Yum fails against Red Hat Network (RHN) Hosted with 'Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository' error
Issue
- Getting following error while running "yum list "
# yum list
Loaded plugins: downloadonly, rhnplugin, security
Error:
Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository:
rhel-x86_64-server-5. Please verify its path and try again
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6
- Red Hat Network (RHN)
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