[rhelv6-list] yum -q spews "Unable to read consumer identity"

["Weiergräber, Oliver H."]

Hello,
I also ran into this issue - every execution of yum on the command line now results in this message. It seems to occur on systems subscribed to RHN Classic.
To resolve this, I decided to simply migrate my machine to subscription-based RHN (there is a script called "rhn-migrate-classic-to-rhsm" for this purpose).
In principle this worked fine - but two issues are still bothering me now:

1. In Subscription Manager, I was able to subscribe my system using the auto-subscribe button. The "My subscriptions" tab now lists the correct item (RHEL 6 desktop). But the "All available subscriptions" tab is empty, even if I disable all filtering options. Very strange, obviously a bug...

2. I have been using the "priorities" plugin for yum to handle third-party repositories. For RHN Classic I simply put the priority statements in the rhnplugin.conf file. But after the migration it seems to me there is NO possibility to assign the required high priority to the certificate-based redhat repositories.
There is a redhat.repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d, but my "priority=..." lines (which I entered manually) are silently removed by the system !!! Is anyone aware of a proper way to define those priorities for Redhat's certificate-based repos?
If the priorities statements are missing for the redhat repos, they will default to the *lowest* priority, which is obviously not intended :-((
Very annoying...

Oliver

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From: rhelv6-list-bounces at redhat.com [rhelv6-list-bounces at redhat.com] on behalf of daryl herzmann [akrherz at iastate.edu]
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 11:14 PM
To: rhelv6-list at redhat.com
Subject: [rhelv6-list] yum -q spews "Unable to read consumer identity"

Well Howdy,

I have a cronjob on most of my boxes running 'yum -y -q update", since,
you know, RHN is unable to keep them update via Auto Apply Errata.
That's another discussion, anyway...

Since the 6.3 update, I am getting a daily cron email from each machine
noting (even though I have -q set :) ):

   Unable to read consumer identity

Anyway, searching around for this, I find this fun knowledge base article:

https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/ko/node/78153

The solution proposed only works for RHEL5, so be sure to read the last
comment that says:

   RHEL 6 systems do not have a katello.conf file. Wouldn't it have been
   nice of Red Hat to say that, for RHEL 6 systems, edit the
   subscription-manager.conf file instead?

So it looks like I need to modify each system I have and tweak that
config file?!?

daryl

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