Red Hat Satellite upgrade from version 6.15 to 6.16 fails with the following error - [ERROR ] [configure] satellite.example.com puppetserver[xxxxxx]: Unrecognized VM option 'MaxPermSize=256m'

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Issue

  • Red Hat Satellite upgrade to 6.16 fails with the following error -

    2024-11-19 08:17:45 [ERROR ] [configure] Systemd start for puppetserver failed!
    2024-11-19 08:17:45 [ERROR ] [configure] journalctl log for puppetserver:
    2024-11-19 08:17:45 [ERROR ] [configure] Nov 19 08:17:44 satellite.example.com systemd[1]: Starting puppetserver Service...
    2024-11-19 08:17:45 [ERROR ] [configure] Nov 19 08:17:44 satellite.example.com puppetserver[xxxxxx]: Unrecognized VM option 'MaxPermSize=256m'
    2024-11-19 08:17:45 [ERROR ] [configure] Nov 19 08:17:44 satellite.example.com puppetserver[xxxxxx]: Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
    2024-11-19 08:17:45 [ERROR ] [configure] Nov 19 08:17:44 satellite.example.com puppetserver[xxxxxx]: Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.
    2024-11-19 08:17:45 [ERROR ] [configure] Nov 19 08:17:45 satellite.example.com puppetserver[xxxxxx]: Background process xxxxxx exited before start had completed
    2024-11-19 08:17:45 [ERROR ] [configure] Nov 19 08:17:45 satellite.example.com systemd[1]: puppetserver.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
    2024-11-19 08:17:45 [ERROR ] [configure] Nov 19 08:17:45 satellite.example.com systemd[1]: puppetserver.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
    2024-11-19 08:17:45 [ERROR ] [configure] Nov 19 08:17:45 satellite.example.com systemd[1]: Failed to start puppetserver Service.
    2024-11-19 08:17:45 [ERROR ] [configure] /Stage[main]/Puppet::Server::Service/Service[puppetserver]/ensure: change from 'stopped' to 'running' failed: Systemd start for puppetserver failed!
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6.15

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