On Red Hat Satellite when running `satellite-sync`, it shows an SSL exception (-1, 'Unexpected EOF')

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Issue

  • When running satellite-sync, it shows an SSL exception (-1, 'Unexpected EOF'), for example:
# satellite-sync -l
19:44:43 Red Hat Network Satellite - live synchronization
19:44:43    url: https://satellite.rhn.redhat.com
19:44:43    debug/output level: 1
19:44:44    db:  rhnsat/<password>@rhnsat
19:44:44
19:44:44 Retrieving / parsing channel-families data
19:44:46 channel-families data complete
Pushing scout configs to all monitoring scouts
19:44:47
19:44:47 Retrieving / parsing channel data
SSL exception (-1, 'Unexpected EOF')
Exception reported from dc1nmw1002.noctools.local
Time: Thu Nov 11 19:45:15 2010
Exception type httplib.IncompleteRead

Exception Handler Information
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/rhn/satellite_tools/xmlSource.py", line 132, in process
    self.__parser.parse(self.__stream)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/_xmlplus/sax/expatreader.py", line 109, in parse
    xmlreader.IncrementalParser.parse(self, source)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/_xmlplus/sax/xmlreader.py", line 124, in parse
    buffer = file.read(self._bufsize)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhn/transports.py", line 797, in read
    return self.file_obj.read(amt)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/gzip.py", line 225, in read
    self._read(readsize)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gzipstream.py", line 161, in _read
    buf = self.stream.read(size)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gzipstream.py", line 392, in read
    buf = self._read(fetchSize)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gzipstream.py", line 361, in _read
    buf = self.fo.read(_StreamBuf.__MIN_READ_SIZE)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhn/connections.py", line 35, in read
    return self._read_chunked(amt)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/httplib.py", line 511, in _read_chunked
    value += self._safe_read(amt)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/httplib.py", line 557, in _safe_read
    raise IncompleteRead(s)
IncompleteRead: []

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 5.6, 5.7

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