Consolidated Troubleshooting Article for Red Hat Satellite 6.x Provisioning related Issues
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DHCP-related Issues
- Provisioning a host from Satellite server fails with
Disabling all modules in the group ['dhcp_isc', 'dhcp'] due to a failure in one of them: Unable to add subnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/255.255.255.0 - ERF12-6899 [ProxyAPI::ProxyException]: Unable to set DHCP entry ([RestClient::BadRequest]: 400 Bad Request) for proxy
- Direct iPXE provisioning from Satellite 6.10 server configured with DHCP service fails with 'failed to fetch kickstart from http://satellite.example.com:8000/' error
- iPXE Provisioning of a host fails with DHCP reporting 'no free leases' on Red Hat Satellite 6.10
- Unable to do provisioning with multiple subnet failing with error "PXE-E51: No DHCP or proxyDHCP offers were received."
- Troubleshooting "ERF12-6899 [ProxyAPI::ProxyException]: Unable to set DHCP entry ([RestClient::BadRequest]: 400 Bad Request)" error observed when provisioning a host from Red Hat Satellite 6.
- Red Hat Satellite 6 fails to auto suggest IP address from DHCP range
- Red Hat Satellite provisioning fails when using UEFI boot on external DHCP.
- Provisioning fails with "Unable to set DHCP entry ([RestClient::BadRequest]: 400 Bad Request)", after upgrading to Red Hat Satellite 6.6.
- DHCP error while provisioning host from Satellite server Error ERF12-6899 [ProxyAPI::ProxyException]: Unable to set DHCP entry [RestClient::ResourceNotFound] 404 Resource Not Found
- ERF12-6899 [ProxyAPI::ProxyException]: Unable to set DHCP entry ([RestClient::BadRequest]: 400 Bad Request) for proxy
TFTP-related Issues
- [Satellite 6] TFTP files are missing in '/var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg'.
- TFTP fails when provisioning systems using Satellite
Full Host Image-related Issues
- Unable to generate Full Host Image after upgrading the operating system of Red Hat Satellite 6.16 to RHEL 9
- Cannot build a RHEL 8.3 system from Satellite using Full Host Image or Discovery on Red Hat Satellite 6
Other Issues
- Provisioning RHEL10.1 Host from Satellite fails on "dnf install" error
- The Foreman Discovery ISO provided with Red Hat Satellite 6.17 displays the error "no implicit conversion of nil into String" just after selecting the network interface
- Red Hat Satellite 6: After RHEL 9 host provisioning, syntax issue found in chrony.conf file when defining multiple NTP servers in a "Global parameter"
- Provisioning Fails with ERF42-6371 and HTTP 409 Conflict in VMware Image-based Provisioning Templates on Red Hat Satellite 6
- Boot issues encountered on RHEL 8.10 provisioned by Satellite 6.15 server
- Deployment of RHEL 9.0 fails from Red Hat Satellite with error "Service org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Storage has failed to start"
- When provisioning a host via a Red Hat Satellite server integrated with IdM, the name of the hostgroup used for provisioning is automatically taken as the value for 'userclass' in IdM
- Chainloading does not work on mirrored EFI partitions (w/mdadm) when provisioning a system via Red Hat Satellite 6.x
- Provisioning with Red Hat Satellite 6 fails with: Failed to run Satellite Provisioning script
- Provisioning a host using generic image fails with error Failed to chainload from any network interface in Red Hat Satellite 6
- Provisioning or updating a host in Red Hat Satellite 6 with non-admin user fails with : {"message": "resource have no errors"}, "msg": "Error while performing update on hosts: 500 Server Error: Internal Server Error for url: https://sat.redhat.com/api/
- VM provisioning on Red Hat Satellite server fails with an error, Failed to attach ISO image to CDROM
- Post upgrade to Red Hat Satellite 6.10, provisioning fails with exception:"Could not find virtual machine network interface matching
" - Host group does not inherit content view and lifecycle environment for the discovered host in Red Hat Satellite 6
- [Satellite 6] Provisioning fails with error "curl: (6) Could not resolve host: satellite.example.com: Unknown error"
- Registering/provisioning a Content Host to/from an external capsule shows "Unable to verify server's identity: sslv3 alert bad certificate error"
- This content is not included.While provisioning a host from Satellite/Capsule server hitting the error "curl: (6) Could not resolve host: satellite6.example.com: Unknown error"
- Why does provisioning fail after upgrading to Red Hat Satellite 6.3?
