Provisioning Fails with ERF42-6371 and HTTP 409 Conflict in VMware Image-based Provisioning Templates on Red Hat Satellite 6

Environment

• Red Hat Satellite 6.18

Issue

• VMware Image-based Provisioning fails with the following error when using provisioning templates on Red Hat Satellite:

  ERF42-6371 [Satellite::Exception]: Neither disk nor partition table defined for host
  

• Additionally, when attempting to mark the host as "deployed", the following error occurs:

  ERROR 409: Conflict
  

• Changing Hostgroup of a host fails with:

  Failed to render template 'Kickstart default', error: ERF42-6371 [Foreman::Exception]: Neither disk nor partition table defined for host
  

• Modifying the host fails with:

    #  hammer host update --name hostname --comment "Test comment"
  Could not update the host:
    Failed to render template 'Kickstart default', error: ERF42-6371 [Foreman::Exception]: Neither disk nor partition table defined for host
  

• The same error occurs when trying to modify the host using Satellite GUI.

Resolution

• Red Hat Engineering team is already aware of this bug and is currently tracking the same in Red Hat public Jira This content is not included.#SAT-38859.

• To know more about the Bugzilla status please open a This content is not included.support ticket with Red Hat Technical Support Team.

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

• In case this happens for changing a hostgroup or modifying a host, make sure partition table is associated with the concerned hostgroup and the Operating System of the host.

Root Cause

• The issue is caused by Satellite incorrectly applying a validation check meant for Kickstart-based provisioning templates, which expects a partition table. Since VMware image-based provisioning does not require a partition table, Red Hat Satellite is mistakenly triggering this validation, resulting in the error.

Diagnostic Steps

• Following error is captured in /var/log/foreman/production.log, which indicates an issue with the partition table validation during image based provisioning:

  Backtrace for 'Error while rendering 'Kickstart default' template' error (Foreman::Exception): ERF42-6371 [Foreman::Exception]: Neither disk nor partition table defined for host
  

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