Leapp upgrade utility fails on Red Hat Satellite 6.11 with error Insufficient memory for tuning size

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Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6.11

Issue

  • Running leapp upgrade utility on Red Hat Satellite 6.11 to upgrade Operating System from RHEL 7 to RHEL 8 fails due to insufficient resources with below error:

    2022-04-01 16:27:54.490 DEBUG    PID: 1632 leapp.workflow.FirstBoot.satellite_upgrader: Insufficient memory for tuning size
2022-04-01 16:27:54.493 DEBUG    PID: 1632 leapp.workflow.FirstBoot.satellite_upgrader: Tuning profile 'default' requires at least 8 GB of memory and 1 CPU cores
2022-04-01 16:27:54.494 DEBUG    PID: 1632 leapp.workflow.FirstBoot.satellite_upgrader: Command ['foreman-installer'] failed with exit code 103.
2022-04-01 16:27:54.496 DEBUG    PID: 1632 leapp.workflow.FirstBoot.satellite_upgrader: External command has finished: ['foreman-installer']
2022-04-01 16:27:54.497 ERROR    PID: 1632 leapp.workflow.FirstBoot.satellite_upgrader: Could not run the installer, please inspect the logs in /var/log/foreman-installer!

Resolution

  • As a workaround of This content is not included.Bug 2071553, run # foreman-installer --disable-system-checks after the RHEL8 system has booted and logs indicate the satellite-installer has not run correctly.

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

Root Cause

Diagnostic Steps

  • Below errors are observed in /var/log/leapp/leapp-upgrade.log on Satellite machine.

    2022-04-01 16:27:45.297 INFO     PID: 1198 leapp.workflow.FirstBoot: Executing actor satellite_upgrader 
2022-04-01 16:27:45.320 DEBUG    PID: 1632 leapp.workflow.FirstBoot.satellite_upgrader: External command has started: ['foreman-installer']
2022-04-01 16:27:46.711 DEBUG    PID: 1632 leapp.workflow.FirstBoot.satellite_upgrader: 2022-04-01 16:27:46 [NOTICE] [root] Loading installer configuration. This will take some time.
2022-04-01 16:27:50.597 DEBUG    PID: 1632 leapp.workflow.FirstBoot.satellite_upgrader: 2022-04-01 16:27:50 [NOTICE] [root] Running installer with log based terminal output at level NOTICE.
2022-04-01 16:27:50.598 DEBUG    PID: 1632 leapp.workflow.FirstBoot.satellite_upgrader: 2022-04-01 16:27:50 [NOTICE] [root] Use -l to set the terminal output log level to ERROR, WARN, NOTICE, INFO, or DEBUG. See --full-help for definitions.
2022-04-01 16:27:54.490 DEBUG    PID: 1632 leapp.workflow.FirstBoot.satellite_upgrader: Insufficient memory for tuning size
2022-04-01 16:27:54.493 DEBUG    PID: 1632 leapp.workflow.FirstBoot.satellite_upgrader: Tuning profile 'default' requires at least 8 GB of memory and 1 CPU cores
2022-04-01 16:27:54.494 DEBUG    PID: 1632 leapp.workflow.FirstBoot.satellite_upgrader: Command ['foreman-installer'] failed with exit code 103.
2022-04-01 16:27:54.496 DEBUG    PID: 1632 leapp.workflow.FirstBoot.satellite_upgrader: External command has finished: ['foreman-installer']
2022-04-01 16:27:54.497 ERROR    PID: 1632 leapp.workflow.FirstBoot.satellite_upgrader: Could not run the installer, please inspect the logs in /var/log/foreman-installer!
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