Re: RHN Registration Errors

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Lamar Milligan <[email protected]> wrote:
> I ran rhn-profile-sync on the RHEL 5.2 box, and received the following
> error:
>
> [root@host1 ~]# rhn-profile-sync
> Updating package profile...
> An error has occurred:
> Connection timed out on write
> See /var/log/up2date for more information
>
> [root@host1]# tail -100 /var/log/up2date
> <snip>
> [Tue Jun 10 12:55:04 2008] up2date updateLoginInfo() login info
> [Tue Jun 10 12:55:04 2008] up2date logging into up2date server
> [Tue Jun 10 12:55:06 2008] up2date successfully retrieved authentication
> token from up2date server
> [Tue Jun 10 12:55:06 2008] up2date Updating package profile
> [Tue Jun 10 12:55:56 2008] up2date A socket error occurred: Timeout
> Exception, attempt #1
> [Tue Jun 10 12:56:52 2008] up2date A socket error occurred: Timeout
> Exception, attempt #2
> [Tue Jun 10 12:57:33 2008] up2date A socket error occurred: Timeout
> Exception, attempt #3
> [Tue Jun 10 12:58:34 2008] up2date A socket error occurred: Timeout
> Exception, attempt #4
> [Tue Jun 10 12:59:29 2008] up2date A socket error occurred: Timeout
> Exception, attempt #5

This looks like either a network issue or a configuration issue
screwing up connecting to whatever you are connecting to. Are you
connecting directly to RHN? No satellite or rhn proxy server involved?
No other proxy server sitting between you and RHN?

John