Red Hat Satellite upgrade from 6.3 to 6.4 fails if IPv6 is disabled.
Issue
- Red Hat Satellite upgrade from 6.3 to 6.4 fails if IPv6 is disabled.
- On Red Hat satellite 6.4, foreman-proxy service fails to start if IPv6 is disabled
Oct 19 13:14:56 satellite.example.com systemd[1]: Starting Foreman Proxy...
Oct 19 13:14:57 satellite.example.com smart-proxy[24755]: Running Foreman Ansible Core in non-SCL context
Oct 19 13:14:57 satellite.example.com smart-proxy[24755]: Errors detected on startup, see log for details. Exiting: Address fa
mily not supported by protocol - socket(2)
Oct 19 13:14:57 satellite.example.com systemd[1]: foreman-proxy.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Oct 19 13:14:57 satellite.example.com systemd[1]: Failed to start Foreman Proxy.
Oct 19 13:14:57 satellite.example.com systemd[1]: Unit foreman-proxy.service entered failed state.
Oct 19 13:14:57 satellite.example.com systemd[1]: foreman-proxy.service failed.
Environment
- Red Hat Satellite 6.4
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