[rhos-list] subscription manager / yum working on one system but not the other

[Bryan Kearney]

On 08/06/2013 03:03 AM, Mehul Bhatt (mehbhatt) wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I have to identical systems where I installed RHEL 6.2 and upgraded to 6.4.  Both are registered w/ subscription-manager.  The series of command I'm running are as follows:
>
> subscription-manager register
>
> subscription-manager list --available
>
> subscription-manager attach --pool=POOLID
>
> yum repolist
>
> yum install -y yum-utils
>
>
> Both systems are able to attach to a given pool, but one is actually able to download the packages using yum and install them - the other one can't.
>
> Good system:
>
> [root at rhos-node2 ~]# yum install -y yum-utils
> Loaded plugins: priorities, product-id, security, subscription-manager
> This system is receiving updates from Red Hat Subscription Management.
> rhel-6-server-cf-tools-1-rpms                            | 2.8 kB     00:00
> rhel-6-server-rhev-agent-rpms                            | 3.1 kB     00:00
> rhel-6-server-rpms                                       | 3.7 kB     00:00
> rhel-server-ost-6-3-rpms                                 | 2.8 kB     00:00
> 322 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
> Setting up Install Process
> Package yum-utils-1.1.30-14.el6.noarch already installed and latest version
> Nothing to do
>
> Bad system:
>
> [root at rhos-node1 ~]# yum install -y yum-utils
> Loaded plugins: product-id, security, subscription-manager
> This system is receiving updates from Red Hat Subscription Management.
> Setting up Install Process
> Nothing to do
>
>
> Basically, the bad system doesn't seem to connecting and checking the available packages / dependancies.
>
> Any clue where should I be looking / fixing?

What does subscription-manager list --installed show you on each 
machine? I am guesisng the bad machine has no product id on it.

-- bk