Yep. There was a recent update to yum-rhn-plugin that introduced a bug that causes this exact problem (version 0.5.4-22.el5_7.1). The long-term solution is to get the version of yum-rhn-plugin that was put out this week (version 0.5.4-22.el5_7.2).
I just set up a remote command on my machines that installed yum-rhn-plugin specifically. Short-term, you can do: -yum clean all -rm -rf /var/cache/yum/* -rhn_check -v Funny note about the bug: it is only triggered by running 'rhn_check' with no options. Adding any number of '-v' after the command doesn't trigger it. From: James McCabe Sent: Tue 9/13/2011 4:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Error while executing packages action: empty transaction [[6]] my updates are failing when i try to update my satellite clients using my redhat satellite server running rhel 5.7. I schedule the event and after it gets picked up, it fails with the error Client execution returned "Error while executing packages action: empty transaction [[6]]" (code -1) i am able to run the yum update on the client and it will perform the updates but when going through the satellite server it errors out. any ideas?? Thanks
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