RHEL5 yum problem - SOLVED

[McDougall, Marshall (FSH)]

 I had another look at /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date and saw the lines:

disallowConfChanges[comment]=Config options that can not be overwritten
by a config update action
disallowConfChanges=noReboot;sslCACert;useNoSSLForPackages;noSSLServerUR
L;serverURL;disallowConfChanges;

So I rem'd out:

serverURL[comment]=Remote server URL
#serverURL=http://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC

And added

noSSLServerURL=http://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC

That fixed it.  Thanks for the input all.

Regards, Marshall

>-----Original Message-----
>From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com 
>[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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