[Spacewalk-list] problem to sync repositories with channel

[Berezovski, Vladimir]

Hi ,





1.  I'm  testing  SpaceWalk  1.2 server and clients  on RH5  platform .



Following  the doc  https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/UploadFedoraContent  (Channels -> Manage Software Channels -> Choose the channel to be linked -> Repositories -> Select the repositories to be linked to the channel -> Update Repositories ->  Sync )  I'm trying to sync already  defined  repo  to a specific channel  but  receive  this  error :



 *   The scheduling service appears down. Please contact your Satellite administrator.



But , doing that in a command line I succeeded to upload packages  to the channel :



spacewalk-repo-sync --channel  rhel5.5   --url http://path_to_server<http://path_to_server/<http://path_to_server%3chttp:/path_to_server/>>



After that  I see all packages list  under the rhel5.5  channel . In the similar way I added   updates for the rhel5.5  child channel . Then moved to my clients in order to make them work with a server . But  there I stucked :



2. How to proceed with clients management/updates  - I found some threads that it is not required to define .repo file  on a client side under /etc/yum.repos.d/   ?



  At present neither management packages task from a server cannot be performed .



Running  Software Updater from RH5 client  utility pops me up "Unable to retrieve software information"  message .In details  I see the following "Cannot retrieve repository metadata ( repomd.xml) for repository rhel5.5."



Corresponding  request was  written in   /var/log/httpd/access_log   od the server :



10.63.200.41 - - [31/Jan/2011:09:54:18 +0200] "GET /XMLRPC/GET-REQ/rhel5.5/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 404 9 "-" "rhn.rpclib.py/$Revision$"



And I really  cannot see in /var/cache/rhn/reposync/rhel5.5/  repodata/repomd.xml  file .



I suspect that  packages were not synced  properly into the server while using spacewalk-repo-sync  command above .





3. While searching  some package  on  a server I got the following error:



Index files missing from search-server .



Regenerating indexes  by running: /etc/init.d/rhn-search cleanindex, then restart rhn-search  didn't help .



???



Thanks .





/Vlad .


Best regards  ,
Vladimir Berezovski
NDS IL , Unix group
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 +972 (2)   589-4287

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 +972 (54) 566-4287



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 vberezovski at nds.com<mailto:vberezovski at nds.com>




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