Yum fails with "Excluding Packages from Red Hat Enterprise Linux "

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Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Issue

yum update failed with following output :

  • yum update
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin 
This system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or RHN Satellite. 

Excluding Packages from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 for 64-bit x86_64) Finished
Excluding Packages from RHEL FasTrack (v. 5 for 64-bit x86_64) Finished
Excluding Packages from RHEL Hardware Certification (v. 5 for 64-bit x86_64) Finished
Excluding Packages from RHEL Optional Productivity Apps (v. 5 for 64-bit x86_64) Finished 
Excluding Packages from RHEL Supplementary (v. 5 for 64-bit x86_64) Finished 
Excluding Packages from RHEL Virtualization (v. 5 for 64-bit x86_64) Finished 
Excluding Packages from Red Hat Network Tools for RHEL Server (v.5 64-bit x86_64) Finished

Resolution

This issue can be investigated from the following approaches

  • Check the yum configuration file i.e /etc/yum.conf for any exclude option enabled.

  • Verify /etc/yum.repos.d for for exlude option

  • Clear the yum cache

# yum clean all
# rm -rf /var/cache/yum/*

Diagnostic Steps

System calls while running yum command can be checked as below

 # strace -ff -o /tmp/strace/strace -tt -s 500 yum update

check /tmp/strace/strace file

  • Component
  • yum

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