satellite v5.5 - sync stuck at "Freeing read locks"

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Hi Everyone,

 

I am playing around with satellite v5.5....it's a freshly installed system and I keep getting stuck at the message "Freeing read locks" (as shown below).  So far, I have let it sit for approx 8hrs with no progress.  Once taskomatic died for no reason but upon restart there was no changes...still stuck.  So, I am just curious if others have experienced this behavior since I do not recall seeing this in earlier versions of satellite/spacewalk.  

 

Below I have listed some of the things that I have tried...all with no luck unfortunately.

1. multiple restarts of satellite service and reboots then resyncing
2. removing the channel with "spacewalk-remove-channel -c rhel-x86_64-server-6" and resyncing
3. the standard cache clearing trick "rm -rf /var/cache/rhn/satsync/*"
4. yum-complete-transaction  -  not even sure if this applies here but I found it on some forum and tried it....no luck
5. different options with satellite-sync such as --force-all-packages

 

<<<<Beginning of output from the sync>>>>>

 

14:23:57 Red Hat Network Satellite - live synchronization
14:23:57    url: https://satellite.rhn.redhat.com
14:23:57    debug/output level: 1
14:23:58    db:  rhnsat/<password>@//localhost:1521/rhnsat.world
14:23:58
14:23:58 Retrieving / parsing channel-families data
14:24:06 channel-families data complete
14:24:06
14:24:06 Retrieving / parsing product names data
14:24:07 product names data complete
14:24:14
14:24:14 Retrieving / parsing arches data
14:24:15 arches data complete
14:24:15
14:24:15 Retrieving / parsing additional arches data
14:24:16 additional arches data complete
14:24:16
14:24:16 Retrieving / parsing channel data
14:25:14    p = previously imported/synced channel
14:25:14    . = channel not yet imported/synced
14:25:14    base-channels:
14:25:14       p rhel-x86_64-server-6                     8654
14:25:14
14:25:16 Channel data complete
14:25:16
14:25:16 Retrieving short package metadata (used for indexing)
14:25:16    Retrieving / parsing short package metadata: rhel-x86_64-server-6 (8654)
14:25:21 Diffing package metadata (what's missing locally?): rhel-x86_64-server-6
            ________________________________________
Diffing:    ######################################## - complete
14:29:18
14:29:18 Downloading package metadata
14:29:18    Retrieving / parsing *relevant* package metadata: rhel-x86_64-server-6 (2900)
14:29:18    * WARNING: this may be a slow process.
            ________________________________________
Downloading:######################################## - complete
14:38:04
14:38:04 Downloading rpm packages
14:38:04    Fetching any missing RPMs: rhel-x86_64-server-6 (2900)
14:39:03    Total size: 5.02 GiB
14:44:31       Downloaded 5.01 GiB of 5.02 GiB. Estimated remaining time: 5:17:32
14:44:31     2896/2900 Fetch successful: fence-agents-3.1.5-17.1.el6_3.x86_64.rpm (153920 bytes)
14:44:34       Downloaded 5.02 GiB of 5.02 GiB. Estimated remaining time: 0:11:47
14:44:34     2897/2900 Fetch successful: selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-155.el6_3.6.noarch.rpm (2748184 bytes)
14:44:37       Downloaded 5.02 GiB of 5.02 GiB. Estimated remaining time: 0:06:27
14:44:37     2898/2900 Fetch successful: selinux-policy-3.7.19-155.el6_3.6.noarch.rpm (1314680 bytes)
14:44:37       Downloaded 5.02 GiB of 5.02 GiB. Estimated remaining time: 0:02:00
14:44:37     2899/2900 Fetch successful: selinux-policy-minimum-3.7.19-155.el6_3.6.noarch.rpm (2485932 bytes)
14:44:40       Downloaded 5.02 GiB of 5.02 GiB. Estimated remaining time: 0:00:00
14:44:40     2900/2900 Fetch successful: selinux-policy-mls-3.7.19-155.el6_3.6.noarch.rpm (2419448 bytes)
14:44:40 Processing rpm packages complete
14:44:40
14:44:40 Importing package metadata
14:44:40    Importing *relevant* package metadata: rhel-x86_64-server-6 (2900)
            ________________________________________
Importing:  Freeing read locks for locker 0x10: 25537/140379561912064
Freeing read locks for locker 0x12: 25537/140379561912064

 

Thanks,

 

Nick Greene

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PM Red Hat Guru 3594 points
9 November 2012 5:38 AM

Hi Nick,

 

I haven't see such an error on satellite-sync. If it is always failing at "Importing package metadata" and with the same error then the first thing that I would recommend to check the underlying rpm db.

  • Are you able to install/update/remove a package on the satellite ?
  • Does `rpm -qa` lists the installed packages correctly ?

We might want to ensure the rpm db is not in a bad state and if it is then consider rebuilding the rpm db referring to the knowledge solution - How to rebuild my RPM database?

 

Additionally we can also increase the debug level in /etc/rhn/rhn.conf by setting/adding

debug=6

execute satellite-sync and check if we see any additional details on the console as well as /var/log/rhn/rhn_server_satellite.log

 

Paresh

NG Red Hat Pro 490 points
12 November 2012 1:52 PM

Thanks for the reply/suggestions.  Based on only 1 reply, apparently, not too many people are having this issue.  But here is what worked for me.  Perhaps, someone else might find it useful.

 

Looking in /var/lib/rpm I noticed that all of my systems  _db*  files were missing for the rpm database.  However, I was still able to run rpm commands successfully like "rpm -qa" and I even installed a test rpm with no issues.  I then ran "rpm -vv --rebuilddb" and still no luck.  Next I ran "rpm --initdb" and finally the _db* files were created.  I then ran the sync and it worked.

 

Nick Greene.

David Powles's picture Red Hat Guru 25389 points
13 November 2012 3:30 AM

Nick, thanks for following up with your solution here. Hopefully it will help out anyone who runs into this down the line.

PM Red Hat Guru 3594 points
19 November 2012 7:03 AM

Thank You Nick for sharing steps which worked for you. Based on it, I have created a knowledge solution Why does satellite-sync keeps getting stuck at the message "Freeing read locks for locker ..." ?