On Red Hat Satellite, satellite-sync fails with 'ERROR: server.dump.channel_packages_short .. Timeout Exception'
Issue
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I'm getting the following error when attempting a satelite_sync:
10:29:12 SYNC ERROR: Exception reported from satellite Time: Thu Jan 13 10:29:12 2011 Exception type satellite_tools.syncLib.RhnSyncException Exception Handler Information Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/satellite-sync", line 143, in main return satsync.Runner().main() File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/satsync.py", line 226, in main ret = method() File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/satsync.py", line 314, in _step_short return self.syncer.processShortPackages() File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/satsync.py", line 915, in processShortPackages stream_loader.process(package_ids) File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/satsync.py", line 2101, in process stream = apply(self.wire_loader, args) File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/xmlWireSource.py", line 229, in getChannelShortPackagesXmlStream (self.systemid, channel, last_modified)) File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/xmlWireSource.py", line 174, in _openSocketStream raise RhnSyncException, lastErrorMsg RhnSyncException: ERROR: server.dump.channel_packages_short('<the systemid>', 'rhel-x86_64-ws-4', 1294743966): Timeout Exception
Environment
- Red Hat Satellite 5.4 and above
- Satellite-sync
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