Red Hat Satellite Capsule upgrade fails on finding capsule-certs.tar file

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Upgrading or running the installer on a Red Hat Satellite Capsule fails with the following traceback:
[root@capsule ~]# satellite-installer    # optionally followed by any arguments, i.e. --scenario capsule --upgrade -v
..
[ INFO 2020-06-10T13:16:30 verbose] Executing hooks in group pre_validations
The certs tar file generated by the server is not present at /root/certs.tar, exiting.
[ERROR 2020-06-10T13:16:30 verbose] The certs tar file generated by the server is not present at /root/certs.tar, exiting.
[ INFO 2020-06-10T13:16:30 verbose] Installer finished in 1.930692308 seconds

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6
  • Red Hat Satellite Capsule

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