Yum update on a Content Host registered to Red Hat Satellite fails with `TypeError: int argument required`.

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Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6.x
  • RHEL 5.11

Issue

  • Updating an RHEL 5.11 machine registered to Red Hat Satellite fails with the following traceback:

    File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
    yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 309, in user_main
    errcode = main(args)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 261, in main
    return_code = base.doTransaction()
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 398, in doTransaction
    problems = self.downloadPkgs(downloadpkgs, callback_total=self.download_callback_total_cb) 
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1369, in downloadPkgs
    cache=po.repo.http_caching != 'none',
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 838, in getPackage
    cache=cache
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 811, in _getFile
    http_headers=headers,
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/mirror.py", line 412, in urlgrab
    return self._mirror_try(func, url, kw)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/mirror.py", line 398, in _mirror_try
    return func_ref( *(fullurl,), **kwargs )
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 936, in urlgrab
    return self._retry(opts, retryfunc, url, filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 854, in _retry
    r = apply(func, (opts,) + args, {})
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 922, in retryfunc
    fo = URLGrabberFileObject(url, filename, opts)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1010, in __init__
    self._do_open()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1093, in _do_open
    fo, hdr = self._make_request(req, opener)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1202, in _make_request
    fo = opener.open(req)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 364, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 471, in http_response
    response = self.parent.error(
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 396, in error
    result = self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 337, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 565, in http_error_302
    return self.parent.open(new)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 358, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 376, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 337, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/M2Crypto/m2urllib2.py", line 82, in https_open
    h.request(req.get_method(), req.get_selector(), req.data, headers)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/httplib.py", line 810, in request
    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/httplib.py", line 833, in _send_request
    self.endheaders()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/M2Crypto/httpslib.py", line 172, in endheaders
    HTTPSConnection.endheaders(self)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/httplib.py", line 804, in endheaders
    self._send_output()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/httplib.py", line 685, in _send_output
   self.send(msg)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/httplib.py", line 652, in send
    self.connect()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/M2Crypto/httpslib.py", line 178, in connect
    self.sock.sendall(self._get_connect_msg())
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/M2Crypto/httpslib.py", line 192, in _get_connect_msg
    msg = "CONNECT %s:%d HTTP/1.1\r\n" % (self._real_host, self._real_port)
TypeError: int argument required

Resolution

  • Disable proxy on Content Host at /etc/rhsm/rhsm.conf.

Root Cause

  • There is a proxy between the Content Host and Red Hat Satellite:

    [root@content_hosts]# cat /etc/rhsm/rhsm.conf|grep -i proxy
# an http proxy server to use
proxy_hostname =proxy.redhat.com   <<======
# port for http proxy server
proxy_port =8080       <<======
# user name for authenticating to an http proxy, if needed
proxy_user =
# password for basic http proxy auth, if needed
proxy_password =
  • Component
  • yum

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