Steps to retest: 1. Have a satellite spin up to work on 2. Spin up a rhel box for the NFS share 3. On both systems, run: "rpm -q nfs-utils" a. This checks if the system has nfs already installed (it should) 4. On NFS share, run "systemctl status nfs" to check if NFS is running or enabled 5. If not, then enabled the it via "systemctl enable nfs --now" and recheck status. It should be active. 6. run: “systemctl start nfs-server”, then “systemctl status nfs-server” to ensure that running NFS-server is running. 7. Ensure that the dir /mnt is blank because we're using this location for the export but you can put it anywhere or create a separate dir for this 8. Create an export point by adding "/mnt <sat-server>(rw)" to /etc/exports using vim 9. Stop firewall just in case: systemctl stop firewalld 10. Run: exportfs -r 11. On the satellite, create a separate folder (pulp1) 12. Grant all permission to pulp1 and /var/lib/pulp/ by running: chown -R pulp:pulp /var/lib/pulp/ and chown -R pulp:pulp pulp1 13. Stop firewall here as well just in case: systemctl stop firewalld 14. run: mount -t nfs <nfs-share server name>:/mnt pulp1 -v a. It should output something like this for status: mount.nfs: timeout set for Fri Mar 18 14:25:52 2022 mount.nfs: trying text-based options 15. copy everything in /var/lib/pulp to the share: cp -r /var/lib/pulp/* pulp1 16. On NFS, check /mnt to ensure that the folder structure of /var/lib/pulp is in there (it should have assets, import, exports, tmp, etc) 17. On NFS, create pulp user and grant necessary permissions: adduser pulp, chown -R pulp:pulp /mnt 18. run: umount <NFS share hostname>/mnt 19. Remount the NFS share to /var/lib/pulp/ with: mount -t nfs <nfs-share server name>:/mnt /var/lib/pulp/ -v a. Steps 14-18 is necessary so the NFS share has the same file structure as /var/lib/pulp in the export in /mnt. Then we can mount to /var/lib/pulp/ so that any writing into that dir in satellite can be directed to the NFS share one. If we don't do this, and we mount directly to /var/lib/pulp/, then pulp cannot work if all its contents was removed by mounting the empty filesystem 20. run: restorecon -Rv /var/lib/pulp 21. Restart pulp services or all services on satellite: foreman-maintain service restart 22. run: showmount -e <NSF share hostname> to ensure mount is still active 23. Create a custom repo and sync 24. Create a cv, add the repos, and publish Expected result: step 23 and 24 should complete successfully Actual: Step 23 and 24 does complete successfully To ensure that NFS share does populate correctly, I checked /mnt/media/artifact and the folder was populated. Prior, the artifact folder wasn't created because I haven't synced any repos yet. After syncing, content should appear in "artifact", which it did in my case and you can see that below: # ls /mnt/media/artifact 01 09 11 18 1d 22 26 31 35 3c 43 49 57 5e 63 6a 73 77 7f 86 92 98 9d a9 b0 b7 ca d7 e1 ef fd 03 0a 15 19 1e 23 2c 32 36 3e 44 4a 5a 60 65 6b 74 78 80 87 94 9a a0 aa b3 bc cd d8 e6 f4 fe 05 0d 16 1a 1f 24 2d 33 38 41 46 4b 5c 61 68 6c 75 7a 82 8c 95 9b a6 ad b5 c0 d1 d9 e8 f6 ff 07 10 17 1c 21 25 30 34 3b 42 48 53 5d 62 69 70 76 7b 83 91 96 9c a7 ae b6 c4 d6 dc ee f8 Verified on 6.10.4 snap 3 with python3-pulpcore-3.14.14-1.el7pc.noarch
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 (Satellite 6.10.4 Async Bug Fix 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-2022:1116