I am RHEL 5 x86_64 server to download the "rhel-x86_64-server-5" repository from Red Hat using reposync and it keeps on failing with errors. I tried it multiple times and updated few packages and then fails again. I have pasted the error I got below. Please help.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/reposync", line 291, in ?
main()
File "/usr/bin/reposync", line 268, in main
path = repo.getPackage(pkg)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 853, in getPackage
cache=cache
File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/rhnplugin.py", line 311, in _getFile
start, end, copy_local, checkfunc, text, reget, cache)
File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/rhnplugin.py", line 404, in _noExceptionWrappingGet
timeout=self.timeout
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 936, in urlgrab
return self._retry(opts, retryfunc, url, filename)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 854, in _retry
r = apply(func, (opts,) + args, {})
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 922, in retryfunc
fo = URLGrabberFileObject(url, filename, opts)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1010, in __init__
self._do_open()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1093, in _do_open
fo, hdr = self._make_request(req, opener)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1202, in _make_request
fo = opener.open(req)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 358, in open
response = self._open(req, data)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 376, in _open
'_open', req)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 337, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/M2Crypto/m2urllib2.py", line 82, in https_open
h.request(req.get_method(), req.get_selector(), req.data, headers)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/httplib.py", line 813, in request
if v[0] != 32 or not self.auto_open:
IndexError: tuple index out of range

Do you have selinux enabled? .. I recently updated and found a couple of issues.

No, I have disabled the SELinux feature on this machine.

And the host is registered with RHN ?

Yes, it is registered with RHN

Does a 'yum update' succeed? ..

yum updates fine

Sorry, I'm out of ideas, have you opened a support ticket?

I have opened a case with redhat, they have no clue either. They suggested that there could be a problem with my proxy server, which I verified and found nothing wrong with it.

Thanks for help, appreciate you time....this is a very peculiar problem, I have done this before when I was maintaining depot servers but I never ran into these issues.