Sometimes when publishing a content view, a race condition can occur that causes the content view publish step to fail at the distributor publish step. The steps to reproduce are not concrete as this is an intermittent failure, one could try:

 1. Create content view with lots of repositories
 2. Constantly publish the content view

Another idea would be to:

 1. Create 10 content views with multiple repositories
 2. Loop publish the 10 content views

Work around: Resume content view publish task


The traceback associated with the issue is:

   Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/celery/app/trace.py", line 240, in trace_task
        R = retval = fun(*args, **kwargs)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pulp/server/async/tasks.py", line 473, in __call__
        return super(Task, self).__call__(*args, **kwargs)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pulp/server/async/tasks.py", line 103, in __call__
        return super(PulpTask, self).__call__(*args, **kwargs)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/celery/app/trace.py", line 437, in __protected_call__
        return self.run(*args, **kwargs)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pulp/server/controllers/repository.py", line 971, in publish
        result = _do_publish(repo_obj, dist_id, dist_inst, transfer_repo, conduit, call_config)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pulp/server/controllers/repository.py", line 1023, in _do_publish
        publish_report = publish_repo(transfer_repo, conduit, call_config)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pulp/server/async/tasks.py", line 658, in wrap_f
        return f(*args, **kwargs)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pulp_katello/distributors/yum_clone_distributor/distributor.py", line 138, in publish_repo
        self.link_directory(working_dir, https_publish_dir)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pulp_katello/distributors/yum_clone_distributor/distributor.py", line 157, in link_directory
        os.makedirs(base_path)
      File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/os.py", line 157, in makedirs
        mkdir(name, mode)
    OSError: [Errno 17] File exists: '/var/lib/pulp/published/yum/https/repos/Sat6-CI/content_views/Tools_RHEL7/54.0/custom/Red_Hat_Satellite_Tools_6_2_Composes'