yum fails with "ssl handshake failure" error
Issue
- While updating packages via yum it fails with following error
# yum update
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 309, in user_main
errcode = main(args)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 157, in main
base.getOptionsConfig(args)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 187, in getOptionsConfig
self.conf
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 664, in <lambda>
conf = property(fget=lambda self: self._getConfig(),
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 253, in _getConfig
self.plugins.run('init')
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 179, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/rhnplugin.py", line 127, in init_hook
svrChannels = rhnChannel.getChannelDetails()
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnChannel.py", line 86, in getChannelDetails
sourceChannels = getChannels()
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnChannel.py", line 112, in getChannels
up2dateChannels = s.up2date.listChannels(up2dateAuth.getSystemId())
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnserver.py", line 50, in __call__
return rpcServer.doCall(method, *args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 199, in doCall
ret = method(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1096, in __call__
return self.__send(self.__name, args)
File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 38, in _request1
ret = self._request(methodname, params)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhn/rpclib.py", line 326, in _request
self._handler, request, verbose=self._verbose)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhn/transports.py", line 171, in request
headers, fd = req.send_http(host, handler)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhn/transports.py", line 700, in send_http
headers=self.headers)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/httplib.py", line 810, in request
self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/httplib.py", line 833, in _send_request
self.endheaders()
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 664, in send
self.sock.sendall(str)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rhn/SSL.py", line 215, in write
sent = self._connection.send(data)
OpenSSL.SSL.Error: [('SSL routines', 'SSL23_WRITE', 'ssl handshake failure')]
- yum update running in a cronjob fails with following error.
Error Type: <class 'OpenSSL.SSL.Error'>
Error Value: [('SSL routines', 'SSL3_WRITE_BYTES', 'ssl handshake failure')]
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Network (RHN) Hosted
- Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite
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