Host registration fails with the error: "Validation failed: Host has already been taken"

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Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6.3.1
  • Red Hat Satellite 6.2.15

Issue

Host registration to Satellite fails with:
"Validation Failed: Host has already been taken"

Alternatively, reregistrations may fail as well (with XXXX being a registration UUID):
"Consumer with id XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXX could not be found"

Resolution

This issue is currently under investigation.

Should you run into this issue, please open a ticket with Red Hat Support.

Root Cause

This issue is being tracked via an internal Bugzilla.

Diagnostic Steps

Ensure that you are running into this bug by doing the following:

1) Enter the foreman-rake console

# foreman-rake console

2) Destroy the content & subscription facets, then the host itself using rails:

 irb(main):001:0> Host.find_by_name("rhel7.example.com").content_facet.destroy!
 irb(main):002:0> Host.find_by_name("rhel7.example.com").subscription_facet.destroy!
 irb(main):003:0> Host.find_by_name("rhel7.example.com").destroy!

3) Try once again to register the host, and you should see the message:

Validation Failed: Host has already been taken

4) Subsequent attempts to register (with force) will yield the message:

Consumer with id  XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXX could not be found

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