"Error validating satellite certificate" error during Red Hat Satellite install
Issue
- At the end of the installation for Red Hat Satellite, the following error when activating the Red Hat Satellite certificate is given:
Error validating satellite certificate: 1
There was a problem validating the satellite certificate: 1
rhn-satellite-activate
fails withERROR: unhandled exception occurred
and at the traceback sayssocket.timeout: timed out
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Red Hat Satellite
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