[Satellite 6.2] While using custom ssl certs, the satellite-installer command fails with error "`puppet_parse': invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 (ArgumentError)"

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Issue

  • While using custom ssl certs, the satellite-installer command fails with below error
#  satellite-installer  --scenario satellite  --certs-server-cert /root/sat_cert/server.crt  --certs-server-cert-req /root/sat_cert/satellite_cert_csr.pem  --certs-server-key /root/sat_cert/satellite_cert_key.pem  --certs-server-ca-cert /root/sat_cert/server-ca.pem  --certs-update-server --certs-update-server-ca


Marking certificate /root/ssl-build/satellite.example.com/satellite.example.com-apache for update
Marking certificate /root/ssl-build/satellite.example.com/satellite.example.com-foreman-proxy for update
Marking certificate /root/ssl-build/katello-server-ca for update
Installing             Info: Class[Certs::Katello]: Scheduling refresh of [99%] [........................................................................................................................... ]/usr/share/gems/gems/kafo-0.7.6.1/lib/kafo/kafo_configure.rb:430:in `puppet_parse': invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 (ArgumentError)
        from /usr/share/gems/gems/kafo-0.7.6.1/lib/kafo/kafo_configure.rb:399:in `block (2 levels) in run_installation'
        from /usr/share/gems/gems/kafo-0.7.6.1/lib/kafo/kafo_configure.rb:398:in `each'
        from /usr/share/gems/gems/kafo-0.7.6.1/lib/kafo/kafo_configure.rb:398:in `block in run_installation'
        from /usr/share/gems/gems/kafo-0.7.6.1/lib/kafo/kafo_configure.rb:396:in `spawn'
        from /usr/share/gems/gems/kafo-0.7.6.1/lib/kafo/kafo_configure.rb:396:in `run_installation'
        from /usr/share/gems/gems/kafo-0.7.6.1/lib/kafo/kafo_configure.rb:141:in `execute'
        from /usr/share/gems/gems/clamp-0.6.2/lib/clamp/command.rb:67:in `run'
        from /usr/share/gems/gems/clamp-0.6.2/lib/clamp/command.rb:125:in `run'
        from /usr/share/gems/gems/kafo-0.7.6.1/lib/kafo/kafo_configure.rb:148:in `run'
        from /usr/sbin/satellite-installer:12:in `<main>'

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite v 6.2
  • Custom ssl certificates

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