Red Hat Satellite upgrade to 6.8 fails with 'foreman-maintain packages is-locked --assumeyes failed! Check the output for error!'

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Issue

  • Red Hat Satellite upgrade to 6.8 fails with below error in /var/log/foreman-installer/satellite.log:
[ INFO 2021-07-30T17:38:26 main] All hooks in group post finished
[DEBUG 2021-07-30T17:38:26 main] Exit with status code: 2 (signal was 2)
[ERROR 2021-07-30T17:38:26 main] Errors encountered during run:
[ERROR 2021-07-30T17:38:26 main] foreman-maintain packages is-locked --assumeyes failed! Check the output for error!                 <====== 
[DEBUG 2021-07-30T17:38:26 main] Cleaning /tmp/kafo_installation20210730-34037-10acbfu

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6.8

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