Red Hat Satellite upgrade fails with a 'hostname doesn't have 3 fields (111.222.333). Can't be FQDN'
Issue
- Red Hat Satellite 5.8 upgrade fails while running the pre-install checks similar to the output below, the
hostnamebelow is short and not afully qualified domain name(FQDN).
# ./install.pl --upgrade --skip-selinux-test
* Starting Red Hat Satellite installer.
* Performing pre-install checks.
hostname doesn't have 3 fields (111.222.333). Can't be FQDN.
Use --skip-fqdn-test to bypass this error.
Exiting... Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL6)
- Red Hat Satellite 5.8
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