Client registration with Red Hat Satellite 6.4 changes RHSM configuration incorrectly.

Solution Verified - Updated -

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6.4 and above
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Issue

  • Whenever the katello noarch rpm is installed on client, it is creating a wrong entry in /etc/rhsm/rhsm.conf.

Resolution

  • This is a known issue and currently reported to Red Hat Satellite Engineering in Bugzilla 1651189 which is now resolved in Red Hat Satellite 6.5.

  • To mitigate the issue until the bug gets resolved, the following workaround can be followed:

Workaround :-

  • Add this line to satellite registration script, after the rpm install for katello:

    # sed -i 's/n#config for on-premise management/#config for on-premise management/' /etc/rhsm/rhsm.conf

  • For more information on this bug please reach out to Red Hat Technical Support.

Root Cause

  • Whenever the katello noarch rpm is installed with the rpm mentioned below :

    # rpm -Uvh http://satellite.example.com/pub/katello-ca-consumer-latest.noarch.rpm

  • It makes the changes under the file /etc/rhsm/rhsm.conf on client which are mentioned below.

  • From this:

    # config for on-premise management

  • Changes to:

    n#config for on-premise management

Diagnostic Steps

[root@localhost tmp]# subscription-manager
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/subscription-manager", line 58, in <module>
from subscription_manager.injectioninit import init_dep_injection
File "/usr/share/rhsm/subscription_manager/injectioninit.py", line 17, in <module>
from subscription_manager.cache import ProductStatusCache, StatusCache
File "/usr/share/rhsm/subscription_manager/cache.py", line 31, in <module>
import rhsm.connection as connection
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/rhsm/connection.py", line 67, in <module>
config = initConfig()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/rhsm/config.py", line 222, in initConfig
CFG = RhsmConfigParser(config_file=DEFAULT_CONFIG_PATH)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/rhsm/config.py", line 82, in __init__
self.read(self.config_file)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/iniparse/compat.py", line 103, in read
self.data._readfp(fp)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/iniparse/ini.py", line 629, in _readfp
raise exc
ConfigParser.ParsingError: File contains parsing errors: /etc/rhsm/rhsm.conf
[line 36]: n#config for on-premise management

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