Dell Repo Problem / Error

[Michael E Brown]

On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:57:26AM -0600, Sturgis, Grant wrote:
> Michael E Brown wrote:
> > On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 02:49:17PM -0600, Sturgis, Grant wrote:
> >  > Greetings,
> >  >
> >  > I am experiencing the same problem reported here:
> >  >
> >  > http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2007-May/030998.html
> >  >
> >  > Where  up2date -i srvadmin-base gives the error:
> > 
> > Is this 100% reproduceable? If you run the up2date command 5 times does
> > it happen every time? Any new info in /var/log/up2date? I dont see this
> > in my environment and dont quite see the root cause. I'm trying to
> > determine if this is a latency problem with the repo or if it is some
> > client side error.
> 
> Indeed it is 100% reproduceable.  I ran up2date five times and get the 
> same thing every time.  I have included the up2date output / errors as 
> well as tail -100 /var/log/up2date below.

Thanks for the logs. Looking at the logs, it is barfing trying to parse
the header.info file from the repo. Do you have any transparent proxies
or other proxies at all? It looks to me like you are getting somehow a
corrupted copy of the header.info file. (I believe that up2date stores
this under /var/cache/up2date somewhere. You should be able to compare
this copy with the actual copy to see what the problem is.)

You might be also able to clear the cache to see if it clears the
problem up.

I'm in San Diego at the Red Hat Summit right now and have limited access
to email this week. Sorry it has taken so long to get back with you.
--
Michael