[katello] waiting for Pulp to start the task

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Hi all,

I'm being bitten by the weird "waiting for Pulp to start the task" problem.
I freshly installed katello on a CentOS7 server, and subscribed a CentOS5
server to it.
I can see the CentOS 5 server as a Content host, and added a content view
etc … all repo syncing also works just fine. But whenever I try to
install/remove a package
on the server, it just won't start and seems blocked at "waiting for Pulp
to start the task".
I already restarted all pulp services (heck, even rebooted the katello
server), still nothing.
Tried updating the EL5 server to the latest katello client packages
(version 2.4, which is a burden since they are not correctly signed for EL5
servers).
So any help on this would be appreciated :slight_smile:
Below you can find the dynflow console output:

3: Actions::Pulp::Consumer::ContentUninstall (waiting for Pulp to start the
task) [ 1490.61s / 4.11s ] Cancel
<https://btcab0004ap.unix.banksys.be/foreman_tasks/dynflow/35581a75-05a1-4db9-b3d6-23aa4eb8546c/cancel/3>

Started at: 2016-01-25 13:13:14 UTC

Ended at: 2016-01-25 13:38:05 UTC

Real time: 1490.61s

Execution time (excluding suspended state): 4.11s

Input:

··· --- consumer_uuid: a83cde10-6097-4240-8a9a-f82398c5c8a1 type: rpm args:- afick remote_user: admin remote_cp_user: admin locale: en

Output:

pulp_tasks:- exception:
task_type:
_href: /pulp/api/v2/tasks/75ad7835-61fd-4121-af1b-ceb53782889e/
task_id: 75ad7835-61fd-4121-af1b-ceb53782889e
tags:

  • pulp:consumer:a83cde10-6097-4240-8a9a-f82398c5c8a1
  • pulp:action:unit_uninstall
    finish_time:
    _ns: task_status
    start_time:
    traceback:
    spawned_tasks: []
    progress_report: {}
    queue: agent.dq
    state: waiting
    worker_name: agent
    result:
    error:
    _id:
    $oid: 56a61f6a41bc8a5d169ae24a
    id: 56a61f6a41bc8a5d169ae24a
    poll_attempts:
    total: 113
    failed: 0

With friendly regards,

Franky