Red Hat Satellite 5.7 upgrade failed with embedded database error: "There was a problem during embedded database upgrade".

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Issue

  • Satellite upgrade failed with embedded database error: There was a problem during embedded database upgrade. 
      [root@XXXX]# ␉ ./install.pl --upgrade --skip-fqdn-test  --skip-selinux-test 
        ..................
        ** Database: Setting up database connection for PostgreSQL backend.
        *** Upgrading embedded database.
        There was a problem during embedded database upgrade.
        Exit value: 2.

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 5.7
  • Red Hat Satellite 5.8

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