[Spacewalk-list] Delete package issue

[Tomas Lestach]

Hello,

I'd recommend to stop tomcat (or all spacewalk services),
increase the -Xmx parameter (heap size) in /etc/sysconfig/tomcat[56]* file,
start the service(s)
and try again.

As a quick workaround, it could work.


Regards,
--
Tomas Lestach
Red Hat Satellite Engineering, Red Hat


----- Original Message -----
> 
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> 	
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> The spacewalk we are using is 2.0. It is running fine except deleting bulk
> amount of packages. we need to remove some of repos and channels no longer
> needed and free up some space. I used spacecmd to do this.
> 
> spacecmd
> repo_delete rhel5_i386_os
> repo_delete rhel5_x86_64_extras
> repo_delete rhel5_x86_64_os
> repo_delete rhel5_x86_64_rhn-tools
> repo_delete rhel5_x86_64_supplementary
> softwarechannel_delete rhel5*
> 
> channels and repos removed correctly, but when I try to remove packages which
> do not belong to any channels, it failed:
> spacecmd {SSM:0}> package_listorphans
> ERROR: <ProtocolError for localhost/rpc/api: 503 Service Temporarily
> Unavailable>
> 
> spacecmd {SSM:0}> package_removeorphans
> ERROR: <ProtocolError for localhost/rpc/api: 500 Internal Server Error>
> 
> if I delete packages from Web GUI for 500 packages at a time, it works fine.
> when I look at /var/log/rhn/rhn_web_api.log . this is what I see
> 
> [2015-05-01 13:20:26,073] ERROR - REQUESTED FROM: 127.0.0.1 CALL:
> channel.software.listPackagesWithoutChannel(918xd5d704017ca211136d82223faaf455ef)
> CALLER: (isoadmin) TIME: 25.504 seconds redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcFault:
> unhandled internal exception: Java heap space at
> com.redhat.rhn.frontend.xmlrpc.BaseHandler.invoke(BaseHandler.java:165) at
> redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcDispatcher.dispatch(XmlRpcDispatcher.java:123) at
> com.redhat.rhn.frontend.xmlrpc.RhnXmlRpcServer.execute(RhnXmlRpcServer.java:54)
> at
> com.redhat.rhn.frontend.xmlrpc.XmlRpcServlet.doPost(XmlRpcServlet.java:162)
> at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:637) at
> javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717) at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
> at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
> at
> com.opensymphony.sitemesh.webapp.SiteMeshFilter.obtainContent(SiteMeshFilter.java:129)
> at
> com.opensymphony.sitemesh.webapp.SiteMeshFilter.doFilter(SiteMeshFilter.java:77)
> at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
> at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
> at
> com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.LocalizedEnvironmentFilter.doFilter(LocalizedEnvironmentFilter.java:67)
> at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
> at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
> at
> com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.EnvironmentFilter.doFilter(EnvironmentFilter.java:100)
> at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
> at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
> at
> com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.SessionFilter.doFilter(SessionFilter.java:57)
> at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
> at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
> at
> com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:97)
> at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
> at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
> at
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
> at
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
> at
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
> at
> org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
> at
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
> at
> org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298)
> at org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler.invoke(JkCoyoteHandler.java:190) at
> org.apache.jk.common.HandlerRequest.invoke(HandlerRequest.java:291) at org.
> 
> 
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