Bug 513086

Summary: yum update 64 bit fails on new install. Error 405: Method Not Allowed
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Gar Nelson <garnbox-rhn>
Component: yumAssignee: James Antill <james.antill>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Version: 5.5CC: agospoda
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Description Gar Nelson 2009-07-21 22:28:59 UTC 
Created attachment 354596 [details]
error file from yum failure

Description of problem:
command line "yum update" fails with:
https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC/GET-REQ/rhel-x86_64-client-workstation-5/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 405: Method Not Allowed
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: rhel-x86_64-client-workstation-5. Please verify its path and try again

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-metadata-parser-1.0-8.fc6
yum-3.0.1-5.el5
yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-2.el5
yum-3.2.19-18.el5_3.1
yum-updatesd-3.0.1-5.el5
yum-rhn-plugin-0.4.3-1.el5

How reproducible:
Fails every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1.yum update
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Actual results:
[root@app-ggw ~]# yum update
Loaded plugins: installonlyn, rhnplugin
https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC/GET-REQ/rhel-x86_64-client-workstation-5/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 405: Method Not Allowed
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: rhel-x86_64-client-workstation-5. Please verify its path and try again
[root@app-ggw ~]# 

Expected results:
Yum to identify, download, and install updates

Additional info:
Comment 1 James Antill 2009-07-22 04:18:13 UTC 
 You have two versions of yum and yum-metadata-parser there. That's bad. If you get the latest versions of yum, yum-metadata-parser and yum-rhn-plugin and remove all the other versions and install the latest ones I'm pretty sure all your problems will go away.