I'm not sure how to reproduce this issue. I stumbled into it when testing kickstarts for ppc64le, but I'm not sure why no one has hit this issue before. If you a schedule a kickstart for a system that is currently kickstarting first we have the cancell the existing kickstart session. There is code that attempts to do this, and it takes the current action and attempts to walk up the tree to find the original action so it can cancel that one. For example if the current action is a reboot action it needs to go find the kickstart action that caused the reboot action to be necessary. Cancelling the root action should cancell all the others. The problem is that the loop that was supposed to walk up the action tree was written incorrectly so that it would just cycle infinitely, leading to the page to just sit there and eventually time out and a java process consuming all of its cpu until you restart tomcat. I'm not terribly concerned about the fact that I don't know how to reproduce this because the existing code is clearly wrong and this fix is clearly the intended behavior, and everything functions correctly on my system when the fix is applied.
Committing to Spacewalk master: 7f5c7324f143737e18c5e02a9569760563ab4ab1
Verified. spacewalk-java-2.3.8-52 1. Initiate a provisioning of a KVM guest. 1.1. Check the Event tab 1.2 Pick up the scheduled events. (rhn_check --v ) 2. While the first provisioning session is running schedule second one. 1.2. Check the Event tab 3. Ensure that second provisioning will start right after the first one is done. 4. Ensure the "Session" tab is updated correctly.
Reverified with spacewalk-java-2.3.8-96.el6sat.noarch Page rhn/systems/details/kickstart/SessionStatus.do?sid=1000010033 was refreshed each 15s: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 12:17:01 GMT Mon, 12 Jan 2015 12:17:16 GMT
With the release of Red Hat Satellite 5.7 on January 12th 2015 this bug is being moved to a Closed Current Release state. The Satellite 5.7 GA Errata: - https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0033.html Satellite 5.7 Release Notes: - https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Satellite/5.7/html-single/Release_Notes/index.html Satellite Customer Portal Blog announcement for release: - https://access.redhat.com/blogs/1169563/posts/1315743 Cliff