Content view promotion fails with error "Cannot promote environment out of sequence. Use force to bypass restriction" on Red Hat Satellite 6.

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Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6.2.z.

Issue

  • Unable to promote content view to the next environment.
  • Content view promotion fails with the error message:
# hammer content-view version promote --organization-id 3 --content-view CVNAME --version 4.0 --to-lifecycle-environment Library
Could not promote the content view:
  Cannot promote environment out of sequence. Use force to bypass restriction.

Resolution

  • Use --force option with hammer command to complete the content view promotion.
# hammer content-view version promote --content-view CVNAME --organization-id 1 --version 4.0 --to-lifecycle-environment Library --force

Root Cause

  • Only one lifecycle environment is present on Satellite i.e. Library.
  • Content view is already promoted in Library lifecycle environment. Promoting the content view again in the same lifecycle environment fails.

Diagnostic Steps

  • On Satellite CLI, check for number of lifecycle environments present:
# hammer lifecycle-environment list --organization-id 1
[Foreman] Password for admin: 
---|---------|------
ID | NAME    | PRIOR
---|---------|------
1  | Library |      
---|---------|------
  • From the above output, it is proved that there is only one lifecycle environment present.

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