yum update fails

i have RHEL 6.3 [root@RHEL6 yum.repos.d]# uname -a Linux RHEL6.3-64-BuildMac 2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jun 13 18:24:36 EDT 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux My /etc/yum.conf looks like [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 reposdir=/etc/yum.repos.d/rhel.repo The contents of my /etc.yum.repo.d/rhel.repo looks like [rhelrepo] name=my rhel repo baseurl= #gpgkey= enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 

But my yum update fails with the following error

[root@RHEL6 yum.repos.d]# yum update Loaded plugins: product-id, security, subscription-manager Updating certificate-based repositories. Unable to read consumer identity Setting up Update Process No Packages marked for Update 

please could somebody help

4 Answers

Disable subscription manager and try

Change enable=0 in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/product-id.conf and /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/subscription-manager.conf

[main]

enabled=0

and then clean cache

rm -rfv /var/cache/yum/*

yum clean all

This may be of help. I haven't had this error myself, though, so I couldn't test.

RHEL requires that you identify yourself as a legitimate customer for updates, and the error message you posted seems to say that failed.

To fix the "Unable to read consumer identity" warning:

$ vi /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/subscription-manager.conf 

Then change enabled to 0 so the file looks like this:

[main] enabled=0 

Then your "Unable to read consumer identity" warning will go away. Also, your update probably was not failing, there were probably just no packages to update at the time. Leaving it with the warning is fine too, it has no functional impact.