Red Hat Satellite or Red Hat Capsule upgrade returns "You are trying to replace existing installation with different scenario" error.

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Issue

  • When upgrading a Red Hat Satellite 6.x or Red Hat Capsule 6.x, using satellite-installer, the below error is observed:
[ INFO 2020-08-07T10:57:37 verbose] Executing hooks in group pre_migrations
[ INFO 2020-08-07T10:57:37 verbose] All hooks in group pre_migrations finished
[ERROR 2020-08-07T10:57:37 verbose] You are trying to replace existing installation with different scenario. This may lead to unpredictable states. Use --force to override. You can use --compare-scenarios to see the differences
[ INFO 2020-08-07T10:57:37 verbose] Log was be written to /var/log/foreman-installer/capsule.log
[ INFO 2020-08-07T10:57:37 verbose] Logs flushed

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6.x
  • Red Hat Capsule 6.x

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