Why spacewalk-clone-by-date throws "xmlrpclib.Fault: <Fault -211: 'redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcFault: Cloned channel expected'>" error

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Issue

  • The spacewalk-clone-by-date is throwing error "xmlrpclib.Fault: "

  • In rhn_web_api.log we see :

[2013-04-26 14:37:11,279] ERROR - REQUESTED FROM: *callerIp* CALL: errata.cloneAsOriginal(53389xe13fa601dc8af12f59234b3898520fed, rhel-x86_64-server-6-u4, [RHSA-2010:0889, RHSA-2010:0894, RHSA-2010:0950, RHSA-2010:0966, RHSA-2011:0013, RHEA-2011:0014, RHSA-2011:0154, RHSA-2011:0170, RHSA-2011:0180, RHSA-2011:0197]) CALLER: (satadmin) TIME: 0.033 seconds
redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcFault: Cloned channel expected: rhel-x86_64-server-6-u4
        at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.xmlrpc.BaseHandler.invoke(BaseHandler.java:124)
        at redstone.xmlrpc.XmlRpcDispatcher.dispatch(XmlRpcDispatcher.java:123)
        at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.xmlrpc.RhnXmlRpcServer.execute(RhnXmlRpcServer.java:53)
        at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.xmlrpc.XmlRpcServlet.doPost(XmlRpcServlet.java:162)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:637)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
        at com.opensymphony.sitemesh.webapp.SiteMeshFilter.obtainContent(SiteMeshFilter.java:129)
        at com.opensymphony.sitemesh.webapp.SiteMeshFilter.doFilter(SiteMeshFilter.java:77)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
        at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.LocalizedEnvironmentFilter.doFilter(LocalizedEnvironmentFilter.java:67)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
        at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.EnvironmentFilter.doFilter(EnvironmentFilter.java:108)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
        at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.SessionFilter.doFilter(SessionFilter.java:55)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
        at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:97)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
        at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298)
        at org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler.invoke(JkCoyoteHandler.java:190)
        at org.apache.jk.common.HandlerRequest.invoke(HandlerRequest.java:291)
        at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.invoke(ChannelSocket.java:769)
        at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.processConnection(ChannelSocket.java:698)
        at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket$SocketConnection.runIt(ChannelSocket.java:891)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:690)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:736)

and in catalina.out we see :

Caused by: 
com.redhat.rhn.frontend.xmlrpc.InvalidChannelException: Cloned channel expected: rhel-x86_64-server-6-u4
        at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.xmlrpc.errata.ErrataHandler.clone(ErrataHandler.java:905)
        at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.xmlrpc.errata.ErrataHandler.cloneAsOriginal(ErrataHandler.java:980)
        ... 41 more
2013-04-26 14:37:11,278 [TP-Processor3] ERROR com.redhat.rhn.frontend.xmlrpc.BaseHandler - Caused by: 
com.redhat.rhn.frontend.xmlrpc.InvalidChannelException: Cloned channel expected: rhel-x86_64-server-6-u4
        at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.xmlrpc.errata.ErrataHandler.clone(ErrataHandler.java:905)
        at com.redhat.rhn.frontend.xmlrpc.errata.ErrataHandler.cloneAsOriginal(ErrataHandler.java:980)

Environment

  • Red Hat Network Satellite 5.4.1

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