So I'm running a Virtual RHEL Server 6.0 as a lab server (Hosted on Hyper-V) to remember and practice. I managed to RPM install subscription-manager package since RHN Classic is no longer up.
To get this done in a clean RHEL 6.0 installation I did the following:
- Downloaded, installed/upgraded the required dependencies to install the
subscription-manager package.
- Then downloaded and installed the lastest SM package available in RH Customer Portal for RHEL 6 (
subscription-manager-1.20.10-8.el6.x86_64.rpm).
- After that, I was able to successfully register the system. But when I tried to subscribe, it failed with this error:
No Installed products on system. No need to attach subscriptions.
- Due to this error I generated a
.pem certificate using RH Portal as explained in this link https://access.redhat.com/solutions/691873 and then put it in /etc/pki/product and ran the commands:
# restorecon -Rv /etc/pki/product
# chown root.root /etc/pki/product/69.pem
# chmod 644 /etc/pki/product/69.pem
# rct cat-cert /etc/pki/product/69.pem
- Finally I was able to successfully attach a subscription:
[root@rhel6-lab ~]# subscription-manager list
+-------------------------------------------+
Installed Product Status
+-------------------------------------------+
Product Name: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Product ID: 69
Version: 6.0
Arch: x86_64
Status: Subscribed
Status Details:
Starts: 01/30/2022
Ends: 01/30/2025
The issue I have is when I run yum repolist or try any package installation/upgrade I get an error like this:
[root@rhel6-lab ~]# yum update
Loaded plugins: product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager
Setting up Update Process
https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/6/6Server/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] problem with the local client certificate
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: rhel-6-server-rpms. Please verify its path and try again
[root@rhel6-lab ~]#
I have tried the following without success:
- Unsubscribing and subscribing again.
- Checked whether if the sslclientkey and sslclientcert
.pem files were in the folder /etc/pki/entitlement/ according to /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat.repo file.
- Tried to run
subscription-manager identity --regenerate --force and run my credentials again.
- Checked if the path
/var/cache/yum/x86_64/6Server/rhel-6-server-rpms/packages/ existed.
- Disabled RHN Classic (
/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf).
- Reinstalling RHEL 6.0 and subscription-manager.
- Checking server facts by running
subscription-manager facts --list.
I also tried subscribing RHEL 6.5 and RHEL 6.10 servers and run updates (to discard RHEL 6 repos being disconnected), both versions allowed me to run updates. I also compared the repo file /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat.repo with version 6.0 and are exactly the same, except for the sslclientkey and sslclientcert of course.
This is my /etc/yum.conf file:
[root@rhel6-lab ~]# cat /etc/yum.conf
[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum/$basearch/$releasever
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1
installonly_limit=3
# This is the default, if you make this bigger yum won't see if the metadata
# is newer on the remote and so you'll "gain" the bandwidth of not having to
# download the new metadata and "pay" for it by yum not having correct
# information.
# It is esp. important, to have correct metadata, for distributions like
# Fedora which don't keep old packages around. If you don't like this checking
# interupting your command line usage, it's much better to have something
# manually check the metadata once an hour (yum-updatesd will do this).
# metadata_expire=90m
# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d
[root@rhel6-lab ~]#
I'm running out of options, can't find the solution to update RHEL 6.0 in spite of being properly subscribed to Customer Portal, I can see the consumed subscription.
