cephadm-preflight playbook fails at TASK [disable older rhceph repositories if any] for RHCS 7.0

Solution Verified - Updated -

Environment

  • Red Hat Ceph Storage (RHCS) 7.0

Issue

  • cephadm-preflight playbook fails at TASK [disable older rhceph repositories if any] for RHCS 7.0:
TASK [disable older rhceph repositories if any] ***************************************************************************************************************
Wednesday 17 January 2024  23:03:32 -0600 (0:00:23.169)       0:00:27.086 ***** 
fatal: [testathon2]: FAILED! => changed=false 
  msg: rhceph-4-tools-for-rhel-9-x86_64-rpms is not a valid repository ID
  results:
  - rhceph-4-tools-for-rhel-9-x86_64-rpms is not a valid repository ID
fatal: [testathon1]: FAILED! => changed=false 
  msg: rhceph-4-mon-for-rhel-9-x86_64-rpms is not a valid repository ID
  results:
  - rhceph-4-mon-for-rhel-9-x86_64-rpms is not a valid repository ID
fatal: [testathon3]: FAILED! => changed=false 
  msg: rhceph-4-osd-for-rhel-9-x86_64-rpms is not a valid repository ID
  results:
  - rhceph-4-osd-for-rhel-9-x86_64-rpms is not a valid repository ID

PLAY RECAP ****************************************************************************************************************************************************
localhost                  : ok=0    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0    skipped=3    rescued=0    ignored=0   
testathon1                 : ok=2    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0   
testathon2                 : ok=2    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0   
testathon3                 : ok=2    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0

Resolution

Root Cause

  • When disabling the older repository for RHCS 4, the task will choose these as a repository rhceph-4-mon-for-rhel-9-x86_64-rpms, rhceph-4-tools-for-rhel-9-x86_64-rpms and rhceph-4-osd-for-rhel-9-x86_64-rpms which actually doesn't exist.

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