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Thu Jan 1 04:28:05 UTC 2015

Erik, 

What I would suggest you do is run yum manually on the host. Spacewalk does not capture standard error output and store it. So that error message could be anything. I ran into a situation about a week ago where I was trying to install upgraded RPM's on a system and it was failing. The return code was not what I expected. When I ran a yum update on the host itself, I found the filesystem where the updated RPM was to be installed did not have enough space in it to install. And it printed the output to what I think was standard error. I could be wrong though because I didn't investigate too much. So give running yum update on the host and see what's returned. Just something to think about when trying to debug. 

Regards, 

Glen Collins 

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that error is usually a yum error 

one of a couple things may be going on. 

first try restarting taskomatic you may have a stuck repo-bunch job 

On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Erik Johnson < erikj at gwu.edu > wrote: 

Thanks Matt, 
The only command I had not run previously was to clean metadata. After doing the clean commands again and queuing an update, I now see the following error on the console. While on the client I still see the empty transaction list error. Any logs that might help, I can provide. Still poking at it now. 

What I do find interesting is that at 453P yesterday, some updates actually made it through and applied properly, so the lack of consistency with no changes is interesting. 

System Failed Message spaceprddb1.es.gwu.edu 
	12/20/14 7:43:01 PM EST 	Fatal error in Python code occurred [[6]] 

Action 
Scheduled Time 
Succeeded Failed Pending Total 	Errata Update: ELSA-2014-2021 - Important: jasper security update 
	12/19/14 4:53:00 PM EST 	1 
	0 	0 	1 
	Errata Update: ELBA-2014-2018 - java-1.7.0-openjdk bug fix update 
	12/19/14 4:53:00 PM EST 	1 
	0 	0 	1 
	Errata Update: ELSA-2014-2021 - Important: jasper security update 
	12/19/14 1:46:00 PM EST 	1 
	0 	0 	1 
	Errata Update: ELBA-2014-2018 - java-1.7.0-openjdk bug fix update 
	12/19/14 1:46:00 PM EST 	1 
	0 	0 	1 
	Errata Update: ELBA-2014-2018 - java-1.7.0-openjdk bug fix update 
	12/19/14 10:53:15 AM EST 	1 
	0 	0 	1 

- 
Erik E. Johnson 
Division of Information Technology 
The George Washington University 

On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Matthew Madey < mattmadey at gmail.com > wrote: 

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Try running "rhn-profile-sync" then "yum clean metadata" on the client you are trying to update. Then schedule the update again and see if you get the same results. 

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Erik Johnson < erikj at gwu.edu > wrote: 

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Hi Everyone, 

Synopsis: 
Updates available 
Apply Errata 
run rhn_check -vvv or yum update 
rhn_check says transaction list empty, or package already installed 
yum update says nothing is available. 
Symptoms persist after repo sync, yum clean all, yum clean expire-cache 

I am a recent spacewalk user, just this week successfully deployed spacewalk 2.0 (Oracles variant) with an Oracle DB backend. I am having trouble deploying patches, however, and the following errors entail why. All that I have been able to find with my Google-Fu are errors dating back to <1.5 versions of spacewalk, and issues with yum-rhn-plugin. 

Being that I am new to spacewalk, after banging at the logs for a few days, I am still stumped and scratching my head on these errors. 

Any assistance is greatly appreciated. Thank you. 

I have synced all my repos at this point, and everything appears, on the surface, to look great. 

Repos : 
oraclelinux6-x86_64 | http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/latest/x86_64/ 
oraclelinux6-x86_64-mysql | http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/MySQL/x86_64/ 
oraclelinux6-x86_64-server | http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/spacewalk20/server/x86_64/ 
oraclelinux6-x86_64-playground | http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/playground/latest/x86_64/ 
oraclelinux6-x86_64-addons | http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/addons/x86_64/ 
oracle_6_uek3_x86_64 | http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/UEKR3/latest/x86_64 
puppetlabs_el6_x86_64 | http://yum.puppetlabs.com/el/6Client/products/x86_64/ 
oraclelinux6-x86_64-uek | http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/UEK/latest/x86_64/ 
epel_6_x86_64 | http://mirror.umd.edu/fedora/epel/6Server/x86_64/ 
oracle_uln_6_x86_64 | uln:///ol6_x86_64_latest 
oraclelinux6-x86_64-client | http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/spacewalk20/client/x86_64/ 

rhn_check -vvv on client 
yum-rhn-plugin-2.0.1-1.el6.noarch 
spacewalk-client-repo-2.0-3.el6.noarch 
spacewalk-oscap-0.0.16-1.el6.noarch 

D: More recent version of package kernel-uek-0:2.6.32-400.36.12.el6uek.x86_64 is already installed 
D: read h# 8 Header sanity check: OK 
D: read h# 529 Header sanity check: OK 
D: More recent version of package kernel-uek-firmware-0:2.6.32-400.36.12.el6uek.noarch is already installed 
D: read h# 620 Header sanity check: OK 
D: More recent version of package kernel-uek-devel-0:2.6.32-400.36.12.el6uek.x86_64 is already installed 
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_call packages.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 

Please see attached screenshots. 

Thank you for any assistance, I look forward to working with spacewalk and possibly assisting in development. 

- 
Erik E. Johnson 
Division of Information Technology 
The George Washington University 

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