Hi,
We batch our update packages to be able to have a testing cycle on dev/test
systems prior to applying them in our production environments. This applies to
all three of our Linux Distribution/version streams in use at this site:
CentOS7, Ubuntu 14.04, and Ubuntu 16.04. In our latest cycle, we lost the
apt-transport-spacewalk, rhnsd, and rhn-client-tools packages when performing
rhn_check to deploy the packages. To fix the problem I had to switch
sources.list back to Ubuntu repos, remote the spacewalk source.list.d entry,
re-install the missing packages, and then switch the sources.list files back to
a spacewalk configuration.
When re-installing the spacewalk packages the following packages also needed to
be re-installed from the Ubuntu repo:
python-apt python-cryptography python-dbus python-dmidecode python-enum34
python-gi python-gobject
python-gobject-2 python-gudev python-idna python-ipaddress python-openssl
python-pkg-resources
python-pyasn1 python-rhn python-six
The package updates in that batch most likely causing that incident were
apt-1.2.25-X.amd64-deb
apt-transport-https-1.2.25-X.amd64-deb
apt-utils-1.2.25-X.amd64-deb
libapt-inst2.0-1.2.25-X.amd64-deb
libapt-pkg5.0-1.2.25-X.amd64-deb
or
libpython-stdlib-2.7.12-1~16.04.amd64-deb
python-2.7.12-1~16.04.amd64-deb
python-apt-1.1.0~beta1ubuntu0.16.04.1-X.amd64-deb
python-apt-common-1.1.0~beta1ubuntu0.16.04.1-X.all-deb
python-gdbm-2.7.12-1~16.04.amd64-deb
python-minimal-2.7.12-1~16.04.amd64-deb
python-twisted-bin-16.0.0-1ubuntu0.2.amd64-deb
python-twisted-core-16.0.0-1ubuntu0.2.all-deb
python3-apt-1.1.0~beta1ubuntu0.16.04.1-X.amd64-deb
python3-distupgrade-16.04.24-X:1.all-deb
python3-update-manager-16.04.12-X:1.all-deb
The really weird thing is that the copy of those apt packages on the Spacewalk
server's filesystem date back to Sep 29. And the python packages back to Nov.
So that leaves me wondering, why did it try to apply now if the file was
downloaded (or created) that far back? We've run many patching cycles since
then. I want to try to figure out what's going on before I try to bring our
production systems up to date.
Paul-Andre Panon
Senior systems administrator
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