[Spacewalk-list] question about patches pushed slow

[David Nutter]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:50:44AM +0200, Michiel van Es wrote:
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> You mean on the clients right?
> There is no osad running on the server.

Yes, sorry, I'm not being very clear. 

> And you mean a ping from the client to the server via spacewalk?

Yes, you can do that from the system info page. 

> > If osad is not running for whatever reason the clients will still wait
> > until rhnsd checks in and then if there are pending actions rhn_check
> > is invoked. Maybe start both rhnsd and rhn_check in the foreground on
> > a client and watch their debugging output during a "normal" scheduled
> > check in - that might give you a clue why rhn_check is hanging.
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> Hmm I think it has all to do with the not working osad connections.
> The /etc/init.d/osa-dispatcher start takes a lot of time..also running
> the /usr/sbin/osa-dispatcher -v does not provide any verbose info..

If Jabber isn't listening on the correct interfaces/ports
then waiting for those connection attempts to time out might be the
cause of your hang. If this is the issue & you can't get osa-dispatcher
itself to give out decent debugging info then maybe wireshark might
help.

Regards,

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