Satellite 6.16 failed to leapp upgrade to RHEL9, "systemd[1]: leapp_resume.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT"

Environment

• Red Hat Satellite 6.16
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10
  • leapp-upgrade-el8toel9

Issue

• Red Hat Satellite 6.16 leapp upgrade to RHEL9 fails with below error:

  sat616 leapp3[3022]: Error: Phase firstboot.before does not exist in the workflow
  sat616 systemd[1]: leapp_resume.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT
  

Resolution

WORKAROUND

• Edit /usr/share/leapp-repository/repositories/system_upgrade/common/actors/createresumeservice/files/leapp_resume.service in order to:

  Add the following in the [Unit] section:

  After=selinux-autorelabel.service     <=========
  

  change the DefaultDependencies to yes (the default):

  DefaultDependencies=yes  <=========
  

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

• This is hitting the RHEL bug that is still going on:
  This content is not included.Services are executed during the selinux-autorelabel

Diagnostic Steps

• Commands needed to allow the leapp process of RHEL8/Satellite 6.16 to RHEL9/Satellite 6.16 to continue:

  • Set crypto-policies to default, Leapp upgrade fails with error message "sslv3 alert handshake failure" while fetching CDN repos.

    # update-crypto-policies --set DEFAULT
    

  • Firewalld Configuration AllowZoneDrifting Is Unsupported, Changes in firewalld related to Zone Drifting

    # sed -i s/^AllowZoneDrifting=.*/AllowZoneDrifting=no/ /etc/firewalld/firewalld.conf
    

  • Up per-process file descriptor limit (this is a temporary change) Why does leapp preupgrade fail with sqlite3.OperationalError: unable to open database file traceback error ?

    # ulimit -n 16384
    

• To avoid the error mentioned in below KBase article, apply the latest updates of RHEL8 OS;
  Leapp upgrade RHEL8.10 to RHEL9 failed with error, PID: 109803 leapp.workflow.Download.dnf_package_download: file /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/shim.efi from install of shim-x64-15.8-4.el9_3.x86_64 conflicts with file from package shim-ia32-15.8-4.el8_9.x86_64

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