Katello automatically creates OS called "RedHat 7.x" associating two installation media - one for Server the other for Workstation. This is because Puppet insist on this name (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1155704). User needs to pick up in host/hosgroup proper inst. media, which causes redownload of kernel/initram disk every time different OS variant is being installed. There is a bug in smart-proxy that corrupts redownloaded files under some circumstances (when remote file is bigger than local) thank to how wget utilizes the -c option. We can solve this by either changing the naming pattern: http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/19389 Or simply removing the "-c" option which will cause redownloads on every single provisioning. This should be opt-in setting.
WORKAROUND: Locate http_download.rb file in /usr/share/foreman-proxy directory and remove "-c" (continue) flag. https://github.com/theforeman/smart-proxy/blob/933f2b096a8474538915a1edefadfb8f5e757a0d/lib/proxy/http_download.rb
Lukas, it doesn't appear there is any solid upstream patch for this yet? Can you confirm if the workaround is suitable for a real fix?
Sup Mike, upstream did not much like the idea of adding temporary setting for wget to be able to remove faulty "-c" option. On the other hand, there is a associated ticket which solves this problem in a nicer way and it is Pending Merge: http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/19389 I am now associating this with this BZ and closing the original issue.
This problem can also happen when there is kernel/initramdisk update from Red Hat release engineering (it rarely happens).
*** Bug 1571290 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Upstream bug assigned to sshtein
I don't think the change we are talking about is back-portable to 6.3 (or even 6.4)
Moving this bug to POST for triage into Satellite 6 since the upstream issue http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/19389 has been resolved.
VERIFIED on sat6.5.0 snap #19 i enabled & synced (immediate dl policy) both Rhel 7.5 Workstation & Server kickstart repos. - then i provisioned a rhel server host and after that a rhe lworkstation host: [root@sat-6-5-qa-rhel7 boot]# pwd /var/lib/tftpboot/boot [root@sat-6-5-qa-rhel7 boot]# ll total 119016 -rw-r--r--. 1 foreman-proxy foreman-proxy 54525200 Mar 13 13:45 red-hat-enterprise-linux-7-server-kickstart-x86_64-7-5-29-initrd.img -rw-r--r--. 1 foreman-proxy foreman-proxy 6381872 Mar 13 13:44 red-hat-enterprise-linux-7-server-kickstart-x86_64-7-5-29-vmlinuz -rw-r--r--. 1 foreman-proxy foreman-proxy 54572776 Mar 13 13:54 red-hat-enterprise-linux-7-workstation-kickstart-x86_64-7-5-30-initrd.img -rw-r--r--. 1 foreman-proxy foreman-proxy 6381872 Mar 13 13:54 red-hat-enterprise-linux-7-workstation-kickstart-x86_64-7-5-30-vmlinuz both hosts got provisioned properly
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, 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/RHSA-2019:1222