Error during repo sync-Out of order metadata

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#1

Problem:
Hello,

Syncing the BaseOS repo of rocky9 results in an error. Error: Parsing interrupted: Out of order metadata

Expected outcome:
Syncing the repository should complete with no errors
Foreman and Proxy versions:

Foreman and Proxy plugin versions:
foreman 3.2.1
katello 4.4.2.2
Distribution and version:
CentOS Stream 8
Other relevant data:

hammer repository synchronize --id 200 --organization ORG
[.....................................................] [100%]
No content added.
Total steps: 740/1147
--------------------------------
Associating Content: 0/0
Downloading Artifacts: 0/0
Downloading Metadata Files: 10/10
Parsed Packages: 730/1137
Error: Parsing interrupted: Out of order metadata: 786010ce275e9a122265d52515eb90784e036bdf68f2ed2d78d1de250016d3f0 vs be8f8f34a444f82e2d057d799e1eaf4c69197efeb1a46ecd2d4cc1a7ea37949f.

How to start investigating this? Where is the metadata located? Which one is the faulty one?

Regards,

#2

There are inconsistencies between the primary.xml and other.xml (and possibly others). Take the two checksums and look in the primary and other xmls.

Taken from Index of /pub/rocky/9/BaseOS/x86_64/os/repodata/

primary.xml has package with checksum be8f8f34a444f82e2d057d799e1eaf4c69197efeb1a46ecd2d4cc1a7ea37949f:

<package type="rpm">
<name>python3-perf</name>
<arch>x86_64</arch>
<version epoch="0" ver="5.14.0" rel="162.12.1.el9_1.0.1"/>
<checksum type="sha256" pkgid="YES">
be8f8f34a444f82e2d057d799e1eaf4c69197efeb1a46ecd2d4cc1a7ea37949f
</checksum>
<summary>
Python bindings for apps which will manipulate perf events
</summary>
<description>
The python3-perf package contains a module that permits applications written in the Python programming language to use the interface to manipulate perf events.
</description>
<packager>Release Engineering <releng@rockylinux.org></packager>
<url>https://www.kernel.org/</url>
<time file="1674758604" build="1674500931"/>
<size package="2077777" installed="391829" archive="392312"/>
<location href="Packages/p/python3-perf-5.14.0-162.12.1.el9_1.0.1.x86_64.rpm"/>
...

other.xml has pkgid 786010ce275e9a122265d52515eb90784e036bdf68f2ed2d78d1de250016d3f0:

<package pkgid="786010ce275e9a122265d52515eb90784e036bdf68f2ed2d78d1de250016d3f0" name="python3-perf" arch="x86_64">
<version epoch="0" ver="5.14.0" rel="162.12.1.el9_1.0.1"/>
...

So it seems metadata for the rocky repo 9 is currently broken…

#3

Hey @biuadmin and @gvde

The Rocky Releng team was already made aware of this issue, already working on fixing it :+1:

#4

Good to know. Although the bug is misleading and pointing to an old issue where metadata was reversed. But in this case, as far as I understand, the metadata is actually inconsistent. The same rpm has different checksums in primary.xml and other.xml…

1 Like
#5

Yeah it is, thank you for the hint about python3-perf, guess this leads now to a faster resolution :slight_smile:

#6

cheers y’all :slightly_smiling_face:
@gvde
@lumarel

#7

@gvde @gvde Should be fixed now ^^ :ok_hand: