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Bug 1262998 - Attempting to register --consumerid=DELETED_CONSUMER tells you to use --refresh that doesn't exist.
Summary: Attempting to register --consumerid=DELETED_CONSUMER tells you to use --refre...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: subscription-manager
Version: 6.8
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
high
low
Target Milestone: pre-dev-freeze
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Assignee: vritant
QA Contact: John Sefler
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-09-14 20:49 UTC by Adrian Likins
Modified: 2016-05-10 20:37 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2016-05-10 20:37:15 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2016:0797 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE python-rhsm and subscription-manager bug fix and enhancement update 2017-01-06 16:31:50 UTC

Description Adrian Likins 2015-09-14 20:49:23 UTC 
Description of problem:

# Register a system.
# Delete it server side
# either keep the local certs, or copy them back

# Then attempt to register with that consumer id --consumerid

[subscription-manager (master u=)]$ sudo bin/subscription-manager register --consumerid=d157351a-97d6-4e66-8759-a9f090628df5
This system is already registered. Use --force to override

# Ok, that sounds reasonable, even if I know it will still fail.

[subscription-manager (master u=)]$ sudo bin/subscription-manager register --consumerid=d157351a-97d6-4e66-8759-a9f090628df5 --force
Error: Can not force registration while attempting to recover registration with consumerid. Please use --force without --consumerid to re-register or --refresh

# Ok, that's what I thought would happen. But... --refresh? what is --refresh

[subscription-manager (master u=)]$ sudo bin/subscription-manager register --consumerid=d157351a-97d6-4e66-8759-a9f090628df5 --force --refresh
Usage: subscription-manager register [OPTIONS]

subscription-manager: error: no such option: --refresh

# There is no --refresh. The --refresh is a lie.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
github master as of 6780c53f27312e5df4f70637e11b34d1c3354b47
Comment 2 Alex Wood 2015-09-15 19:06:11 UTC 
Is --refresh meant to reference the subscription-manager refresh command?  I'm wondering if just removing the '--' from the translated strings would work (and not require any string changes from translators).
Comment 3 John Sefler 2015-09-25 17:09:56 UTC 
deferring to rhel-7.3.0 due to schedule and severity

This requires a string change and we are currently past String freeze and translations for rhel7.2
Comment 4 Barnaby Court 2015-11-20 16:38:35 UTC 
High priority due to string update
Comment 9 Shwetha Kallesh 2016-03-31 07:15:20 UTC 
Marking verified!!

[root@dhcp35-15 ~]# subscription-manager version
server type: Red Hat Subscription Management
subscription management server: 0.9.51.15-1
subscription management rules: 5.15.1
subscription-manager: 1.16.8-8.el6
python-rhsm: 1.16.6-1.el6


[root@dhcp35-15 ~]# subscription-manager register --consumerid=f4e003cf-a904-4873-9584-6f274066ee1b --force
Error: Can not force registration while attempting to recover registration with consumerid. Please use --force without --consumerid to re-register or use the clean command and try again without --force.
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2016-05-10 20:37:15 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-0797.html
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