Bug 1824422

sounds like unrelated to RHV. RHEL bug?

I tried out the following ks with RHEL-8.2.0-20200310.0-BaseOS-x86_64-boot.iso, subscription works fine:

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lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
rootpw redhat
timezone America/New_York
zerombr
clearpart --all --initlabel
autopart
rhsm --organization="your-id" --activation-key="your-key" --connect-to-insights --server-hostname="subscription.rhsm.stage.redhat.com" --rhsm-baseurl="https://cdn.stage.redhat.com"
%packages
vim
%end

For rhvh 4.4, rhsm cmd works fine if define graphical installation mode in ks. But in text mode, some files, like /etc/pki/entitlement/*.pem, /etc/rhsm/rhsm.conf, are not synced to /mnt/sysimage/etc/. I think it should be related to Anaconda.

Does this still reproduce?

Chen will test it and provide the results.

> Does this still reproduce?

Yes, still can reproduce this issue on RHVH-4.4-20210903.0-RHVH-x86_64-dvd1.iso.

Info checked after first reboot:
# subscription-manager list
+-------------------------------------------+
    Installed Product Status
+-------------------------------------------+
Product Name:   Red Hat Virtualization Host
Product ID:     328
Version:        4
Arch:           x86_64
Status:         Unknown
Status Details: 
Starts:         
Ends:           

# ls -al /etc/pki/entitlement/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root   6 Jun  8 21:11 .
drwxr-xr-x. 16 root root 231 Sep  3 10:36 ..

Hi,

could you please provide us new logs from the installation. I would like to check if you are using Anaconda before or after rebase.

Created attachment 1822502 [details]
new-log

And just a note, that I was not able to reproduce this bug when installing from an rpm repository - "inst.repo=http://..." on the kernel command line and no "liveimg" in kickstart.

After evaluating this issue, there are no plans to address it further or fix it in an upcoming release.  Therefore, it is being closed.  If plans change such that this issue will be fixed in an upcoming release, then the bug can be reopened.

RHEL-9 clone: bug 2017428

Turns out this is caused by installation task queue being populated before background processing threads (including the subscription thread) can finish processing. As a result the subscription token transfer task gets scheduled in "do nothing" mode as at the time it is added to the task queue, the system is not yet subscribed.

This has been fixed by first waiting for all background processing threads to finish and only then start to populate installation task queue.
Thanks a lot to Vendula Poncova for help tracking down the root cause as well as to Honza Stodola for helping me test the fix! :)

PR with fix: https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/pull/3704

Verified with anaconda-33.16.6.4-1.el8, the installed system was registered after both GUI and TUI kickstart installations with liveimg:

[root@localhost ~]# subscription-manager list
+-------------------------------------------+
    Installed Product Status
+-------------------------------------------+
Product Name:   Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 Beta
Product ID:     486
Version:        8.6 Beta
Arch:           x86_64
Status:         Subscribed
Status Details: 
Starts:         16.12.2020
Ends:           15.12.2021

[root@localhost ~]#


Config files were transferred to the installed system:
...
15:43:43,516 WARNING org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Subscription:INFO:anaconda.threading:Running Thread: AnaTaskThread-TransferSubscriptionTokensTask-1 (140650179622656)
15:43:43,517 WARNING org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Subscription:DEBUG:anaconda.modules.subscription.installation:subscription: transferring syspurpose file
15:43:43,529 WARNING org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Subscription:DEBUG:anaconda.modules.subscription.installation:subscription: transferring entitlement keys
15:43:43,532 WARNING org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Subscription:DEBUG:anaconda.modules.subscription.installation:subscription: transferring RHSM consumer key
15:43:43,532 WARNING org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Subscription:DEBUG:anaconda.modules.subscription.installation:subscription: transferring RHSM consumer cert
15:43:43,533 WARNING org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Subscription:DEBUG:anaconda.modules.subscription.installation:subscription: transferring RHSM repo file
15:43:43,535 WARNING org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Subscription:DEBUG:anaconda.modules.subscription.installation:subscription: transferring RHSM config file
15:43:43,536 WARNING org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Subscription:INFO:anaconda.threading:Thread Done: AnaTaskThread-TransferSubscriptionTokensTask-1 (140650179622656)
...

Also successfully tested an interactive GUI installation with registration and with liveimg specified as the only command in the kickstart file.

The "CDN / kickstart registration / GUI" and "CDN / kickstart registration / TUI" test cases will be executed as part of the final verification due to infrastructure issues.

anaconda-33.16.6.4-1.el8 is included in RHEL-8.6.0-20211201.1, moving to VERIFIED.

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (anaconda bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2022:1780