Description of problem: I noticed that there was a satellite-sync process that was several days old so I killed it and restarted the satellite server then ran it by hand. Several time I got exceptions like the following after which the process would hang and need restarting. 10:08:45 238/768 Fetch successful: net-tools-1.60-109.el6.x86_64.rpm (274716 bytes) Exception in thread Thread-1: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/threading.py", line 532, in __bootstrap_inner self.run() File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/satsync.py", line 2129, in run package_id, nvrea, self.sources) File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/satsync.py", line 2070, in _get_package_stream stream = rpmServer.getPackageStream(channel, nvrea) File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/xmlWireSource.py", line 480, in getPackageStream return self._rpc_call("getPackage", (channel, package_name)) File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/xmlWireSource.py", line 447, in _rpc_call ret = apply(getattr(get_server_obj, function_name), params) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rhn/rpclib.py", line 678, in __call__ result = self._send(self._name, args) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rhn/rpclib.py", line 383, in _request self._handler, request, verbose=self._verbose) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rhn/transports.py", line 171, in request headers, fd = req.send_http(host, handler) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rhn/transports.py", line 702, in send_http self._connection.connect() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rhn/connections.py", line 194, in connect sock.connect((self.host, self.port)) File "<string>", line 1, in connect gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known 10:09:26 Downloaded 345 MiB of 819 MiB. Estimated remaining time: 0:23:27.480000 10:09:26 239/768 Fetch successful: mingw32-matahari-0.4.4-11.el6.noarch.rpm (22952576 bytes) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: run satellite-sync --email Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: FWIW our satellite server is running in a VM.
Satellite bugzilla should not block space17, removing.
Unless this got solid reproducer, I could not do anything about it. :( If it cause you problem please contact Red Hat Support, who will try to find solution for you.