RHEL5 yum problem

Thu Sep 13 19:12:55 UTC 2007

Marshall

You can check to see if your proxy is set by looking at the file
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date on a RHEL5 system.

Be sure to set the enableProxy parameter as well as httpProxy.

regards 
Greg Caetano
greg.caetano at hp.com

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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of McDougall, Marshall
(FSH)
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 11:59 AM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: RHEL5 yum problem

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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