[Spacewalk-list] ProtocolError XMLRPC: 500 Internal Server Error when syncing to profile

[Craig Ward]

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Craig.

On 24 March 2011 19:36, Jan Pazdziora <jpazdziora at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 02:19:26PM +1300, Craig Ward wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've successfully registered some RHEL servers against my satellite
>> server. The server is looking at the following channels:
>>
>> Parent 5.5Server-x86_64       Spacewalk Default Organization  3116    6
>> Child 5Server-x86_64_updates  Spacewalk Default Organization  3292    6
>> Child epel5-x86_64    Spacewalk Default Organization  6329    1
>> Child spacewalk-client-x86_64         Spacewalk Default Organization  22      6
>>
>> I can apply updates fine, run a rhn_check on the server and it
>> downloads around 200 updates successfully. Following the updates, I
>> can still do a rhn_check and it returns fines (no packages to update).
>>
>> However, if I try and roll back to a profile create before the updates
>> were applied I receive a error 500 when running rhn_check:
>>
>> # rhn_check -vvvv
>> D: opening  db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv
>> D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0
>> D: locked   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages
>> D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Providename rdonly mode=0x0
>> XMLRPC ProtocolError: <ProtocolError for <server name> /XMLRPC: 500
>> Internal Server Error>
>> D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Providename
>> D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages
>> D: closed   db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages
>>
>>
>> If I remove the package synchronisation job from the events for the
>> server I can rhn_check again.
>>
>> AFAIK I'm running the correct version of the rhn tools (from the
>> spacewalk repo):
>>
>> # rpm -qa | grep rhn
>> yum-rhn-plugin-1.3.8-1.el5
>> rhn-setup-1.3.12-1.el5
>> rhnsd-4.9.8-1.el5
>> rhn-client-tools-1.3.12-1.el5
>> rhn-setup-gnome-1.3.12-1.el5
>> rhnlib-2.5.33-1.el5
>> rhn-check-1.3.12-1.el5
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> Is there anything of interest in /var/log/httpd/*error_log? Was any
> traceback email sent?
>
> --
> Jan Pazdziora
> Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
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