The foreman-proxy service fails with error malloc_consolidate(): unaligned fastbin chunk detected while provisioning a host from Red Hat Satellite or Capsule server

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • The foreman-proxy service fails with the following error while provisioning a host from Red Hat Satellite\Capsule servers deployed on RHEL 8.8.

    satellite.example.com smart-proxy[1892]: 10.1.98.xxx - - [24/May/2023:11:xx:xx CEST] "POST /realm/satellite.example.com/ HTTP/1.1" 200 632
    satellite.example.com smart-proxy[1892]: - -> /realm/satellite.example.com/
    satellite.example.com smart-proxy[1892]: malloc_consolidate(): unaligned fastbin chunk detected
    satellite.example.com systemd[1]: foreman-proxy.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=6/ABRT
    satellite.example.com systemd[1]: foreman-proxy.service: Failed with result 'signal'.
    / All services displayed
    Some services are not running (foreman-proxy)
    
  • This issue is only observed when External Authentication for Provisioned Hosts is enabled via realm-capsule.

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6.11
  • Red Hat Satellite 6.12
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8

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