RHEL5 yum problem
McDougall, Marshall (FSH)
Marshall.McDougall at gov.mb.ca
Thu Sep 13 19:14:34 UTC 2007
I did indeed use the installation number, and my machine registered on
RHN. Thanks, anyway.
Regards, Marshall
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Bacchi
>Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 2:01 PM
>To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
>Subject: Re: RHEL5 yum problem
>
>I don't have any RHEL 5 machines of my own at the moment, but I asked
>someone who does. He said you likely didn't provide the
>Installation ID
>number for your RH license. You should look on the rhn
>website for it,
>it's a long number probably around 16 or more characters.
>
>
>
>McDougall, Marshall (FSH) wrote:
>> This is my first foray into RHEL5 and so far change is not
>so good. I
>> was quite comfortable with up2date, but alas it is not part of 5.
>> Locate doesn't seem to work very well either, but that is
>another story.
>>
>>
>> I am having some problems getting yum to run at all and I am
>not quite
>> sure if it's yum or python, as I am familiar with neither
>one. This is
>> compounded by the fact that I am behind a proxy and I am not
>completely
>> sure that I am getting through it with what ever yum is using to get
>> there. Currently, when I run yum I get the following:
>>
>> [root at fsh1166db07x Server]# yum update
>> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
>> Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
>> Setting up Update Process
>> Setting up repositories
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
>> yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 102, in main
>> result, resultmsgs = do()
>> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 359, in doCommands
>> return self.yum_cli_commands[self.basecmd].doCommand(self,
>> self.basecmd, self.extcmds)
>> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yumcommands.py", line 150, in doCommand
>> return base.updatePkgs(extcmds)
>> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 628, in updatePkgs
>> self.doRepoSetup()
>> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 102, in doRepoSetup
>> yum.YumBase.doRepoSetup(self, thisrepo=thisrepo)
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py",
>line 299, in
>> doRepoSetup
>> repo.setup(self.conf.cache)
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py",
>line 503, in
>> setup
>> self._loadRepoXML(text=self)
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py",
>line 530, in
>> _loadRepoXML
>> cache=self.http_caching == 'all')
>> File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/rhnplugin.py", line 208, in
>> _YumRepository__get
>> start, end, copy_local, checkfunc, text, reget, cache)
>> File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/rhnplugin.py", line 276, in
>> _noExceptionWrappingGet
>> http_headers=headers,
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line
>> 927, in urlgrab
>> return self._retry(opts, retryfunc, url, filename)
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line
>> 845, in _retry
>> r = apply(func, (opts,) + args, {})
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line
>> 913, in retryfunc
>> fo = URLGrabberFileObject(url, filename, opts)
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line
>> 1001, in __init__
>> self._do_open()
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line
>> 1072, in _do_open
>> fo, hdr = self._make_request(req, opener)
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line
>> 1172, in _make_request
>> fo = opener.open(req)
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 358, in open
>> response = self._open(req, data)
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 376, in _open
>> '_open', req)
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 337, in _call_chain
>> result = func(*args)
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 573, in <lambda>
>> lambda r, proxy=url, type=type, meth=self.proxy_open: \
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 597, in proxy_open
>> return self.parent.open(req)
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 358, in open
>> response = self._open(req, data)
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 376, in _open
>> '_open', req)
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 337, in _call_chain
>> result = func(*args)
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/M2Crypto/m2urllib2.py", line
>> 66, in https_open
>> h.request(req.get_method(), req.get_full_url(),
>req.data, headers)
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/httplib.py", line 804, in request
>> self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/httplib.py", line 827, in _send_request
>> self.endheaders()
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/M2Crypto/httpslib.py", line
>> 145, in endheaders
>> HTTPSConnection.endheaders(self)
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/httplib.py", line 798, in endheaders
>> self._send_output()
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/httplib.py", line 679, in _send_output
>> self.send(msg)
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/httplib.py", line 646, in send
>> self.connect()
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/M2Crypto/httpslib.py", line
>> 161, in connect
>> self._start_ssl()
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/M2Crypto/httpslib.py", line
>> 176, in _start_ssl
>> self.sock.connect_ssl()
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/M2Crypto/SSL/Connection.py",
>> line 149, in connect_ssl
>> return m2.ssl_connect(self.ssl, self._timeout)
>> M2Crypto.SSL.SSLError: unknown protocol
>>
>> As I said before, I am not familiar with either yum or
>python. I have
>> read the faqs and docs and wiki at DUKE and been through RH
>KB and am no
>> further ahead. I really don't want to open a ticket with RH until I
>> have to because that in itself is kinda painful. If anyone
>can point me
>> in a proper direction I would appreciate. Thanks.
>>
>> Regards, Marshall
>
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>
>Andrew Bacchi
>Systems Programmer
>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
>phone: 518.276.6415 fax: 518.276.2809
>
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