During the initial sync on a rhel3 satellite (with /var/satellite
mounted), satellite-sync dies with an unhandled OSError exception.

Log below:

Note:
- this did *not* happen on the rhel2 satellite
- after taw added a simple try/catch statement that just passes the
exception and prints out an error message, re-running the sync command
did not raise the exception again, though the file existing that
generated the exception in the first place is still there.

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18:58:17 Downloading rpm packages
18:58:17    Fetching any missing RPMs: redhat-advanced-server-i386
(NONE MISSING)
18:58:17    Fetching any missing RPMs: rhel-i386-as-3 (14)
+++ sending log as an email +++
 
SYNC ERROR: unhandled exception occurred:
 
(Check logs/email for potentially more detail)
 
[Errno 17] File exists:
'/var/satellite/redhat/NULL/initscripts/7.31.18.EL-1'

The full traceback:

Exception Handler Information
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/satellite-sync", line 128, in main
    return satsync.Runner().main()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/satsync.py", line 153, in main
    ret = method()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/satsync.py", line 241, in
_step_rpms
    self._packages_report = self.syncer.download_rpms()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/satsync.py", line 856, in
download_rpms
    self._fetch_packages(channel, missing_fs_packages)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/satsync.py", line 1697, in
_fetch_packages
    s = rpmManip.write_file(stream)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/syncLib.py", line 165, in
write_file
    createPath(dirname)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/syncLib.py", line 380, in
createPath
    makedirs(path, mode=chmod, user=user, group=group)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/syncLib.py", line 359, in makedirs
    os.mkdir(dirname, mode)
OSError: [Errno 17] File exists:
'/var/satellite/redhat/NULL/initscripts/7.31.18.EL-1'