[Spacewalk-list] FW:- systems not getting updated

Milan Zazrivec mzazrivec at redhat.com
Tue Jul 31 06:19:38 UTC 2012


On Monday 30 July 2012 21:00:43 Caetano, Greg (APS VirtualSystem/VMware) 
wrote:
> This is RHN Satellite v5.4.1
> 
> Has anyone else seen this behavior with client reporting "'Error while
> executing packages action: empty transaction', {})" when attempting system
> updates
> 
> 
> I can see that there are updates available for all three of them, but if I
> do a "yum list updates", nothing shows up. If I set the system at the
> Satellite to push out the updates, and then run rhn_check from the
> clients, it silently fails. The /var/log/up2date log on the client shows
> repeated entries of "up2date logging into up2date server" followed by
> "up2date successfully retrieved authentication token from up2date server",
> but the updates are never transferred. The /var/log/yum.log file shows the
> last update coming in on June 05. I ran a tcpdump session during one of
> the rhn_check runs but it just shows repeated cycles that match those
> repeating entries in /var/log/up2date, presumably one for each package
> available for download.
> 
> "# rhn_check -vvvv" reports "'Error while executing packages action: empty
> transaction', {})" on the systems. A search of bugzilla showed this error
> in a Fedora release but not RHEL. The fix was to updated yum but we are
> still seeing the issue after manually updating yum to the latest release.
> RHEL6.1 and RHEL6.2 systems are affected.
> 
> 
> D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Name rdonly mode=0x0
> 
> D:  read h#     618 Header sanity check: OK
> 
> D: added key gpg-pubkey-fd431d51-4ae0493b to keyring
> 
> D:  read h#     619 Header sanity check: OK
> 
> D: added key gpg-pubkey-2fa658e0-45700c69 to keyring
> 
> D: Using legacy gpg-pubkey(s) from rpmdb
> 
> D:  read h#     633 Header sanity check: OK
> 
> D:  read h#     632 Header sanity check: OK
> 
> D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Name
> 
> D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> 
> D: closed   db environment /var/lib/rpm
> 
> D: Sending back response((6,), 'Error while executing packages action:
> empty transaction', {})
> 
> D: do_callpackages.checkNeedUpdate('rhnsd=1',){}
> 
> 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/Name
> 
> D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> 
> D: closed   db environment /var/lib/rpm

What's the version of yum-rhn-plugin on the systems showing the error?

-MZ




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