[CentOS] cobbler reposync fails when accessing the CentOS 6 extras repos

Hi everyone,

We are updating local repos from different mirrors using cobbler reposync.
This has been working fine for the longest time but started to fail a few
days ago (see below for failure details).
I first try to use a different mirror but that didn¹t help.

This morning, I modified cobbler to disable the auto-update for the
centos/6/extras/i386/ and centos/6/extras/x86_64/ repos.
After that the reposync worked like a charm.

Is there a problem with the CentOS 6 extras repos?
Is someone on this list in charge of them? If not, who should I contact?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Valère Binet [C]
IT Security Administrator
Kelly Government Solutions On-Site at the NIH
NIH / NIA / IRP
Tel : 410 558 8013
mailto:  binetv at nia.nih.gov




On 3/11/15, 2:00 AM, "Cron Daemon" wrote:

>task started: 2015-03-11_020001_reposync
>task started (id=Reposync, time=Wed Mar 11 02:00:01 2015)
>hello, reposync
>run, reposync, run!
>ossec-6-x86_64 is set to not be updated
>running: rsync -rltDv --copy-unsafe-links --delete-after  --delete
>--exclude-from=/etc/cobbler/rsync.exclude
>rsync://lug.mtu.edu/centos/5/updates/i386/
>/var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/updates-i386
>received on stdout: Welcome to lug.mtu.edu, the rsync server for
> __  __ _____ _   _     _    _   _  ____
>|/ ___|
> _
>|_| |
>|_|  |_| |_|  \___/    |_____\___/ \____|
>
>Linux Users Group
>Michigan Technological University
>Houghton, MI, USA
>
>Questions or comments? Direct them to lug-l at mtu.edu.
>
>This machine is also called rsync24.us.gentoo.org
>
>receiving file list ... done
>./
>repodata/
>repodata/filelists.sqlite.bz2
>repodata/other.sqlite.bz2
>repodata/primary.sqlite.bz2
>repodata/repomd.xml
>cannot delete non-empty directory: cache
>deleting config.repo
>deleting repodata/d98c1db2dc84b22472574ae838661e8c5ceb9f29-other.xml.gz
>deleting 
>repodata/c725f17afa03f097310be76e259bb6127986209e-other.sqlite.bz2
>deleting 
>repodata/a522ad85254382821073937269af0cbea3439843-filelists.sqlite.bz2
>deleting repodata/49f57ad0917a4d5b00766b94cb5bcf79ef9377ac-primary.xml.gz
>deleting 
>repodata/28fbc448ae20809893912ae7a0e8454a315dfe63-primary.sqlite.bz2
>deleting 
>repodata/0ec92d5b471bea2e84c6c9ec4c8e6dc37f3cb7c9-filelists.xml.gz
>
>sent 290 bytes  received 9256161 bytes  2644700.29 bytes/sec
>total size is 1796883957  speedup is 194.12
>
>received on stderr:
>running: createrepo  -c cache -s sha
>/var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/updates-i386
>received on stdout: Spawning worker 0 with 251 pkgs
>Workers Finished
>Gathering worker results
>
>Saving Primary metadata
>Saving file lists metadata
>Saving other metadata
>Generating sqlite DBs
>Sqlite DBs complete
>
>received on stderr:
>creating: /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/updates-i386/config.repo
>running: chown -R root:apache /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/updates-i386
>received on stdout:
>received on stderr:
>running: chmod -R 755 /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/updates-i386
>received on stdout:
>received on stderr:
>running: rsync -rltDv --copy-unsafe-links --delete-after  --delete
>--exclude-from=/etc/cobbler/rsync.exclude
>rsync://mirror.cogentco.com/centos/6/extras/i386/
>/var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/extras-6-i386
>received on stdout:
>+-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>-+
>|                       Welcome to mirror.cogentco.com!
> |
>+-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>-+
>|                 
> |
>| Thank you for using the Cogent Communications Mirror server.
> |
>|                 
> |
>| *** Please limit your rsyncs to a max of 4x per day ***
> |
>|                 
> |
>| If you have any problems with this site please contact
> |
>| support at cogentco.com.
> |
>|                 
> |
>| http://www.cogentco.com
> |
>+-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>-+
>
>
>
>received on stderr: @ERROR: Unknown module 'centos'
>rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at
>main.c(1503) [receiver=3.0.6]
>
>Exception occured: <class 'cobbler.cexceptions.CX'>
>Exception value: 'cobbler reposync failed'
>Exception Info:
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/utils.py", line 126, in
>die
>    raise CX(msg)
>
>Exception occured: <class 'cobbler.cexceptions.CX'>
>Exception value: 'cobbler reposync failed'
>Exception Info:
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/action_reposync.py",
>line 125, in run
>    self.sync(repo)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/action_reposync.py",
>line 173, in sync
>    return self.rsync_sync(repo)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/action_reposync.py",
>line 274, in rsync_sync
>    utils.die(self.logger,"cobbler reposync failed")
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/utils.py", line 134, in
>die
>    raise CX(msg)
>
>reposync failed, tries left: 0
>Exception occured: <class 'cobbler.cexceptions.CX'>
>Exception value: 'reposync failed, retry limit reached, aborting'
>Exception Info:
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/utils.py", line 126, in
>die
>    raise CX(msg)
>
>Exception occured: <class 'cobbler.cexceptions.CX'>
>Exception value: 'reposync failed, retry limit reached, aborting'
>Exception Info:
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/remote.py", line 87, in
>run
>    rc = self._run(self)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/remote.py", line 250,
>in runner
>    name=None, nofail=nofail, logger=self.logger)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 818, in
>reposync
>    return reposync.run(name)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/action_reposync.py",
>line 147, in run
>    utils.die(self.logger,"reposync failed, retry limit reached,
>aborting")
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/utils.py", line 134, in
>die
>    raise CX(msg)
>
>!!! TASK FAILED !!!