katello-installer or satellite-installer is failing because of wget not honoring timout settings

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Issue

  • During the installation of Satellite 6.1 or 6.2 the following error is reported by katello-installer
/usr/bin/wget --timeout=30 --tries=40 --wait=20 --retry-connrefused -qO- http://localhost:8080/candlepin/admin/init >/var/log/candlepin/cpinit.log 2>&1 && touch /var/lib/candlepin/cpinit_done returned 4 instead of one of [0]
/Stage[main]/Candlepin::Service/Exec[cpinit]/returns: change from notrun to 0 failed: /usr/bin/wget --timeout=30 --tries=40 --wait=20 --retry-connrefused -qO- http://localhost:8080/candlepin/admin/init >/var/log/candlepin/cpinit.log 2>&1 && touch /var/lib/candlepin/cpinit_done returned 4 instead of one of [0]
/Stage[main]/Foreman_proxy::Register/Foreman_smartproxy[satellite6.server.example.com]: Failed to call refresh: Could not load data from https://satellite6.server.example.com
/Stage[main]/Foreman_proxy::Register/Foreman_smartproxy[satellite6.server.example.com]: Could not load data from https://satellite6.server.example.com

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Satellite 6.1
  • Red Hat Satellite 6.2

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