yum - There was an error communicating with CLN.

[venturemaker]

Hiya,

Today we noticed strange behavior of yum:

> root@server [~]# yum upd ate
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, rhnplugin
> There was an error communicating with CLN.
> CLN support will be disabled.
>
> Error Message:
> Your account does not have access to any channels matching (release=5Server, arch=x86_64-redhat-linux)
> Error Class Code: 19
> Error Class Info: Architecture and OS version combination is not supported.
> Explanation:
> An error has occurred while processing your request. If this problem
> persists please enter a bug report at bugzilla.redhat.com.
> If you choose to submit the bug report, please be sure to include
> details of what you were trying to do when this error occurred and
> details on how to reproduce this problem.
>
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> Excluding Packages in global exclude list
> Finished
> Se tting up Update Process
> No Packages marked for Update

Any ideas how to fix this? Thanks in advance 8)

[lkanter]

Hello,

please check if you have redhat-release package installed and uninstall it:

# rpm -e redhat-release

It should resolve this issue.