Yum fails with error [Errno 14] HTTP Error 403: Forbidden.
Issue
- yum update fails with
Loaded plugins: product-id, rhnplugin, security, subscription-manager
Updating Red Hat repositories.
https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/5/5Server/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: rhel-5-server-rpms. Please verify its path and try again
- When trying to yum update a RHEL server using EPEL repositories, the following errors are observed:
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=x86_64 error was
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: epel. Please verify its path and try again
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6
- Red Hat Network (RHN)
- Red Hat Subscription Management(RHSM)
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