Environment
Novell ZENworks Patch Management 11.3
Situation
Patches fail to cache.
novell-zenworks-configure -c CheckContentSystem reports patch related content items to be missing from the content repository
Error in loader-messages.log similar to:
"...
novell-zenworks-configure -c CheckContentSystem reports patch related content items to be missing from the content repository
Error in loader-messages.log similar to:
"...
[TRACE] [03/17/2015 17:03:18.684]
[3059] [ZENLoader] [161] [] [Content Datamodel] []
[prepareForImport: tempFile does not
exist:/var/opt/novell/zenworks/content-repo/tmp/zpm/plp/windows/9F485856-2269-4532-88CA-B0D757DD62DD.plp
for contentUID=186b587c4433ee9547fca361ca69ac11] [] [] []
[ZENServer]
[TRACE] [03/17/2015 17:03:18.685] [3059] [ZENLoader] [161] [] [Loader.MandatoryBaselineManager] [] [Failed to Import bundle: Update for Windows 8.1 x64 (KB 3006137)259338451
[TRACE] [03/17/2015 17:03:18.685] [3059] [ZENLoader] [161] [] [Loader.MandatoryBaselineManager] [] [Failed to Import bundle: Update for Windows 8.1 x64 (KB 3006137)259338451
Exception:
java.io.FileNotFoundException:
/var/opt/novell/zenworks/content-repo/tmp/zpm/plp/windows/9F485856-2269-4532-88CA-B0D757DD62DD.plp]
[] [] [] [ZENServer]
..."
..."
Resolution
This is working as to be expected.
Such broken content items do clear when the related patch succeeds to cache.
Such broken content items do clear when the related patch succeeds to cache.
Cause
The patch subscription service fails to import the patch related
content since the content failed to download. It creates a content
item not actually referring to any existing file in the content
repository.