"rhui-manager" throws error while syncing all repositories on RHUA server, even though entitlement certificate is valid

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • How to generate and download latest "Content / Entitlement" certificate for RHUA server from customer portal ?

  • rhui-manager fails to sync repositories

-= Repository Synchronization Status =-
Last Refreshed: 12:24:55

Next Sync                    Last Sync                    Last Result         
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server - Supplementary from RHUI (Debug RPMs) (5Server-i386)
09-23-2013 13:44             08-15-2013 13:44             Error      

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server - Supplementary from RHUI (Debug RPMs) (5Server-x86_64)
09-23-2013 13:44             08-15-2013 13:44             Error      

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server - Supplementary from RHUI (RPMs) (5Server-i386)
09-23-2013 13:44             08-15-2013 13:46             Error      

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server - Supplementary from RHUI (RPMs) (5Server-x86_64)
09-23-2013 13:44             08-15-2013 13:47             Error      

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server - Supplementary from RHUI (Source RPMs) (5Server-i386)
09-23-2013 13:44             08-15-2013 13:45             Error      

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server - Supplementary from RHUI (Source RPMs) (5Server-x86_64)
09-23-2013 13:44             08-15-2013 13:45             Error      

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server from RHUI (Debug RPMs) (5Server-i386)
09-23-2013 17:44             08-15-2013 11:52             Error      

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server from RHUI (Debug RPMs) (5Server-x86_64)
09-23-2013 17:44             08-15-2013 11:55             Error      

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server from RHUI (RPMs) (5Server-i386)
09-23-2013 17:37             08-15-2013 18:00             Error      

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server from RHUI (RPMs) (5Server-x86_64)
09-23-2013 17:37             08-15-2013 18:06             Error      

Bellow error message seen in grinder.log

2013-09-23 12:39:23,366 14125:140433789273856: grinder.YumInfo:ERROR: activeobject:160 Caught exception when trying to fetch repomd.xml from [https://cdn.redhat.com//content/dist/rhel/rhui/server/5/5Server/x86_64/os]: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: . Please verify its path and try again
2013-09-23 12:39:23,366 14125:140433789273856: grinder.Retry:ERROR: activeobject:160 Attempt 4: Caught exception: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: . Please verify its path and try again. Will retry in 20 seconds.

Environment

  • Red Hat Update Infrastructure 2.1
  • Red Hat Update Infrastructure 3.0

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