Red Hat Satellite 6 upgrade fails with Could not prefetch yumrepo provider 'inifile'

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Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6

Issue

  • Red Hat Satellite upgrade fails with the below error.

    Could not prefetch yumrepo provider 'inifile': Section "packages-microsoft-com-prod" is already defined, cannot redefine (file: /etc/yum.repos.d/microsoft-prod.repo)

Resolution

  • Disable and/or remove all third-party and EPEL repositories on the Satellite Server and perform satellite upgrade.

    # mv /etc/yum.repos.d/epel* /tmp
# mv /etc/yum.repos.d/microsoft* /tmp

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.

Root Cause

  • Presence of customized or other media repositories.
  • The community EPEL repository contains packages which duplicate functionality found in Satellite packages but the versions and packaging setup can differ. This can potentially result in package updates on the Satellite Server host failing due to dependency issues. Alternately, updates which don't have apparent issue may result in Satellite provided packages being replaced, resulting in potential malfunction or loss of the Satellite services.

Diagnostic Steps

  • The trace of the error message is captured in /var/log/foreman-installer/satellite.log.

    2023-10-13 00:53:45 [DEBUG ] [configure] Prefetching inifile resources for yumrepo
2023-10-13 00:53:45 [ERROR ] [configure] Could not prefetch yumrepo provider 'inifile': Section "packages-microsoft-com-prod" is already defined, cannot redefine (file: /etc/yum.repos.d/microsoft-prod.repo)
2023-10-13 00:53:45 [DEBUG ] [configure] /Stage[main]/Foreman_proxy::Plugin::Ansible::Runner/Yumrepo[ansible-runner]: Starting to evaluate the resource (498 of 1579)
2023-10-13 00:53:45 [DEBUG ] [configure] /Stage[main]/Foreman_proxy::Plugin::Ansible::Runner/Yumrepo[ansible-runner]: Skipping because provider prefetch failed
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