Satellite certificate activation fails with "socket.error: (110, 'Connection timed out')"

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Issue

  • Attempted to install the cert and got this error: 
[root@Satellite sysconfig]# rhn-satellite-activate -vvv --rhn-cert=/path/to/satellite.cert
RHN_PARENT: satellite.rhn.redhat.com 
HTTP_PROXY: myproxy 
HTTP_PROXY_USERNAME: None 
HTTP_PROXY_PASSWORD: <password> 
CA_CERT: /usr/share/rhn/RHNS-CA-CERT 

<snip>
 :
 :
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rhn/connections.py", line 166, in connect
    HTTPConnection.connect(self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rhn/connections.py", line 144, in connect
    httplib.HTTPConnection.connect(self)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/httplib.py", line 720, in connect
    self.timeout)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/socket.py", line 567, in create_connection
    raise error, msg
socket.error: [Errno 110] Connection timed out
</snip>

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 5.x

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