Bug 2166361

Summary:	[RFE]: Check for conflicting versions of languages configured to be used by the user executing the satellite-maintain or satellite-installer command
Product:	Red Hat Satellite	Reporter:	Taft Sanders <tasander>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	satellite6-bugs <satellite6-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Satellite QE Team <sat-qe-bz-list>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	6.12.1	CC:	ehelms
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Target Release:	Unused
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Description Taft Sanders 2023-02-01 15:22:32 UTC

Description of problem:
Satellite-installer should detect if the user used to invoke the command has a custom language path configured for the necessary languages needed by Satellite.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
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How reproducible:
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Actual results:
Installer fails with very unique errors when custom languages are configured on the host.

Expected results:
Step 1 of the installer should be to validate or set the path of the language used by a user for the entirety of the run of the command.

Additional info:
A simple example with a custom python environment:
[root@bombsat610 ~]# ll /usr/local/lib/
total 21352
-r-xr-xr-x.  1 root root 21848784 Aug 25 07:44 libpython3.6m.a
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root       27 Aug 25 07:45 pkgconfig
drwxr-xr-x. 35 root root     8192 Aug 25 07:44 python3.6


Satellite upgrade fails with the following:
2023-02-01 07:21:03 [ERROR ] [configure] 'pulpcore-manager migrate --noinput' returned 1 instead of one of [0]
2023-02-01 07:21:03 [ERROR ] [configure] /Stage[main]/Pulpcore::Database/Pulpcore::Admin[migrate --noinput]/Exec[pulpcore-manager migrate --noinput]/returns: change from 'notrun' to ['0'] failed: 'pulpcore-manager migrate --noinput' returned 1 instead of one of [0]


Removing this custom python version from this path allowed the upgrade to use the correct python and access the correct libraries.

A check for alternate language binaries should be checked for at the start of an installer run.

Comment 1 Eric Helms 2023-03-02 17:13:55 UTC

I don't think we are likely to address this issue. We expect the system to be a clean RHEL installation and for things like other Python's not to exist outside of what is required by Satellite.