[Satellite 6] Discovered client install fails with error: 'dracut-initqueue[XXX]: RTNETLINK answers: Network is unreachable'

Environment

• Red Hat Satellite 6.x
• Discovery
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x , 6.x

Issue

• PXE Discovered client install fails with error:dracut-initqueue[XXX]: RTNETLINK answers: Network is unreachable.

Resolution

• Make sure Subnet created for discovered client system vlan at following path:

On Red Hat Satellite GUI:

 Infrastructure => Subnet => <Check here the subnet details>

• If not then create the Subnet for client system vlan and try to rebuild the Discovered client system.

For more KB articles/solutions related to Red Hat Satellite 6.x Provisioning Issues, please refer to the Consolidated Troubleshooting Article for Red Hat Satellite 6.x Provisioning related Issues

Root Cause

• Issue is coming due to either subnet not created for Discovered client system vlan.
• Or already created subnet has the incorrect details.

Diagnostic Steps

• Discovered client system fails with following error:

dracut-initqueue[767]: RTNETLINK answers: Network is unreachable
The requested URL returned error:500 Internal Server Error
Warning: anaconda: failed to fetch kickstart from http://satellite.lab.example.com/unattended/provision?token=some numberstatic=yes

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