[Satellite 6.10] Repository sync ends in warning with HTTP 400 error and Response body: {"sync_policy":["Unexpected field"]}

Solution Verified - Updated

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6.10

Issue

After updating packages on Satellite server via the satellite-maintain packages update command, all repository sync tasks fail with HTTP 400 error. For each of the repository sync tasks, the 6: Actions::Pulp3::Repository::Sync subtask is skipped with the following error reported:

PulpRpmClient::ApiError

Error message: the server returns an error HTTP status code: 400 Response headers: {"Date"=>"Tue, 15 Mar 2022 10:16:06 GMT", "Server"=>"gunicorn", "Content-Type"=>"application/json", "Vary"=>"Accept,Cookie", "Allow"=>"POST, OPTIONS", "X-Frame-Options"=>"SAMEORIGIN", "Content-Length"=>"36", "Correlation-ID"=>"2f436ec3-7755-4049-8527-ade7b25d1197", "Access-Control-Expose-Headers"=>"Correlation-ID", "Via"=>"1.1 satellite.example.com", "Connection"=>"close"} Response body: {"sync_policy":["Unexpected field"]}

Resolution

Reboot the Satellite server.

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

Root Cause

A new kernel was installed as part of the update, and the Satellite server needs to be rebooted after the kernel update.

Diagnostic Steps

  • Confirm that the Download Policy of the affected repository is not blank:
# hammer repository info --name=<repository_name> --product=<product_name> --organization=<organization_name> --fields="Download Policy"
Download Policy: on_demand
  • Check /var/log/yum.log to confirm that the kernel has been updated:
Mar 09 08:05:20 Installed: kernel-3.10.0-1160.59.1.el7.x86_64
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