On RHEL client, yum update fails with error "[Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found", yum was unable to download "repomd.xml.asc" file.

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Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6.x
  • Red Hat Update Infrastructure 2.1
  • yum

Issue

  • Yum was trying to download repomd.xml.asc file on RHEL client while running yum update and have encountered [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found error message.

Error from Satellite/Customer Portal Client:

https://satellite.example.com/pulp/repos/Org/Library/content/dist/rhel/server/7/7Server/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml.asc: [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found
Trying other mirror.
rhel-7-server-rpms/x86_64                                                                                                                             | 2.0 kB  00:00:00     
https://satellite.example.com/pulp/repos/Org/Library/content/dist/rhel/server/7/7Server/x86_64/sat-tools/6.2/os/repodata/repomd.xml.asc: [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found

Error from RHUI client:

https://cds.example.com/pulp/repos//rhui-client-config/rhel/server/7/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml.asc: [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found
Trying other mirror.
rhui-REGION-client-config-server-7                                                                                                                                                    | 2.9 kB  00:00:00
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failure: repodata/repomd.xml.asc from rhui-REGION-client-config-server-7: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
https://cds.example.com/pulp/repos//rhui-client-config/rhel/server/7/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml.asc: [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found
https://cds.example.com/pulp/repos//rhui-client-config/rhel/server/7/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml.asc: [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found

Resolution

  • As GPG armor is not enabled on server side, so ensure repo_gpgcheck is set to 0 in yum.conf file for RHEL clients.

    NOTE : repo_gpgcheck either 1 or 0 tells yum whether or not it should perform a GPG signature check on the repodata. When this is set in the [main] section, it sets the default for all repositories. The default is 0.

  • Now run yum update to confirm.

Root Cause

  • Currently Red Hat products (Customer Portal, Red Hat Satellite, RHUI..etc) does not support repo gpgcheck option yet.
  • Yum was trying to download repomd.xml.asc as repo_gpgcheck was set to 1.
  • As yum was unable to locate repomd.xml.asc on the server due to GPG armor disabled, it was failing with [Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found error message.
  • Component
  • yum

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