Red Hat Satellite 6 upgrade fails with Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Function Call, Lookup of key 'lookup_options' failed

Environment

• Red Hat Satellite 6

Issue

• Upgrading Red Hat Satellite Server fails with the following error message:

  [ERROR 2020-01-01T12:00:00 main]  Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Function Call, Lookup of key 'lookup_options' failed: Unable to parse (/tmp/kafo_hiera20200613-12345-1d89abc/data/custom.yaml): mapping values are not allowed in this context at line 35 column 29 (file: /usr/share/gems/gems/kafo-2.1.0/modules/kafo_configure/manifests/init.pp, line: 14, column: 3) on node satellite.example.com.
  

Resolution

• Remove/Comment out the following line: =================Memory Tuning========================== from /etc/foreman-installer/custom-hiera.yaml file and re-run the upgrade. The custom-hiera.yaml file should look like as follows:

  mongodb::server::config_data:
     storage.wiredTiger.engineConfig.cacheSizeGB: 4
  

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

Diagnostic Steps

• The following errors were observed in /var/log/foreman-installer/satellite.log on the Red Hat Satellite server.

  [ WARN 2020-06-13T09:26:39 main]  The function 'hiera_include' is deprecated in favor of using 'lookup'. See https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/5.5/reference/deprecated_language.html\n   (file & line not available)
  [ WARN 2020-06-13T09:26:39 main]  /tmp/kafo_hiera20200613-12345-1d89abc/hiera.conf: Use of 'hiera.yaml' version 3 is deprecated. It should be converted to version 5
  [ WARN 2020-06-13T09:26:39 main]    (file: /tmp/kafo_hiera20200613-12345-1d89abc/hiera.conf)
  [ERROR 2020-06-13T09:26:39 main]  Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Function Call, Lookup of key 'lookup_options' failed: Unable to parse (/tmp/kafo_hiera20200613-12345-1d89abc/data/custom.yaml): mapping values are not allowed in this context at line 35 column 29 (file: /usr/share/gems/gems/kafo-2.1.0/modules/kafo_configure/manifests/init.pp, line: 14, column: 3) on node satellite.example.com
  [ERROR 2020-06-13T09:26:39 main] /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/functions/yaml_data.rb:36:in `rescue in block in yaml_data'
  [ERROR 2020-06-13T09:26:39 main] /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/functions/yaml_data.rb:23:in `block in yaml_data'
  [ERROR 2020-06-13T09:26:39 main] /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/puppet/pops/lookup/context.rb:52:in `cached_file_data'
  

• Following entries were present in in /etc/foreman-installer/custom-hiera.yaml file on the Red Hat Satellite server.

  =================Memory Tuning==========================
  mongodb::server::config_data:
     storage.wiredTiger.engineConfig.cacheSizeGB: 4
  

• Make a note of line, column number observed in error trace (For example: (file: /usr/share/gems/gems/kafo-2.1.0/modules/kafo_configure/manifests/init.pp, line: 14, column: 3)). Look for the entries made on line: 14, column: 3 in /etc/foreman-installer/custom-hiera.yaml file.

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