rhel7 yum repolist error

Question

Since I Ctrl-C during yum install xxx on my RHEL7

^Chttps://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/7/7Server/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] curl#56 - "Callback aborted"
Trying other mirror.

I got the following error. How to fix it?

$ yum repolist
Loaded plugins: langpacks, product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager
Repo rhel-7-server-rpms forced skip_if_unavailable=True due to: /etc/pki/entitlement/6004208575190148944-key.pem
https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/server/7/7Server/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] curl#58 - "unable to load client key: -8178 (SEC_ERROR_BAD_KEY)"
Trying other mirror.

yum clean all doesn't help

Solution

Based only on your shell prompt being $ and not #, I assume that you are running the command as a non-root user, and are thus unable to read the entitlement key at /etc/pki/entitlement/6004208575190148944-key.pem, which on my default RHEL7 system, have permissions:

-rw-------. 1 root root ...

The quick solution is to prefix your command with sudo, or to log in as root before running the command. I presume you have permissions, based on your earlier attempt to perform a yum install.

Comments

[Jeff Schaller]

Does an ls -l on the key file show a non-zero size?

[irom]

Yes, ls -l /etc/pki/entitlement/6004208575190148944-key.pem -rw-------. 1 root root 1675 Dec 15 01:21 /etc/pki/entitlement/6004208575190148944-key.pem

[irom]

Same result with #yum install xxx as root (or #yum repolist) . I must have broken some repo when I used Ctrl-C and now don't know how to fix it.