3.14. Pulp Issues

This section describes known issues with the Satellite 6.1 Pulp component.
BZ 1242631: Cancellation of node sync tasks not propagated to the agent/capsule
Issue

Cancellation of node sync tasks is not propagated to the agent. As a result, the task on the parent has a state of canceled but continues to run on the agent/node. This means that Katello considers the task canceled when it was not. This prevents new tasks from running by the agent until the previous task finishes normally. This can result in a backlog of agent requests and tasks on the node.

Workaround

None at this time.

BZ 1105673: Dependency issues running pulp-puppet-module-builder on non-Satellite 6 machine
Issue

Creating puppet git repositories on other than Satellite 6 machines fails because of dependency issues and import errors.

Workaround

To use the pulp-puppet-module-builder command on a separate system from the Satellite Server, subscribe the system to a Red Hat Satellite 6 server. This provides access to the extra packages required: pulp-puppet-module-builderpython-setuptools and python-pulp-puppet-common. Enable the Red Hat Satellite 6 repositories and install the packages: 

# yum install pulp-puppet-module-builder python-setuptools python-pulp-puppet-common
BZ 1229322: database error: too much data for sort() with no index
Issue

If you try to access a large number of Content Views or Product Views the page may not display correctly, and instead display only "Loading..." The following error can occur in the production log:

This error can occur if there are too many sync result entries for mongo to sort without an index. 
database error: too much data for sort() with no index. add an index or specify a smaller limit
Workaround

This issue is being worked on upstream and a fix will be available in a future release. To work around this issue, you need to uncomment and modify the repo_sync_history option in the /etc/pulp/server.conf file as follows: 

[data_reaping]
repo_sync_history: 2
This changes the default repository synchronization history value of 60 days to two days, reducing the table size considerably. See the bugzilla comments for more detailed information.
BZ 1227920: Install applicable errata task missed reporting kernel packages
Issue

If you install an errata that includes kernel updates, the kernel and kernel-devel packages are not reported as being installed.

Workaround

To work around this issue, you can review the Content Host's package profile to confirm that the expected packages have been updated. This issue is being worked on upstream and will be addressed in a future release.