Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Bad id for repo: exam repo, byte = 4 --> yum repolist error







To stop rhel7 from asking me to register the system during yum repo setup - imported the RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release. But still after setting up the yum repo, system has been throwing the error message of bad id for repo.

[root@server1 Packages]# yum repolist
Loaded plugins: langpacks, product-id, subscription-manager
This system is not registered to Red Hat Subscription Management. You can use subscription-manager to register.
Bad id for repo: exam repo, byte =   4

Before:

[root@server1 Packages]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/localcoverage.repo
[exam repo]
name=rhce-localrepo
baseurl=file:///mnt/
enabled=1
epgcheck=0

After:

[root@server1 Packages]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/localcoverage.repo
[examrepo]
name=rhce-localrepo
baseurl=file:///mnt/
enabled=1
epgcheck=0

[root@server1 mnt]# yum repolist
Loaded plugins: langpacks, product-id, subscription-manager
This system is not registered to Red Hat Subscription Management. You can use subscription-manager to register.
repo id                                                              repo name                                                                   status
examrepo                                                             rhce-localrepo                                                              4,305
repolist: 4,305

Disclaimer : This is for my reference - Please use at your own discretion.

Happy Linux!


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