[Spacewalk-list] Updates not seen as needed for clients

Tue Sep 13 14:57:07 UTC 2011

I have occasionally found the yum clean all does not seem to properly 
clean out the yum-rhn-plugin cache, so I delete 
/var/cache/yum/<channelname> to make sure.

Jonathan

On Tue 13 Sep 2011 09:38:31 AM CDT, Jason M. Nielsen wrote:
> I just have the location of the key as well and no additional 
> information and clients can use the channels without issue. Any time 
> GPG keys have been an issue the error witnessed was explicit about 
> lack of signing so doubtful thats related to your issue.
>
> Have you restarted the Spacewalk services? Seems some have had issues 
> with this when taskomatic is having problems or is not running.
>
> On 09/13/2011 08:22 AM, Pierre Casenove wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I've made a network capture. I have a doubt:
>> In the base channel, i've put the following information in the GPG
>> related information:
>> GPG key URL:file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release
>> GPG key ID:(none entered)
>> GPG key Fingerprint:(none entered)
>>
>> On the clients, the GPG key are imported:
>> # rpm -q --queryformat "%{SUMMARY}\n" gpg-pubkey
>> gpg(Red Hat, Inc. (release key) <security at redhat.com
>> <mailto:security at redhat.com>>)
>>
>> So I don't think that the issue is related to the GPG
>>
>> I can't find any docs indicating what should be put in the GPG related
>> information on the spacewalk server? Are these information mandatory?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Pierre
>>
>> 2011/9/13 Pierre Casenove <pcasenove at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:pcasenove at gmail.com>>
>>
>> Thanks for the answer:
>> 1) I checked the details of the base channel, the repo cache is sync'ed:
>> Last Modified:2011-09-12 11:11:24 CEST
>> Last Repo Build:2011-09-12 11:11:24 CEST
>> Repo Cache Status:Completed
>>
>> 2) For information, I used rhnpush and not reposync to push the rpms
>> in the base channel.
>>
>> 3) I don't have any process related to a repo sync running on my server.
>>
>> I don't know what's wrong....
>>
>> Pierre
>>
>>
>> 2011/9/13 Jason M. Nielsen <jnielsen at myriad.com
>> <mailto:jnielsen at myriad.com>>
>>
>> Doubt these are the only situation but under SW 1.4. 1)RHEL4
>> which required deleting and registering the system again.
>> 2)Channels/Repos were still in a process of sync'ing their repo
>> cache. You can see this from the Channels details page.
>>
>> I just had a similar issue but in my case I was seeing updates
>> available SW side but not client. I did all the typical yum
>> clean all, profile syncs, rhn_check checks, channel repo cache
>> sync etc and so forth. I even restarted the SW services. Nothing
>> worked.
>>
>> I then noticed that reposyncs were still running (ie: ps auxwww
>> | grep repo). Somehow they appear to have been causing problems
>> with this even though the repos were unrelated to the clients I
>> saw issues on. Within minutes of the reposync's finishing all
>> updates showed up.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 09/13/2011 01:57 AM, Pierre Casenove wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>> After a day, the clients still don't see the updates.
>> I've checked /var/log/up2date file on the client, but
>> couldn't find
>> anything interesting.
>> From the spacewalk gui, when I select the latest kernel
>> package and
>> then click on "Target Systems" tabs, my clients are listed,
>> though
>> spacewalk says they doesn't need any update (I've attached a
>> screenshot
>> to be clear).
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help,
>>
>> Pierre
>>
>>
>> 2011/9/12 Pierre Casenove <pcasenove at gmail.com
>> <mailto:pcasenove at gmail.com> <mailto:pcasenove at gmail.com
>> <mailto:pcasenove at gmail.com>>>
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>> I have a spacewalk 1.5 installation on PGSQL backend.
>> I have a base channel containing RHEL 5 x64 rpms.
>> My test clients have RHEL 5.6 installed.
>> I've rhnpushed the rpm of RHEL 5.7 in the base channel.
>> The problem is that in the web ui, no packages are
>> marcked for updates.
>> When I connect on a client, and launched yum update
>> command, here is
>> the (filtered) output:
>> Transaction Summary
>> Install 1 Package(s)
>> Upgrade 178 Package(s)
>> Total download size: 287 M
>> Is this ok [y/N]: N
>>
>> Here is the log when running rhn_check -vvvv :
>> hostname ~ # 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
>> D: do_call packages.checkNeedUpdate ('rhnsd=1',) {}
>> Loaded plugins: rhnplugin
>> D: opening db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv
>> D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly
>> mode=0x0
>> D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Providename
>> rdonly mode=0x0
>> D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Providename
>> D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages
>> D: closed db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages
>> D: May free Score board((nil))
>> Config time: 0.069
>> Setting up Package Sacks
>> D: login(forceUpdate=False) invoked
>> D: readCachedLogin invoked
>> D: Checking pickled loginInfo, currentTime= 1315834359.91 ,
>> createTime= 1315834345.24 , expire-offset= 3600.0
>> D: readCachedLogin(): using pickled loginInfo set to
>> expire at
>> 1315837945.24
>> D: rpcServer: Calling XMLRPC up2date.listChannels
>> pkgsack time: 0.076
>> rpmdb time: 0.000
>> repo time: 0.003
>> D: local action status: (0, 'rpm database not modified
>> since last
>> update (or package list recently updated)', {})
>> D: rpcServer: Calling XMLRPC registration.welcome_message
>> D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Providename
>> D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages
>> D: closed db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages
>> D: May free Score board((nil))
>>
>>
>>
>> I've ran rhn_check 6 hours after rhnpushing the updates.
>> Is there a
>> problem in my setup? Where could I find useful information?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for you help,
>>
>> Pierre
>>
>>
>>
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