On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, yum fails with with error "[Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 51"

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Issue

  • On RHEL 6, yum install fails with with error [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 51
  • On RHEL 6, yum install fails with with error Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: rhel-x86_64-server-6. Please verify its path and try again

  • On RHEL 6 if you enter the serverURL as the short name instead of FQDN of satellite then it fails with an error. But doing the same on RHEL5 it works without any errors.

  • Example:
Error Downloading Packages:
 kernel-2.6.32-71.7.1.el6.i686: failed to retrieve getPackage/kernel-2.6.32-71.7.1.el6.i686.rpm from rhel-i386-server-6
error was [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 51 - ""
 kernel-firmware-2.6.32-71.7.1.el6.noarch: failed to retrieve getPackage/kernel-firmware-2.6.32-71.7.1.el6.noarch.rpm from rhel-i386-server-6
error was [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 51 - ""

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Satellite

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