Activating Red Hat Satellite Server certificate results in "SYNC ERROR: attempting to run more than one instance of satellite-sync. Exiting."

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Error message when activating satellite certificate:
Executing: '/usr/bin/satellite-sync --list-channels --ca-cert /usr/share/rhn/RHNS-CA-CERT' 
 
Population of the Channel Family permissions failed, 
Return value: 1 
Standard-out: 
 
Standard-error: SYNC ERROR: attempting to run more than one instance of satellite-sync, Exiting,
 
ERROR: Population of the Channel Family permissions failed,

Environment

  • Red Hat Network Satellite
  • rhn-satellite-activate

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