Yum Update Fails With Message "AttributeError: 'RhnRepo' Object Has No Attribute '_retry_no_cache'" (Doc ID 2369042.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 27, 2023

Applies to:

Symptoms

After successfully registering an Oracle Linux 7 system to ULN,  the yum update fails with the following message.

# yum update
Loaded plugins: langpacks, rhnplugin, ulninfo
This system is receiving updates from ULN.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 365, in user_main
errcode = main(args)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 174, in main
result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 573, in doCommands
return self.yum_cli_commands[self.basecmd].doCommand(self, self.basecmd, self.extcmds)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yumcommands.py", line 2149, in doCommand
base.repos.populateSack()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 383, in populateSack
sack.populate(repo, mdtype, callback, cacheonly)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 224, in populate
if self._check_db_version(repo, mydbtype):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 316, in _check_db_version
return repo._check_db_version(mdtype)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1484, in _check_db_version
repoXML = self.repoXML
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1670, in <lambda>
repoXML = property(fget=lambda self: self._getRepoXML(),
File "/usr/share/yum-plugins/rhnplugin.py", line 578, in _getRepoXML
return YumRepository._getRepoXML(self)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1666, in _getRepoXML
self._loadRepoXML(text=self.ui_id)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1657, in _loadRepoXML
return self._groupLoadRepoXML(text, self._mdpolicy2mdtypes())
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1631, in _groupLoadRepoXML
if self._commonLoadRepoXML(text):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1456, in _commonLoadRepoXML
result = self._getFileRepoXML(local, text)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1234, in _getFileRepoXML
size=102400) # setting max size as 100K
File "/usr/share/yum-plugins/rhnplugin.py", line 390, in _getFile
start, end, copy_local, checkfunc, text, reget, cache, size)
File "/usr/share/yum-plugins/rhnplugin.py", line 494, in _noExceptionWrappingGet
retry_no_cache=self._retry_no_cache
AttributeError: 'RhnRepo' object has no attribute '_retry_no_cache'

Cause

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