{"id":2585,"date":"2012-07-24T06:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T04:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/red-hat-61-unable-to-read-group-information-from-repositories-1\/"},"modified":"2012-07-24T06:47:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T04:47:00","slug":"red-hat-61-unable-to-read-group-information-from-repositories-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/red-hat-61-unable-to-read-group-information-from-repositories-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Hat 6.1: unable to read group information from repositories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During one of my recent missions I had the opportunity to install Red Hat 6.1 on a ESX Virtual Machine. In the installation process, I got a strange message: &#8220;unable to read group information from repositories&#8221;. If you have also encountered such a problem this posting may help you.<\/p>\n<p>While trying to install the RHEL 6.1 iso on an ESX Virtual Machine, the installation complains and displays the following pop-up after having formatted the hard drive:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Unable to read group information from repositories&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The only choices are [Exit Installer] and [Retry], so there is no way to go back and try different settings or even getting an error log without resetting and starting all over&#8230; which didn&#8217;t solve the problem anyway. In fact in my case the problem was coming from the VM CD-ROM option. Indeed the virtual CD-ROM was set in mode &#8220;Emulate IDE&#8221;. Changing this mode from &#8220;Emulate IDE&#8221; to &#8220;Passthrough&#8221;(recommended) solve the problem.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"caption\" title=\"CD Rom parameters for Red Hat installatio\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/redhatesx.jpg\" alt=\"CD Rom parameters for Red Hat installatio\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looking over the internet, several people have encountered this error. However, some of them are not running their Red Hat on a Virtual Machine. If you are one of them, please have a look on the following bug report on Red Hat: https:\/\/bugzilla.redhat.com\/show_bug.cgi?id=687956<\/p>\n<p>Hope this helps!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During one of my recent missions I had the opportunity to install Red Hat 6.1 on a ESX Virtual Machine. During the installation process I got a strange message: &#8220;unable to read group information from repositories&#8221;. 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