[Spacewalk-list] Possible BUG: Requested packages have already been installed on CentOS 5 clients

Jan Hutař jhutar at redhat.com
Mon Jan 25 19:47:06 UTC 2016


On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 15:14:54 +0000 "Coffman, Anthony J"
<Tony.Coffman at snapon.com> wrote:

> I ran into this one yesterday unexpectedly.
> 
> It seems there may be a bug in the SW 2.4 client that seems to
> only affect EL5 clients.  I tested this on CentOS 5 i386 but
> not on x86_64 yet.  I haven't seen it on EL6, EL7, or SuSE.
> 
> When you scheduled a package install/update action, you get
> this back
> 
> Client execution returned "Requested packages already
> installed" (code 0)
> 
> The 0 return code makes it look successful but no package
> changes are made.   Because of the change to spread out errata
> cache processing over time you can easily be fooled into
> thinking that you have successfully applied updates when in
> reality nothing was actually applied.
> 
> The requested packages are not actually already installed.
> 
> I rolled one test system back to the 2.3 client manually and
> it does fix the issue.
> 
> Has anybody else run into this problem?
> 
> --Tony

As a first step, could you please run rhn_check on the client
with "-vv" option and sent the full output? Also `rpm -qa |
sort` might be handy.

Regards,
Jan



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