[Spacewalk-list] An issue with Centos client with Spacewalk server for updating packages.

[David Nutter]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:48:44PM -0600, Krishnakumar Dharmarajan wrote:
> Hello Team,
> 
>  
> 
> I am having an issue with Centos client with Spacewalk server for
> updating packages.
> 
> I have a CentOS updates/Base/Epel channel which follows the updates as
> they come from CentOS. I have a client that was installed as CentOS 5.3
> and
> 
> is subscribed to this Base/Updates channel. I can see updates
> outstanding for it but when i try to apply those updates, it is not
> showing the repository at client system.
> 
>  
> 
> Yum repolist       shows nothing

Sounds like rhnplugin is broken in some way (disabled in
/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf?), but maybe there's another
explanaiton: I did have a system that lost its registration
credentials for the server and then behaved a bit like that.

Is the system checking in? If not then it could have lost its
registration creds. 

Also, what happens if you schedule an action at the server and run 

 rhn_check -vvvv

If you get authentication errors then maybe try reregistering the
system and deleting its old profile.

Regards,

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