_landscape-internal-facade.list local repository empty

[Andreas Hasenack]

precise, landscape-client-11.11~bzr519-0ubuntu0~precise1

In staging, landscape-devel account, I have a package profile that applies to computers with the "check" tag.

I registered a new computer, ls3-precise, with this tag. Soon enough an activity was created to install that profile:
https://staging.landscape.canonical.com/account/landscape-devel/activity/135311

The client logs, however, show that a local repository that was added by the client is empty:

# tail /var/log/landscape/manager.log
2012-03-16 00:02:45,896 INFO [MainThread] Got notification of impending exchange. Notifying all plugins.
2012-03-16 00:04:03,684 WARNING [MainThread] Package changer output:
2012-03-16 00:03:48,313 WARNING [MainThread] '/usr/lib/landscape/apt-update' exited with status 100 (W: Failed to fetch file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries/./Packages File not found

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
)

The package reporter also started to complain:

2012-03-15 23:57:23,541 INFO [MainThread] Queuing message with changes in known packages: 3 installed, 0 available, 0 available upgrades, 0 locked, 0 not installed, 0 not available, 0 not available upgrades, 0 not locked.
2012-03-15 23:57:32,512 INFO [MainThread] Received 26 package hash => id translations, 0 hashes are unknown.
2012-03-15 23:57:45,580 INFO [MainThread] Queuing message with changes in known packages: 1 installed, 26 available, 0 available upgrades, 0 locked, 0 not installed, 0 not available, 0 not available upgrades, 0 not locked.
2012-03-16 00:03:48,313 WARNING [MainThread] '/usr/lib/landscape/apt-update' exited with status 100 (W: Failed to fetch file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries/./Packages File not found

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
)
2012-03-16 00:04:02,765 INFO [MainThread] Queuing message with changes in known packages: 83 installed, 0 available, 0 available upgrades, 0 locked, 0 not installed, 6 not available, 0 not available upgrades, 0 not locked.

The repository is this:

root@ls3-precise:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/_landscape-internal-facade.list
deb file:///var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries ./

And it is empty:

root@ls3-precise:~# ls -la /var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 landscape root 4096 Mar 16 00:01 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 landscape root 4096 Mar 16 00:04 ..
root@ls3-precise:~#

There were also hash warnings in the package changer logs:

2012-03-15 23:50:15,252 WARNING [MainThread] The package-reporter hasn't run yet, exiting.
2012-03-15 23:50:58,353 WARNING [MainThread] Package data not yet synchronized with server ('\xcf#=\xf2\xcf0\xfe):~[\xc5E\x18\xabZJ\xacZ\t')
2012-03-15 23:52:05,610 WARNING [MainThread] Package data not yet synchronized with server ('\xcf#=\xf2\xcf0\xfe):~[\xc5E\x18\xabZJ\xacZ\t')
2012-03-15 23:53:17,487 WARNING [MainThread] Package data not yet synchronized with server ('\xcf#=\xf2\xcf0\xfe):~[\xc5E\x18\xabZJ\xacZ\t')
2012-03-15 23:54:29,265 WARNING [MainThread] Package data not yet synchronized with server ('\xcf#=\xf2\xcf0\xfe):~[\xc5E\x18\xabZJ\xacZ\t')
2012-03-15 23:55:38,515 WARNING [MainThread] Package data not yet synchronized with server ('\xcf#=\xf2\xcf0\xfe):~[\xc5E\x18\xabZJ\xacZ\t')
2012-03-15 23:57:03,992 INFO [MainThread] Queuing response with change package results to exchange urgently.
2012-03-16 00:03:46,321 INFO [MainThread] Queuing response with change package results to exchange urgently.

That machine is now triggering the "having issues reporting packages" alert. And apt-get update is failing:
root@ls3-precise:~# apt-get update
Ign file: ./ InRelease
Ign file: ./ Release.gpg
Ign file: ./ Release
Err file: ./ Packages
  File not found
Ign file: ./ Translation-en_US
Ign file: ./ Translation-en
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com precise-security InRelease
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com precise InRelease
(...)
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com precise-backports/restricted Translation-en
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com precise-backports/universe Translation-en
W: Failed to fetch file:/var/lib/landscape/client/package/binaries/./Packages File not found

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
root@ls3-precise:~#