[Errno 14] Peer cert cannot be verified or peer cert invalid when updating using yum on Amazon EC2 RHEL AMIs

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Environment

  • All certified Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.x/6.x  AMIs in any Amazon EC2 region

Issue

  • On Amazon EC2 RHEL AMIs receives the following error when issuing the 'yum update' command :

    "[Errno 14] Peer cert cannot be verified or peer cert invalid"

Resolution

  • Update the package rh-amazon-rhui-client in the affected RHEL AMIs as below:

    For RHEL AMIs in US-East:

RHEL5: rpm -Uhv http://redhat-clientconfig-us-east-1.s3.amazonaws.com/rh-amazon-rhui-client-2.2.16-1.el5.noarch.rpm
RHEL6: rpm -Uhv http://redhat-clientconfig-us-east-1.s3.amazonaws.com/rh-amazon-rhui-client-2.2.16-1.el6.noarch.rpm


For RHEL AMIs in US-West:
RHEL5: rpm -Uhv http://redhat-clientconfig-us-west-1.s3.amazonaws.com/rh-amazon-rhui-client-2.2.16-1.el5.noarch.rpm
RHEL6: rpm -Uhv http://redhat-clientconfig-us-west-1.s3.amazonaws.com/rh-amazon-rhui-client-2.2.16-1.el6.noarch.rpm


For RHEL AMIs in EU-West:
RHEL5: rpm -Uhv http://redhat-clientconfig-eu-west-1.s3.amazonaws.com/rh-amazon-rhui-client-2.2.16-1.el5.noarch.rpm
RHEL6: rpm -Uhv http://redhat-clientconfig-eu-west-1.s3.amazonaws.com/rh-amazon-rhui-client-2.2.16-1.el6.noarch.rpm


For RHEL AMIs in AP-Northeast:
RHEL5: rpm -Uhv http://redhat-clientconfig-ap-northeast-1.s3.amazonaws.com/rh-amazon-rhui-client-2.2.16-1.el5.noarch.rpm
RHEL6: rpm -Uhv http://redhat-clientconfig-ap-northeast-1.s3.amazonaws.com/rh-amazon-rhui-client-2.2.16-1.el6.noarch.rpm


For RHEL AMIs in AP-Southeast:
RHEL5: rpm -Uhv http://redhat-clientconfig-ap-southeast-1.s3.amazonaws.com/rh-amazon-rhui-client-2.2.16-1.el5.noarch.rpm
RHEL6: rpm -Uhv http://redhat-clientconfig-ap-southeast-1.s3.amazonaws.com/rh-amazon-rhui-client-2.2.16-1.el6.noarch.rpm

  • After updating the package run the following:

    # yum clean all

  •    Now re-run the system update using 'yum update' command.

  • Component
  • yum

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