RHN problems?

[robinprice at gmail.com]

Chris,

The RHN outage that was ongoing yesterday has been resolved.  I have
not run into this issue on any of my RHEL5/6 installs.  This may be
directly related to the following knowledge base:

Operations such as satellite-sync and yum update fail with "503
Service Temporarily Unavailable" error when connecting to RHN hosted
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-52689

Root Cause

    * This is a temporary issue.
    * The error appears when the parent RHN Server
(satellite.rhn.redhat.com) is busy serving too many requests
    * This is seen during a major update release (for e.g RHEL 5.4,
RHEL 4.8 etc)

This may have been the issue you ran into when RHN came back online.
Can you try again now that RHN has been up and running?  If you get
this same message, I would suggest contacting GSS and filing a support
case.
If you do this, please let me know, and I will be happy to follow-up
in the case for you.

~rp

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net> wrote:
> Once upon a time, Marco Bill-Peter <marcobillpeter at redhat.com> said:
>> Folks,
>>
>> RHN should be fixed at this point. Please post here if you see continuing
>> connection issues or file a case with support.
>
> It appears HTTP access (e.g. with "useNoSSLForPackages=1" set in
> /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date) is broken.  With that set, a "yum list
> updates" returns:
>
> Error: failed to retrieve repodata/eb9c556bbfb5deb6368eaa43b9b68af3a8d806dc-primary.xml.gz from rhel-x86_64-server-5
> error was [Errno 14] HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable
>
>> Jim, Good suggestion with a status page. We'll make that happen going forward on
>> the customer portal.
>
> I would suggest the status page be outside any login; ideally, it would
> be separate as much as practical from other Red Hat sites (maybe
> "status.redhat.com"?).
>
> Thanks for your response here about RHN issues.
> --
> Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
> I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
>
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