When upgrading/installing packages receiving the following message "[Errno 14] HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error"
Issue
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When upgrading/installing packages the clients receive a 500 error:
openais-0.80.6-16.el5_5.1.x86_64: failed to retrieve getPackage/openais-0.80.6-16.el5_5.1.x86_64.rpm from rhel-x86_64-server-5 error was [Errno 14] HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error
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Systems are behind RHN proxy and it also sends out a mail on following error
Exception Handler Information Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/rhn/proxy/apacheServer.py", line 66, in __call__ ret = f(req) File "/usr/share/rhn/proxy/apacheHandler.py", line 348, in handler ret = handlerObj.handler() File "/usr/share/rhn/proxy/redirect/rhnRedirect.py", line 93, in handler status = self._serverCommo(self.req.read()) # part 2 File "/usr/share/rhn/proxy/rhnShared.py", line 217, in _serverCommo return self._handleServerResponse(status) File "/usr/share/rhn/proxy/redirect/rhnRedirect.py", line 165, in _handleServerResponse redirectStatus = self.__redirectFailover() File "/usr/share/rhn/proxy/redirect/rhnRedirect.py", line 413, in __redirectFailover self._connectToParent() File "/usr/share/rhn/proxy/rhnShared.py", line 102, in _connectToParent self.responseContext.setConnection(self._create_connection()) File "/usr/share/rhn/proxy/responseContext.py", line 62, in setConnection self._getCurrentContext()[CXT_CONNECTION] = connection File "/usr/share/rhn/proxy/responseContext.py", line 101, in _getCurrentContext return self._contextStack[-1] IndexError: list index out of range
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RHN Proxy trying to fetch packages from behind a HTTP proxy, client gets errors like
libexif-0.6.20.1.el5_7.1.x86_64: failed to retrieve getPackage/libexif-0.6.20-1.el5_7.1.x86_64.rpm from rhel-x86_64-server-5 error was [Errno 14] HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error
squid proxy sees errors like
127.0.0.1 TCP_MISS/500 GET http://127.0.0.1/XMLRPC/GET-REQ/rhel-x86_64-server-5-repodata/<longstring>-primaru.xml.gz - DIRECT/127.0.0.1 text-html
127.0.0.1 TCP_NEGATIVE_HIT/500 http://127.0.0.1/XMLRPC/GET-REQ/rhel-x86_64-server-5/getPackage/whatever.el6.x86_64.rpm - DIRECT/127.0.0.1 text-html
- Yum was throwing following error while updating via RHN proxy:
# yum update
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin
Error: failed to retrieve repodata/e7c6c5aaa65cca1cca463e055368e27165518044-primary.xml.gz from rhel-i386-server-5
error was [Errno 14] HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error
- On RHN Proxy we see below error
[error] OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/spool/rhn-proxy/list'
Environment
- Red Hat Network Proxy
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