Re: Valid Entitlement; RHN Connections Fail/Timeout

I am also having this issue toady. Trying to register my virtual machines to
rhn but failing.

Paras.


On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Goslin, Paul <[email protected]> wrote:

> You'll get a lot more detailed information as to where it is failing if
> you do:
>  yum -v list update
>
> The output of mine (even though there are no updates currently) is:
>
> Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
> Loading "security" plugin
> Config time: 0.037
> Looking for repo options for [rhel-x86_64-server-5]
> Yum Version: 3.2.22
> Setting up Package Sacks
> Skipping security plugin, no data
> pkgsack time: 0.040
> rpmdb time: 0.000
> Building updates object
> up:Obs Init time: 0.255
> up:simple updates time: 0.121
> up:obs time: 0.004
> up:condense time: 0.000
> updates time: 1.308
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tim Evans
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 8:08 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [rhn-users] Valid Entitlement; RHN Connections Fail/Timeout
> >
> > I have an RHEL 5.4 system that's got a valid RHN entitlement,
> > but which can't seem to connect with RHN:
> >
> > [root@www ~]# yum list updates
> > Loaded plugins: rhnplugin
> > There was an error communicating with RHN.
> > RHN support will be disabled.
> > Error communicating with server. The message was:
> > timed out
> >
> > [takes about five minutes to time out]
> >
> > Our other systems don't have any trouble connecting, just
> > this one. It is our firewall, so it's the only system on the
> > "outside" network; internal connections come via NAT through
> > the firewall. I've recycled both rhnsd and yum-updatesd, w/o results.
> >
> > Ideas?
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