Consolidated Troubleshooting Article for Red Hat Satellite 6.x Content View Issues

Issues Publishing Content Views

• Publishing Content View fails with {'base_path': [ErrorDetail(string='This field must be unique.', code='unique')]} error in Red Hat Satellite 6
• Incremental update of a Content View takes too long in Satellite 6
• Content-view with Solve Dependency enabled takes too long to publish in Red Hat Satellite
• Content View publish failed with error "could not obtain a connection from the pool within 5.000 seconds (waited 5.001 seconds)" in Red Hat Satellite Server
• Post upgrading to Red Hat Satellite 6.10+, publishing of Content Views and Composite Content Views fails with a 'Error: PulpRpmClient::ApiError' error
• Publishing a new Content View version fails inside lookup_distributor_id method
• Publishing Content View increasing disk space utilization on Red Hat Satellite 6
• Content view publish fails with error PLP0000: /var/lib/pulp/published/yum/http/repos/xxx/os exists, but should be a symlink. Cannot find published directory, in Red Hat Satellite 6.
• Can't publish new version of the content view.
• [Satellite6] removing or publishing a content view version fails on "PulpRpmClient::ApiError Error message: the server returns an error HTTP status code: 400 Response headers"
• Publishing CV with depsolving enabled on RHEL8 BaseOS repo and including all except new errata fails on package dependencies
• Repository sync or Content-view publish task fails with error 'PulpRpmClient::ApiError: Error message: the server returns an error' in Red Hat Satellite 6.10
• After upgrading to Red Hat Satellite 6.10, Content View publishing fails with error "404 not found"
• Content view publish task fails with 'RestClient::InternalServerError: 500 Internal Server Error'
• Content View Publish fails with "400 Bad Request"
• [Satellite6] Publishing a content view fails with "Validation failed: Puppet environment can't be blank" error
• [Satellite 6] Publishing new version of content view fails with error "ProxyAPI::ProxyException: ERF12-4115 [ProxyAPI::ProxyException]"
• Content view publish task fails with errors : description: size must be between 0 and 255 , Environment with id XXX could not be found.
• [Satellite 6] Task to publish new version of content view stuck on 'waiting for Pulp to finish the task' and cannot be deleted
• [Satellite 6.x] Incremental update of a content-view does not auto-publish the composite content-view (CCV)
• Content View Publish Fails with Undefined Method NilClass
• Error in promoting the content view in Red Hat Satellite 6.x
• Red Hat Satellite 6 failed to publish content view throwing error PG::UniqueViolation: ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "index_katello_docker_meta_tags_on_schema1_id_and_schema2_id" DETAIL: Key (schema1_id, schema2_id)
• Force Yum Metadata Regeneration is missing while publishing the Content View on Red Hat Satellite 6.5.
• Publishing a new version of a Content View in Red Hat Satellite 6 fails with an error duplicate key value violates unique constraint "core_repositorycontent_repository_id_content_id_df902e11_uniq"
• Content view publish task fails with an error Unable to find content with the ID "XXXX"
• Publishing new version of a content-view faills with a Cannot create repository version. More than one rpm.package content with the duplicate values for name, epoch, version, release, arch, location_href. error

Issues Exporting Content Views

• Content View export in Red Hat Satellite 6 fails with error undefined method `first' for nil:NilClass
• Satellite content view import fails with error Unable to import in to Content View specified in the metadata

Issues Importing Content Views

• Getting '{"publication":["Invalid hyperlink - Object does not exist."]}' error when publishing a content-view on connected Satellite or when importing contents to a disconnected Satellite
• Importing a content to Satellite raises "This field must be unique." error with 400 error code
• In Disconnected Satellite importing Content Views makes it empty.
• [Satellite 6] Content View import fails with 'no library repository found for Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_7_Server_-_Extras_RPMs_x86_64'
• Error to import the content view exported on the Satellite.
• Importing a content view from a connected Red Hat Satellite 6.10 into a disconnected Red Hat Satellite 6.10 server fails with "Could not import the archive.: undefined method `label' for nil:NilClass" error

Issues with Content View Filters

• Content view with filter do not resolve dependencies from custom repositories even if the "Solve Dependency" is enabled in Red Hat Satellite 6
• Exclude filter of puppet-agent RPM leaves one version of the RMP in the filtered content in Satellite6
• Failing to install ruby or nginx package from RHEL9 AppStream to a Satellite 6 client
• Content view filter is excluding Modules and Packages when published after upgrading the Red Hat Satellite from 6.6 to 6.7 version.
• RHEL 8 modular packages cannot be filtered with Content View filters on Red Hat Satellite 6.
• Content view errata filters are partially ignored with dependency solving and RHEL 8 content
• Satellite6 client in Content View with filters complain about perl module

Issues with Packages / Errata

• Latest packages are unavailable over the host registered to Red Hat Satellite 6
• Capsule content show less number of packages or ERRATA counts then the Contents View for the same Life-cycle Environments in Red Hat Satellite.
• Red Hat Capsule package count does not match with the package count of content views added to the Capsule server
• Unable to access Source RPMs (SRPM) in Satellite 6 Content Views

Other Content View Issues

• A blank content-view page is displayed in Satellite web UI when using non-English language
• [Satellite6] After changing Content View of a Host and deleting the old one, candlepin raises 410 Gone error
• Unable to add repositories to the content view using a hammer on Red Hat Satellite 6.
• [Satellite6] Synchronizing a Content View with long named repo to a Capsule fails
• Users are unable to delete Content view versions from Satellite 6.
• Applying an applicable errata from the Red Satellite 6 WebUI to the hosts that are associated with the content view does not create an incremental version of the content view.

How To

• How to create composite content view of Composite content view
• How to delete a Content View which is added in a Composite Content View in Satellite?
• How to search for composite content views that contain a specific content view in Satellite?
• How to promote a content view with API?
• How to automate content view publish and promote in Red Hat Satellite 6?
• How to identify content-view(s) which include a specific repository on Red Hat Satellite 6?
• How to remove old content view versions in Red Hat Satellite 6 using CLI/hammer?
• How to add an errata into an existing content view
• How to forcefully regenerate metadata of a content view or repository on Red Hat Satellite 6?
• [Satellite 6.x] How to configure content views to provide content for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.x systems with SAP HANA / SAP NetWeaver installed?
• How to identify unused Content Views in Satellite6?
• How to remove a Content View from a Lifecycle Environment in Red Hat Satellite 6
• How to change Life Cycle Environment and Content Views at the same time for a host using hammer CLI on Red Hat Satellite 6.
• How to find out content-views association using postgres database queries in the Red Hat Satellite?
• How to use option Always use latest provided by Red Hat Satellite 6 with hammer command line while adding a content view in composite content view.
• Populating Content on Disconnected Satellite with Content Views
• Populating Content on Disconnected Satellite with Repositories

Q & A

• Can content view be published/promoted parallelly in Red Hat Satellite 6?
• [Satellite 6] When to publish Red Hat Satellite Content View Versions?