Error: YUM fails with following Error: M2Crypto.SSL.SSLError: sslv3 alert handshake failure

Solution:

1. Move the Repo files to other Location.

mv /etc/yum.repos.d/* /tmp/

2. Clear the yum transaction.

rm -rf /var/cache/yum/*

3. Clean all repos.

yum clean all

4. Now create the repo files. For Creating EPEL repo procedure, Please click Here.

yum repolist