Satellite Sync is failing with "OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument:" error for some packages.

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Issue

  • Satellite Sync is failing with "OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument:" error for some packages:
Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/threading.py", line 442, in __bootstrap
    self.run()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/satsync.py", line 2141, in run
    rpmManip.write_file(stream)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/syncLib.py", line 204, in write_file
    setPermsPath(self.full_path, user='apache', group='apache', chmod=0644)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/spacewalk/common/fileutils.py", line 315, in setPermsPath
    os.chown(path, uid, gid)
OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: '/var/satellite/redhat/NULL/42f/samba3x-common/0:3.5.10-0.109.el5_8/i386/42fb9392764aaf540935be8c1156b4dc/samba3x-common-3.5.10-0.109.el5_8.i386.rpm'

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 5.4
  • /var/satellite mounted on NFS

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