The RHUI clients fail for yum command with message 'M2Crypto.SSL.SSLError: certificate verify failed'

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Issue

  • The RHUI RHEL 5.4 client is failing for yum command with below message,
  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 47, in connect
    self.sock.connect((self.host, self.port))
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/M2Crypto/SSL/Connection.py", line 156, in connect
    ret = self.connect_ssl()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/M2Crypto/SSL/Connection.py", line 149, in connect_ssl
    return m2.ssl_connect(self.ssl, self._timeout)
M2Crypto.SSL.SSLError: certificate verify failed

Environment

  • Red Hat Update Infrastructure 2.x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Package openssl-0.9.8e-12.el5_4.1 or below version installed

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