- PXE booting the Content Host via Satellite Server fails with the error - yum.Errors.RepoError: SQLite objects created in a thread can only be used in that same thread
- Which BaseOS Kickstart repository should be enabled on Red Hat Satellite 6 to provision RHEL8 machines?
- Provisioning hosts using Red Hat Satellite 6 Capsule Server fails when download policy for kickstart repos are set to On Demand
- [Satellite 6] Provisioning through Satellite fails with 'Warning: anaconda: failed to fetch kickstart from https://satellite.example.com:9090/unattended/provision?token=XXXXXX'
- [Satellite 6] Provisioning through Satellite fails with 'Warning: anaconda: failed to fetch kickstart from http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx'
- Warning: Anaconda failed to fetch Kickstart file from the Server http://satellite.example.com/unattend-70b-a01a-3es40234ed50
- Creating a host using REST API on Red Hat Satellite 6 fails with error Medium cannot be blank.
- UEFI-based Network Install Fails with error "not enough free space on disks"
- RHEL-8.3 install medium not available even if synced
- Unable to select OS when creating a host after changing location
- Installation Media do not behave as expected with inherited Host Group in Red Hat Satellite 6
- Installing a system over PXE fails with "Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout" when VLAN tagging is configured for the boot interface
- [Satellite 6] - MAC address of host is changed making provisioning fail
- Failed to retrieve provision template (for client server)
- [Satellite 6] Discovered client install fails with error: 'dracut-initqueue[XXX]: RTNETLINK answers: Network is unreachable'
- Kickstart on RHEL 7.3 fails with "/sbin/dmsquash-live-root: line 273: write error: No space left on device"
- System registration to Red Hat Satellite 6 fails while provisioning system using third party provisioning tool via Puppet.
- [Satellite6] How to set the right subscription for the provisioned VM Host when the Hypervisor has 2 Host-based subscription attached?
- Seeing temporary subscription attached on the newly build machine when using virt-who in Red Hat Satellite provisioning
- Satellite 6 VMware template provisioning sets standard port group instead of distributed port group
- [Satellite6] Provisioning a new VM based upon a template in VMware results in error "globalIPSettings are required when using Customization Spec"
- Vcreate command not found while iPXE chain boot from Red Hat Satellite 6.3.
- Provisioning a new host fails with error "NoMethodError: undefined method `sub' for nil:NilClass" in Red Hat Satellite 6.5
- [Satellite 6] Provisioning a new host fails with "undefined method `path' for nil:NilClass" error
- Provisioning a RHEL 8 host with Satellite fails on VMware vSphere 6.5
- Provisioning token is blank after creating a host on Satellite 6
How To
- How to use PXE provisioning with multiple subnets in Red Hat Satellite 6?
- How to configure custom partition table on Red Hat Satellite 6 to include hostname in volume group
- How to kickstart a system with a dynamic partition layout on Red Hat Satellite 6
- How to override a parameter with another parameter in a Satellite Provisioning Template regardless of default precedence?
- How to provision systems with on premise satellite to aws with capsule using cloud-init
Q & A
- [RFE] Red Hat Satellite provisioning workflow with netboot ISO
- What user permissions/roles are required for the VMware vCenter user account to provision from Satellite 6.x?
Useful Information
- Supported architectures and kickstart scenarios in Satellite 6
- Satellite 6 Provisioning Basics
- What log files should I gather to troubleshoot a kickstart or manual installation issue with Anaconda?
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