Red Hat Satellite 6 Installation Failure Due to Insufficient Disk Space During PostgreSQL Database Setup

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Issue

  • Red Hat Satellite 6 Installer Failed Due to PostgreSQL Initdb Error - No space left on device.

    2023-09-25 20:38:43 [DEBUG ] [root] Running installer with args [["--scenario", "satellite", "--foreman-initial-organization", "RedHat", "--foreman-initial-location", "pune", "--foreman-initial-admin-username", "admin", "--foreman-initial-admin-password", "********"]]
    2023-09-25 20:38:43 [NOTICE] [root] Running installer with log based terminal output at level NOTICE.
    2023-09-25 20:39:16 [ERROR ] [configure] '/usr/bin/initdb --pgdata '/var/lib/pgsql/data'' returned 1 instead of one of [0]
    2023-09-25 20:39:16 [ERROR ] [configure] /Stage[main]/Postgresql::Server::Initdb/Exec[postgresql_initdb]/returns: change from 'notrun' to ['0'] failed: '/usr/bin/initdb --pgdata '/var/lib/pgsql/data'' returned 1 instead of one of [0]
    2023-09-25 20:39:42 [DEBUG ] [root] Exit with status code: 6 (signal was 6)
    
  • Red Hat Satellite 6 Installer Encountered Failure: PostgreSQL Initdb Process Errors - Insufficient Disk Space.

    2023-09-25 20:39:16 [INFO  ] [configure] /Stage[main]/Postgresql::Server::Initdb/Exec[postgresql_initdb]/returns: running bootstrap script ... 2023-09-25 20:39:16.713 UTC [2605] FATAL:  could not write to file "pg_wal/xlogtemp.2605": No space left on device
    2023-09-25 20:39:16 [INFO  ] [configure] /Stage[main]/Postgresql::Server::Initdb/Exec[postgresql_initdb]/returns: child process exited with exit code 1
    2023-09-25 20:39:16 [INFO  ] [configure] /Stage[main]/Postgresql::Server::Initdb/Exec[postgresql_initdb]/returns: initdb: removing contents of data directory "/var/lib/pgsql/data"
    2023-09-25 20:39:16 [ERROR ] [configure] '/usr/bin/initdb --pgdata '/var/lib/pgsql/data'' returned 1 instead of one of [0]
    2023-09-25 20:39:16 [ERROR ] [configure] /Stage[main]/Postgresql::Server::Initdb/Exec[postgresql_initdb]/returns: change from 'notrun' to ['0'] failed: '/usr/bin/initdb --pgdata '/var/lib/pgsql/data'' returned 1 instead of one of [0]
    2023-09-25 20:39:16 [DEBUG ] [configure] /Stage[main]/Postgresql::Server::Initdb/Exec[postgresql_initdb]: Evaluated in 0.53 seconds
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6

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