RHEL5 yum problem

[Andrew Bacchi]

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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		-Seneca

Andrew Bacchi
Systems Programmer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
phone: 518.276.6415  fax: 518.276.2809

http://www.rpi.edu/~bacchi/