin/yum clean all /usr/bin/yum makecache /usr/sbin/rhn-profile-sync /sbin/service osad restart I find it handy to run that script "by hand" at times also. A sledgehammer approach, perhaps, but one with very little downside AFAIK. I'd say that that has eliminated 90% of the nagging one-off problems with connectivity (osad) and failed updates. FWIW. If you have root privileges to the spacewalk SERVER (which you presumably do), you may find that recreating the repodata for the affected channel may help. cd /var/cache/rhn/repodata/ remove the affected channel's directory tree then run (in spacecmd) the "softwarechannel_regenerateyumcache" command against that channel new repodata should then shortly re-appear (At which point, I've found that I may need to run the cron script (above) by hand on the client.) Andy Andy Ingham, MS, CISSP IT Infrastructure Fuqua School of Business Duke University From: <Boyd>, Robert <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Friday, April 17, 2015 at 1:03 PM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Yum client reports no update, But Spacewalk GUI reports that there are This problem continues. The master clearly sees that a number of packages need updating. For some reason on the client these packages are not being seen. I attempted scheduling updates from Spacewalk GUI. Then ran rhn_check on the client. Then I see this result on the master: Summary: Package Install scheduled by <username> Details: This action will be executed after 04/17/15 12:58:53 PM EDT. This action's status is: Failed. The client picked up this action on 04/17/15 12:59:09 PM EDT. The client completed this action on 04/17/15 12:59:15 PM EDT. Client execution returned "Error while executing packages action: empty transaction [[6]]" (code -1) Packages Scheduled: · xorg-x11-server-common-1.15.0-26.el6_6 · libipa_hbac-python-1.11.6-30.el6_6.4 · cyrus-sasl-2.1.23-15.el6_6.2 · scl-utils-20120927-27.el6_6 · kernel-2.6.32-504.12.2.el6 · sssd-1.11.6-30.el6_6.4 · dhcp-common-4.1.1-43.P1.el6_6.1:12 · busybox-1.15.1-21.el6_6:1 · nss-softokn-freebl-3.14.3-22.el6_6 · tzdata-2015b-1.el6 · kpartx-0.4.9-80.el6_6.3 · openssl-1.0.1e-30.el6_6.8 · samba-winbind-3.6.23-14.el6_6:0 · samba-winbind-clients-3.6.23-14.el6_6:0 · ntp-4.2.6p5-3.el6_6 · krb5-libs-1.10.3-37.el6_6 · sssd-krb5-common-1.11.6-30.el6_6.4 · perf-2.6.32-504.12.2.el6 · flac-1.2.1-7.el6_6 · krb5-workstation-1.10.3-37.el6_6 · freetype-2.3.11-15.el6_6.1 · cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.23-15.el6_6.2 · unzip-6.0-2.el6_6 · dhclient-4.1.1-43.P1.el6_6.1:12 · augeas-libs-1.0.0-7.el6_6.1 · samba4-libs-4.0.0-66.el6_6.rc4:0 · samba-common-3.6.23-14.el6_6:0 · tzdata-java-2015b-1.el6 · sssd-client-1.11.6-30.el6_6.4 · dracut-004-356.el6_6.1 · curl-7.19.7-40.el6_6.4 · cyrus-sasl-plain-2.1.23-15.el6_6.2 · libsss_idmap-1.11.6-30.el6_6.4 · libcurl-7.19.7-40.el6_6.4 · sssd-proxy-1.11.6-30.el6_6.4 · libipa_hbac-1.11.6-30.el6_6.4 · openssl-devel-1.0.1e-30.el6_6.8 · krb5-devel-1.10.3-37.el6_6 · libssh2-1.4.2-1.el6_6.1 · nss-softokn-3.14.3-22.el6_6 · sssd-common-1.11.6-30.el6_6.4 · python-sssdconfig-1.11.6-30.el6_6.4 · shadow-utils-4.1.4.2-19.el6_6.1:2 · sssd-ipa-1.11.6-30.el6_6.4 · xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.15.0-26.el6_6 · alsa-utils-1.0.22-9.el6_6 · sssd-krb5-1.11.6-30.el6_6.4 · kexec-tools-2.0.0-280.el6_6.2 · ruby-1.8.7.374-4.el6_6 · kernel-headers-2.6.32-504.12.2.el6 · sssd-ad-1.11.6-30.el6_6.4 · kernel-firmware-2.6.32-504.12.2.el6 · gdbm-1.8.0-38.el6 · openjpeg-libs-1.3-11.el6 · gdbm-devel-1.8.0-38.el6 · tcsh-6.17-25.el6_6 · sssd-ldap-1.11.6-30.el6_6.4 · dracut-kernel-004-356.el6_6.1 · nss-softokn-freebl-3.14.3-22.el6_6 · ruby-libs-1.8.7.374-4.el6_6 · cyrus-sasl-gssapi-2.1.23-15.el6_6.2 · sssd-common-pac-1.11.6-30.el6_6.4 Time: 04/17/15 12:58:53 PM EDT ________________________________ Reschedule: This history event was caused by a failed scheduled action. If you have corrected the problem, you may reschedule the action b Robert Boyd Sr. Systems Engineer PeopleFluent p. 919-645-2972 | c. 919-306-4681 e. [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [http://mktg.peoplefluent.com/rs/peopleclick/images/140410_PF4colorLOGOx150.png]<http://www.peoplefluent.com/> Click here<http://www.peoplefluent.com/> to experience the power of the new PeopleFluent Mirror Suite (tm) Visit: www.peoplefluent.com<http://www.peoplefluent.com/> | Read: PeopleFluent Blog<http://peoplefluent.com/resources/peoplefluent-blog> | Follow: @PeopleFluent<http://twitter.com/peoplefluent>
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