Error in promoting the content view in Red Hat Satellite 6.x

Environment

• Red Hat Satellite 6.x

Issue

• The content view promotion throws below error

Actions::Pulp::Repository::DistributorPublish

PLP0000: Failed to link metadata. See errors for more details

Resolution

• Do regenerate the metadata for the affected pulp id and try to resume the task.
• The set of commands need to perform as follows on Satellite terminal :

# PULP_PASS=$(cat /etc/pulp/server.conf  | grep ^default_password | awk '{print $2}')

# b="1-Centos-6-full-development-AFRL_DSRC-CentOS-6_X86_64-updates_x86_64"

# curl -u admin:$PULP_PASS -X POST -k -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://localhost/pulp/api/v2/repositories/${b}/actions/publish/ -d "{\"id\":\"${b}\",\"override_config\":{\"force_full\":true}}"

• The above POST queries will generate a pulp task id.
• Use that pulp task id to check the task status as these above tasks will not show up in the Satellite webui.
• Use below command for this:

# curl -u admin:$PULP_PASS -X GET -k -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://localhost/pulp/api/v2/tasks/6f7edc32-264d-41a9-b74a-6731b0e2125d/ | python -m json.tool | grep -i state


(Replace 6f7edc32-264d-41a9-b74a-6731b0e2125d by the task id)

• Note: Please do replace the repository name as per your error details in the tasks export report.

 For Example : 1-Centos-6-full-development-ABCD_ABCD-CentOS-6_X86_64-updates_x86_64  

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

Root Cause

• Issue with the repository metadata will result into the above mentioned error.
• The below error details can be observed in the tasks details.

Task: Actions::Pulp::Repository::DistributorPublish
Exception:

Katello::Errors::PulpError: PLP0000: Failed to link metadata.  See errors for more details.

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