yum/up2date SSL Cert problems

[jiggolo182]

ok, so I get the following error when I try to use yum or pirut to update my system. It sorta looks like up2date is causing the problem but I don't even have that installed on the system. Any ideas on how to solve this. I can't update anything.. even manually, because of all the dependencies.. what a nightmare!


Loading "security" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 85, in main
base.getOptionsConfig(args)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 199, in getOptionsConfig
errorlevel=opts.errorlevel)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 134, in doConfigSetup
self.plugins.run('init')
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 153, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/rhnplugin.py", line 76, in init_hook
login_info = up2dateAuth.getLoginInfo()
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateAuth.py", line 139, in getLoginInfo
login()
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateAuth.py", line 98, 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.SSLCertificateVerifyF ailedError: The SSL certificate failed verification.

[DrChuck]

That looks really strange. Are you running Fedora, or Red Hat, or what? And are you trying to run yum manually from a console, or through some front-end program?

drChuck

[jiggolo182]

I am running RHEL5 on a comp at work. I seem to have fixed the problem after talking to some people in the irc room. I installed some package, EPEL, which reconfigures yum and updates it. I was trying to run yum from command line and that is the error I received. I tried using Pirut (a gui wrapper for yum) but that gave me the same error. Everything seems to be working now though. Thanks!