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OCI: OSMS Fails with Error: "There was an error communicating with OSMS server"

edited Aug 12, 2023 7:16AM in Linux 2 comments

APPLIES TO:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 

Linux x86-64


SYMPTOMS:

Unable to download rpm packages via yum or dnf , gives below error

$ dnf repolist
There was an error communicating with OSMS server.
OSMS based repositories will be disabled.
HTTPConnectionPool(host='127.0.0.1', port=9003): Max retries exceeded with url: /XMLRPC (Caused by 
NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7f45f8122080>: Failed to establish a new connection: 
[Errno 111] Connection refused',))
No repositories available
$


CAUSE:

The error usually relates to problems with communicating with OSMS severs. 


SOLUTION:

To resolve error - “There was an error communicating with OSMS server”

  • Verify if OSMS plugin in enabled, below output indicates OSMS plugin in disabled 

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