Registering RHEL system with rhnreg_ks fails with Could not retrieve action

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Issue

When running rhnreg_ks, it takes a long time to complete and then fails.

# rhnreg_ks --proxy "http:/example.com:3128" --username "user" --password "pwd"
Could not retrieve action from <RetryServer for xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC>.
Possible networking problem?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (RHEL) 5.2

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