yum commands on Red Hat Satellite 6 clients fails with error "[Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum"

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Issue

  • yum commands on Red Hat Satellite 6 clients fails with error [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
[root@client ~]# yum install vim
Loaded plugins: package_upload, product-id, security, subscription-manager
.........
.........
rhel-6-server-rpms/productid                                                           | 1.7 kB     00:00
https://satellite.example.com/pulp/repos/RedHat/Library/RHEL6-SOE/content/dist/rhel/server/6/6Server/x86_64/os/repodata/productid.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
# yum repolist
Loaded plugins: product-id, security, subscription-manager
rhel-5-Server- rpms                                         | 2.1 kB    00:00
rhel-5-server-satellite-tools-6.1-rpms                      | 2.1 kB    00:00
rhel-5-server-satellite-tools-6.1-rpms/primary              | 6.7 kB     00:00
https://satellite.example.com/pulp/repos/RedHat/Library/RHEL5-SOE/content/dist/rhel/server/5/5Server/i386/sat-tools/6.1/os/repodata/b5581ac29136afb029bc784cdc43301f8eea0565ff5105aaf5fc5c88d44a15ab-primary.xml.gz: [Errno -3] Error performing checksum   Trying other mirror.
rhel-5-server-satellite-tools-6.1-rpms/primary              | 6.7 kB     00:00
https://satellite.example.com/pulp/repos/RedHat/Library/RHEL5-SOE/content/dist/rhel/server/5/5Server/i386/sat-tools/6.1/os/repodata/b5581ac29136afb029bc784cdc43301f8eea0565ff5105aaf5fc5c88d44a15ab-primary.xml.gz: [Errno -3] Error performing checksum   Trying other mirror.
repo id                                                       repo name                                      Status 
rhel-5-server-rpms                                     Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server(RPMS)               10,982                      
rhel-5-server-satellite-tools-6.1-rpms                 Red Hat Satellite Tools 6.1(for RHEL 5 Server)(RPMS)     0
repolist: 10,982

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7

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