RHEL 7.3 registration / subscription problem

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I know that there's a 6.2 thread for this below - but I couldn't see how the solution applied to 7.3, so please bare with me (especially as my limited Linux skills haven't been exercised for five years!)

I successfully installed RHEL7 on my first PC (albeit after overcoming several pratfalls), and I thought it was all going swimmingly on my second PC. But no. I'm failing with subscribing after registering (and even forcing a registration) as follows:

[root@dhcppc9 ~]# subscription-manager register --username xxxx --password xxxxt --auto-attach --force
The system with UUID 78c4c4ef-4619-473b-b550-22832f4eb9fe has been unregistered
Registering to: subscription.rhsm.redhat.com:443/subscription
The system has been registered with ID: a97c776c-eb51-4360-a3b8-b1f5xxxxx

Installed Product Current Status:
Product Name: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Status: Not Subscribed

Unable to find available subscriptions for all your installed products.
[root@dhcppc9 ~]# subscription-manager list --available --all

No available subscription pools to list

I'm doing something dozy, I'm sure. Or can I only have a single system subscribed to a given customer portal user?

Any help much appreciated.

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Maybe in your case simply something went wrong.
Clean up everything and refresh the subscription :

sudo subscription-manager remove --all
sudo subscription-manager unregister
sudo subscription-manager clean

sudo subscription-manager register
sudo subscription-manager refresh
sudo subscription-manager attach --auto

If it still doesn't work, just contact the support team.

Many thanks for your suggestion; sadly, it didn't work ...

[natasha@dhcppc9 ~]$ sudo subscription-manager remove --all [sudo] password for natasha: 0 subscriptions removed at the server. [natasha@dhcppc9 ~]$ sudo subscription-manager unregister System has been unregistered. [natasha@dhcppc9 ~]$ sudo subscription-manager clean All local data removed [natasha@dhcppc9 ~]$ sudo subscription-manager register Registering to: subscription.rhsm.redhat.com:443/subscription Username: natashaxx Password: The system has been registered with ID: d4605ec4-bcb7-4ffe-9697-510f7c30b010 [natasha@dhcppc9 ~]$ sudo subscription-manager refresh All local data refreshed [natasha@dhcppc9 ~]$ sudo subscription-manager attach --auto

Installed Product Current Status: Product Name: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Status: Not Subscribed

Unable to find available subscriptions for all your installed products. [natasha@dhcppc9 ~]$ [natasha@dhcppc9 ~]$ subscription-manager list --available No available subscription pools to list [natasha@dhcppc9 ~]$ subscription-manager list --available --all No available subscription pools to list [natasha@dhcppc9 ~]$

I noticed there's a similar problem here from ages ago, resurrected today (https://access.redhat.com/discussions/1520743).

I'll go try the support bods.

Cheers.

Hi Natasha,

Maybe it will work when you try to (re)activate your subscription - you can do it here ->

https://access.redhat.com/subscriptions/activate/protected/activate.html

Hope it helps ... good luck ! :)

Cheers, Christian

Ah ha. I have just heard from the good support people at RH who suggest that I have only "one Development Suite entitlement purchased".

But, I have not actually "purchased" anything - I registered for the free 'non-commercial' Developer Suite for use on my home PC.

When I hit the problem I did, eventually (after trying every which way), wonder if there might be a limit of one installation on just a single box - though I don't remember reading of such a limitation (maybe it's in the small print, my bad), and the error doesn't indicate that this is the case at all.

I'm trying to run the "freebie" Developer Suite on my home PCs to play with Oracle 12c and 11g developer kits (freebie too). I was hoping to use separate installations on my two machines to keep things simple.

Bother. Thanks for your help. Natasha.

Hey Natasha, now things are clearing ... you can register only one physical system when you are subscribed to the RHEL developer edition, but you can register an unlimited amount of virtual systems, which means you can create and use an unlimited amount of virtual machines. Excerpt from FAQ (https://developers.redhat.com/articles/no-cost-rhel-faq/) ->

You may use this no-cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription on one physical system with up to eight processor sockets. If you are using a system with virtualization, you can install an unlimited number of guest virtual machines (VMs) on that system. Example : If you install Red Hat Enterprise Linux on a physical system, you may create an unlimited number of guest systems (virtual machines) on that host system using KVM/libvirt/QEMU virtualization or any other hypervisor.

Cheers, Christian

Hi Natasha,

Do you have access to the subscription tab of https:://access.redhat.com. If you access this tab, you will find a link systems. If you do not have access to the subscriptions tab, you need to find a colleague to do the below: Unregister your PC1, if you chose a new name for PC2, you could remove the PC1 profile completely.

Then run the subscription register steps again.

Regards,

Jan Gerrit

Hi I have the same issue and Natash reported. I've executed the statements as Christian Labisch (14 February 2017 3:42 PM) suggested but get exactly the same response as Natasha ( 14 February 2017 3:18 PM - unable to find subscription...). I've checked subscription and it is valid and active.

Was this resolved pls?

I experienced the same issue, same symptoms. Found this post on the Google and tried everything mentioned above. Nothing helped.

Then, I contacted Red Hat Support. They answered for 2-3 hours (great response time, for me), and wrote this:

"As per issue description, I understand that you are unable to see available subscription to attach to the system. I have refreshed your account. You should be able to see the subscription now. Please try to attach subscription and let me know the results."

After this, all worked like a charm, system successfuly assigned the 30-day evaluation licence when I tried again.

I hope this will help somebody

I install 7.5 version. I used subscription-manager tools to install service. The system had been registered but to status is not subscribed.

Hi Chi,

If the procedure I've provided in my first reply above doesn't solve it, you should contact Customer Support. :)

Regards,
Christian

I registered an account to get access to devtoolset-7 which is not available on RHEL 7.5 by default.
I compile software with devtoolset-7 on RHEL 7.5 machines in AWS in different environments. Every time I provision a new machine in AWS where we do this compilation, I need to register the machine with my account (I have two accounts btw). Sometimes the registration/refresh works and sometimes it doesn't. I understand what Christian has written above re: limits for physical machines etc. How does this apply in an AWS setting?
If I'm doing the compilation on two EC2 instances, how can I know what physical machine is being used underneath? Would a workaround be to de-register immediately after installing devtoolset-7 ?
Can still use it after de-registering I guess. Thanks.

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