Client patching from Red Hat Satellite Server fails for a Particular child channel ?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 5.x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Issue

  • Package installation on client from a child channel fails to find package for update:
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: 1:xorg-x11-font-utils-7.2-11.el6.x86_64 (@anaconda-RedHatEnterpriseLinux-201301301459.x86_64/6.4)
           Requires: libXfont.so.1()(64bit)
           Removing: libXfont-1.4.5-2.el6.x86_64 (@anaconda-RedHatEnterpriseLinux-201301301459.x86_64/6.4)
               libXfont.so.1()(64bit)
           Updated By: libXfont-1.4.5-3.el6_5.i686 (rhel-x86_64-server-optional-6)
               Not found
           Available: libXfont-1.4.1-1.el6.x86_64 (rhel-x86_64-server-6)
               libXfont.so.1()(64bit)
           Available: libXfont-1.4.1-2.el6_1.x86_64 (rhel-x86_64-server-6)
               libXfont.so.1()(64bit)

Resolution

  • Delete the channel repodata on the satellite server and regenerate the same by restart the taskomatic service:
   # rm -rf /var/cache/rhn/repodata/<channel lable>
   # service taskomatic restart

  • Monitor the files under directory /var/cache/rhn/repodata/<Channel lable>/,at start we can see files with *.new extension. Once all files with *.new extension get removed then try the steps mentioned below on client.

  • On client system execute these commands:

  # rm -rf /var/cache/yum/* 
  # yum check-update 
  # yum update

Root Cause

  • Repodata of the particular channel on Red Hat Satellite Server was corrupt, regenerating the data resolved the issue.

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