Does Satellite 6 support hostname in capital letters?

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Issue

  • On a system with some capital letters in the hostname, httpd does not start and katello-installer fails with the following messages:
# katello-installer 
 /Stage[main]/Puppet::Server::Config/Exec[puppet_server_config-generate_ca_cert]: Failed to call refresh: /usr/bin/puppet cert --generate Example.satellite.com returned 24 instead of one of [0]
 /Stage[main]/Puppet::Server::Config/Exec[puppet_server_config-generate_ca_cert]: /usr/bin/puppet cert --generate Example.satellite.com returned 24 instead of one of [0]
 Could not start Service[httpd]: Execution of '/usr/share/katello-installer/modules/service_wait/bin/service-wait httpd start' returned 1: Starting httpd: [FAILED]
 /Stage[main]/Apache::Service/Service[httpd]/ensure: change from stopped to running failed: Could not start Service[httpd]: Execution of '/usr/share/katello-installer/modules/service_wait/bin/service-wait httpd start' returned 1: Starting httpd: [FAILED]
 /Stage[main]/Foreman::Database/Foreman::Rake[db:seed]/Exec[foreman-rake-db:seed]: Failed to call refresh: /usr/sbin/foreman-rake db:seed returned 1 instead of one of [0]
 /Stage[main]/Foreman::Database/Foreman::Rake[db:seed]/Exec[foreman-rake-db:seed]: /usr/sbin/foreman-rake db:seed returned 1 instead of one of [0]
Installing             Done                                               [100%] [...........................................................]
  Something went wrong! Check the log for ERROR-level output
  The full log is at /var/log/katello-installer/katello-installer.log

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6.0 Beta
  • Red Hat Satellite 6.0

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