[Spacewalk-list] Yum client reports no update, But Spacewalk GUI reports that there are

[Kobus Bensch]

I had this issue. I fixed it by running a repo sync manually.

On 31/03/2015 05:21, prmarino1 at gmail.com wrote:
> Try running rhn-profile-sync on the box in question then looking in 
> the GUI again. This can happen if some one does a manual update in yum 
> and does not run that command afterward.
> Its well documented in the install procedure for every red hat errata‎ 
> that you have to run that command after a yum update. You may also 
> want to consider adding cron.daily job to do this with anacron that 
> should execute it every day at a semi randomized time so you won't 
> over laod your spacewalk server and the added load to the host while 
> running it is negligible so it should not impact the performance of 
> the applications you are running unless the box is already severly 
> overloaded to begin with.
>
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
> *From: *Alan Pittman
> *Sent: *Monday, March 30, 2015 14:07
> *To: *spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> *Reply To: *spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> *Subject: *[Spacewalk-list] Yum client reports no update, But 
> Spacewalk GUI reports that there are
>
>
> Hi,
>   I'm having an issue with Spacewalk 2.0. I have two RHEL6 x86_64 
> servers that the Spacewalk GUI reports that there are available 
> updates. However, if I run yum on these two machines, nothing is 
> reported as being available for updating. I've done some Google 
> searches and this has been an issue in the past for some individuals 
> and occasionally the problem has been fixed by running yum clean all, 
> followed by deleting the /var/cache/yum directory. Then a yum 
> makecache. . I tried this and it didn't helped. I have also tried 
> deleting the profile for the server and attempting a re-register. That 
> didn't work either.  If anyone has any ideas/suggestions, I would like 
> to hear them.
>    Some other information that might be beneficial (I think):
>    - All updates have been performed using yum. No rpm --install or 
> --upgrade has been performed.
>    - Since I had deleted and re-registered the client, I didn't think 
> rhn-profile-sync would do any good, but I tried it anyhow. It didn't help.
>    - a complete shutdown of the Spacewalk server application and it's 
> corresponding postgres database was also attempted, again to avail.
>    - attempting to update the client from the Spacewalk GUI does not 
> work. The schedule task just goes into a pending state and never occurs.
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> Alan
> *Unix **/is/**user friendly. It’s just very selective about who its 
> friends are.*
>
>
>
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