Any yum or subscription-manager transaction results in "tuple index out of range"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • yum & subscription-manager transactions are slow
  • yum & subscription-manager transactions fails with:

    From /var/log/rhsm/rhsm.log:
    2017-05-09 15:06:26,619 [INFO] yum:5750:MainThread @connection.py:758 - Connection built: host=subscription.rhsm.redhat.com port=443 handler=/subscription auth=identity_cert ca_dir=/etc/rhsm/ca/ insecure=False
    2017-05-09 15:06:26,629 [INFO] yum:5750:MainThread @connection.py:758 - Connection built: host=subscription.rhsm.redhat.com port=443 handler=/subscription auth=identity_cert ca_dir=/etc/rhsm/ca/ insecure=False
    2017-05-09 15:15:49,957 [INFO] subscription-manager:5758:MainThread @managercli.py:389 - Client Versions: {'python-rhsm': '1.18.6-1.el6', 'subscription-manager': '1.18.10-1.el6'}
    2017-05-09 15:15:49,958 [INFO] subscription-manager:5758:MainThread @connection.py:758 - Connection built: host=subscription.rhsm.redhat.com port=443 handler=/subscription auth=identity_cert ca_dir=/etc/rhsm/ca/ insecure=False
    2017-05-09 15:15:49,958 [INFO] subscription-manager:5758:MainThread @connection.py:758 - Connection built: host=subscription.rhsm.redhat.com port=443 handler=/subscription auth=none
    2017-05-09 15:15:49,958 [INFO] subscription-manager:5758:MainThread @managercli.py:364 - Consumer Identity name=vm-<name>.<gov/com/net> uuid=6bae8a97-225c-4ef8-a6de-065958c2e5da
    2017-05-09 15:18:50,121 [ERROR] subscription-manager:5758:MainThread @managercli.py:177 - Unregister failed
    2017-05-09 15:18:50,122 [ERROR] subscription-manager:5758:MainThread @managercli.py:178 - tuple index out of range
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/subscription_manager/managercli.py", line 1317, in _do_command
    managerlib.unregister(self.cp, self.identity.uuid)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/subscription_manager/managerlib.py", line 792, in unregister
    uep.unregisterConsumer(consumer_uuid)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rhsm/connection.py", line 1070, in unregisterConsumer
    return self.conn.request_delete(method)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rhsm/connection.py", line 635, in request_delete
    return self._request("DELETE", method, params)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rhsm/connection.py", line 501, in _request
    conn.request(request_type, handler, body=body, headers=headers)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rhsm/m2cryptohttp.py", line 179, in request
    return self._connection.request(method, handler, *args, **kwargs)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 976, in request
    if v.args[0] != 32 or not self.auto_open:
    IndexError: tuple index out of range
    

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