Satellite 6 sync tasks do not resume

Solution Verified - Updated -

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6.0
  • Red Hat Satellite 6.1

Issue

Sync tasks do not resume automatically. Possible reasons for tasks being stopped
- Server was rebooted while sync was in progress
- Server ran out of disk space, causing tasks to fail

Resolution

Workaround

Go to the tasks list and identify the tasks that are paused / errored

for each
- if there is another task listed as blocking it, go to that task
- if there is no task blocking it, go to the dynflow console,
and identify which sub task still thinks it is running.
- skip this sub task
- go back and resume the task
- task should now complete.

Repeat for every task.

Root Cause

This issue is being tracked in bugzilla 1218378

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