Scheduled patches from RHN or Red Hat Satellite fails with "Error while executing packages action: empty transaction [[6]] "
Issue
- Scheduled updates form RHN/RHN-Satellite fails with following message on the client system:
"Error while executing packages action: empty transaction [[6]] "
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"Auto Errata Apply" fails with " Error while executing packages action: empty transaction [[6]] "
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Channels are refreshed nightly for new patch updates. When scheduling a server to be updated, most of the patches are deployed but its failing for few critical errata.
Environment
- Red Hat Satellite
- Red Hat Network(RHN)
- yum
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