[Spacewalk-list] no cache rebuild after cleanupfrom /var/cache/rhn

[Thomas von Steiger]

I have tryed everything,
yum clean all
remove everything in /var/cache/yum
nothing, allways the same problem.

Thomas

On 13.04.2009, at 22:21, Worsham, Michael wrote:

> Try 'yum clean all' then 'yum check-update'
>
> -- Michael
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Thomas von
> Steiger
> Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 4:17 PM
> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] no cache rebuild after cleanupfrom
> /var/cache/rhn
>
>
> On 09.04.2009, at 16:05, Pradeep Kilambi wrote:
>
>> Cliff wrote:
>>> Thomas von Steiger wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have stopped spacewalk and removed everthing from /var/cache/rhn.
>>>> After restart from spacewalk 0.5 there is no rebuild of the cache.
>>>>
>>>> From the cent5 clients i get by yum check-update:
>>>>
>>>> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml)
>>>>
>>>> The only errors i can found in the log's are from osad/jabberd:
>>>>
>>>> 2009/04/08 23:37:52 +02:00 17861 0.0.0.0: osad/jabber_lib.__init__
>>>> 2009/04/08 23:37:52 +02:00 17861 0.0.0.0: osad/
>>>> jabber_lib.print_message('socket error',)
>>>> 2009/04/08 23:37:52 +02:00 17861 0.0.0.0: osad/
>>>> jabber_lib.print_message('Could not connect to jabber server',
>>>> 'spacewalk2.dom.local')
>>>> 2009/04/08 23:37:52 +02:00 17861 0.0.0.0: osad/
>>>> jabber_lib.setup_connection('Could not connect to any jabber
>>>> server',)
>>>> 2009/04/08 23:37:52 +02:00 17861 0.0.0.0: osad/
>>>> jabber_lib.main('Unable to connect to jabber servers, sleeping 10
>>>> seconds',)
>>>>
>>>> [root at spacewalk2 log]# grep cache /etc/rhn/rhn.conf
>>>> repomd_cache_mount_point = /var/cache
>>>>
>>>> What can i do?
>>>>
>>>> Thomas
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>> Just restarting spacewalk will not rebuild the cache. The cache
>> regenration should have started when you're centos client checked in.
>>
>> check your /var/cache/rhn/repodata and the cache should be generated
>> in a bit. The cache generation for repodata is triggered only when
>> there is a change to the channel state(through means like rhnpush,
>> satsync, api or ui) or when a client checks in and cache is missing.
>>
>> Check back in a bit and cache should be there,
>>
>> ~ Prad
>
> I have tested this again and found, on all the clients i get this
> error message since update to 0.5.
> In the meantime i have reinstalled all the rhn client rpm's from new
> and registerd success for new on the spacewalk.
> rhel-instnum is installed on client and server:
>
> [root at cent5n1 rhn]# yum check-update
> Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
> Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>  * centos-5-base-x86_64: spacewalk2.dom.local
>  * centos-5-updates-x86_64: spacewalk2.dom.local
>  * centos-5-centosplus-x86_64: spacewalk2.dom.local
>  * centos-5-extras-x86_64: spacewalk2.dom.local
>  * spacewalk-client-tools: stahnma.fedorapeople.org
> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for
> repository: centos-5-base-x86_64. Please verify its path and try again
>
> On the spacewalk self i can see this log for this request in httpd/
> access_log:
>
> cent5n1.dom.local - - [13/Apr/2009:22:04:32 +0200] "POST /XMLRPC HTTP/
> 1.1" 200 4133 "-" "rhn.rpclib.py/$Revision: 102540 $"
> 192.168.1.12 - - [13/Apr/2009:22:04:34 +0200] "GET /XMLRPC/GET-REQ/
> centos-5-base-x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 404 9 "-"
> "urlgrabber/3.1.0"
>
> and in rhn/rhn_server_xmlrpc.log:
>
> 2009/04/13 22:04:33 +02:00 15832 192.168.1.12: rhnSQL/
> driver_cx_Oracle.connect('Connecting to database', 'xe')
> 2009/04/13 22:04:34 +02:00 15832 192.168.1.12: xmlrpc/
> up2date.listChannels(1000010042,)
>
> and there is nothing in the cache.
> What can be wrong there?
>
> Thomas
>
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