I am also having this issue toady. Trying to register my virtual machines to rhn but failing.<div> </div><div>Paras.</div><div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Goslin, Paul <<a href="mailto:pgoslin@cincom.com">pgoslin@cincom.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">You'll get a lot more detailed information as to where it is failing if you do: yum -v list update The output of mine (even though there are no updates currently) is: Loading "rhnplugin" plugin Loading "security" plugin Config time: 0.037 Looking for repo options for [rhel-x86_64-server-5] Yum Version: 3.2.22 Setting up Package Sacks Skipping security plugin, no data pkgsack time: 0.040 rpmdb time: 0.000 Building updates object up:Obs Init time: 0.255 up:simple updates time: 0.121 up:obs time: 0.004 up:condense time: 0.000 updates time: 1.308 <div><div></div><div class="h5"> > -----Original Message----- > From: <a href="mailto:rhn-users-bounces@redhat.com">rhn-users-bounces@redhat.com</a> > [mailto:<a href="mailto:rhn-users-bounces@redhat.com">rhn-users-bounces@redhat.com</a>] On Behalf Of Tim Evans > Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 8:08 PM > To: <a href="mailto:rhn-users@redhat.com">rhn-users@redhat.com</a> > Subject: [rhn-users] Valid Entitlement; RHN Connections Fail/Timeout > > I have an RHEL 5.4 system that's got a valid RHN entitlement, > but which can't seem to connect with RHN: > > [root@www ~]# yum list updates > Loaded plugins: rhnplugin > There was an error communicating with RHN. > RHN support will be disabled. > Error communicating with server. The message was: > timed out > > [takes about five minutes to time out] > > Our other systems don't have any trouble connecting, just > this one. It is our firewall, so it's the only system on the > "outside" network; internal connections come via NAT through > the firewall. I've recycled both rhnsd and yum-updatesd, w/o results. > > Ideas? > -- > Tim Evans, TKEvans.com, Inc. | 5 Chestnut Court > UNIX System Admin Consulting | Owings Mills, MD 21117 > <a href="http://www.tkevans.com/" target="_blank">http://www.tkevans.com/</a> | 443-394-3864 > <a href="http://www.come-here.com/News/" target="_blank">http://www.come-here.com/News/</a> | <a href="mailto:tkevans@tkevans.com">tkevans@tkevans.com</a> > > _______________________________________________ > rhn-users mailing list > <a href="mailto:rhn-users@redhat.com">rhn-users@redhat.com</a> > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users</a> > _______________________________________________ rhn-users mailing list <a href="mailto:rhn-users@redhat.com">rhn-users@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> </div>