YUM broken

[aoscott510]

I am working with a RHEL 5.6 server and having a very difficult time getting an issue with yum resolved. After many hours scouring the internet I still have yet to discover the right fix. I noticed this is a common problem which has many variant. In general yum fails with about every switch except

yum clean

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
    yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 309, in user_main
    errcode = main(args)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 157, in main
    base.getOptionsConfig(args)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 187, in getOptionsConfig
    self.conf
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 665, in <lambda>
    conf = property(fget=lambda self: self._getConfig(),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 254, in _getConfig
    self.plugins.run('init')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 179, in run
    func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
  File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/rhnplugin.py", line 111, in init_hook
    login_info = up2dateAuth.getLoginInfo()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateAuth.py", line 219, in getLoginInfo
    login()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateAuth.py", line 186, in login
    li = server.up2date.login(systemId)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnserver.py", line 64, in __call__
    raise up2dateErrors.SSLCertificateVerifyFailedError()
up2date_client.up2dateErrors.SSLCertificateVerifyFailedError: The SSL certificate failed verification.

Here is what I have tried so far:

yum clean all

Check for failed dependencies:

rpm -Va python\* yum\*

Rebuild rpm database:
rpm --rebuilddb

Rebuild urandom in /dev:

mv urandom urandom.old
mknod -m 644 /dev/urandom c 1 9


I'm very anxious to get this resolved without rebuilding the entire server. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[oz]

Hello and welcome!

Check the following article to see if one of the solutions provided helps:

How to fix a broken yum for CentOS

It's written for CentOS, but will likely work with Red Hat as well.

[aoscott510]

That file does not even exist on this particular server. So there was nothing to disable. I'm not sure if it is required or not. Here are the contents of the directory though.

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   17 Mar 17  2010 security.conf
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov  2  2010 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov  2  2010 .
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  163 Mar  1  2011 rhnplugin.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   17 Jan  9  2012 downloadonly.conf

[oz]

Don't know that it will help, but check the system date and time on your server. I've seen the SSL Certificate error at the bottom of your output come up before when the system time was wrong.

Hope it works...

[aoscott510]

So after looking into it more it turns out to be certificate issue. I didn't think it was at first My next question is how to fix RHN certificate issues. The two servers I am working with have no connetivity to the RHN or to the outside world for that matter. Is there a way to bypass the RHN and just use local media which is what I'm trying to do?

rhn_check -v
ERROR: SSL errors detected
[('SSL routines', 'SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE', 'certificate verify failed')]

[mizzle]

Are you trying to pull updates from a satellite server?

Rerun rhnreg_ks and use a URL that has http: instead of https: