#theforeman

hello guys !

I am totally new in foreman and I am still working now more then 2 weeks to solve my Problem... I added libvirt as hypervisior in foreman and I can provision my stuff... but I am not able to open a "console" on it... if someone have a idea or want to be payed for this information... please ping me... I am getting crazy :(

Hello. I'm having a problem uploading facts from puppet to foreman. Foreman is configured as the ENC per documentation, but facts are not being uploaded. When trying to upload facts manually using node.rb --push-facts it immediately returns without error, but I have no facts in foreman. Any pointers?

Does someone know a freelancer for foreman ?

stbenjam, I ended up cloning the finish template and adding a sleep 1000000 so I could run the finish script by hand. And then everything goes fine... go figure.

stbenjam, there must be something wrong with the in-target script. Here is the output from the finish script if I run myself chrooted in the installer: https://hastebin.com/bedafaquwe.sql

fyi, I fixed my fact upload issue. Wrong puppetdir in foreman.yaml

So, I accidentally added a product+repo that I want to delete, but when I went to delete it, there was an error with candlepin... I skipped the step and resumed the delete task, and the project is still there, but now when I try to delete it I get this error: undefined method `content_id' for nil:NilClass Did you mean? contains_erb?

Sorry, I meant to specify that I'm talking about Katello

Is there any index of all the foreman-rake/katello-* commands? I can't find anything on google...

twobitsprite: can you pastebin the traceback?

twobitsprite: also if you can find that candlepin error, that may help us figure out what went wrong

generally anything that is doing a creation/deletion, you should never skip steps on

It was yesterday when it failed and I checked the candlepin logs and there wasn't anything that seemed like an error...

I think the problem was just that I didn't have enough memory on the VM and the JVM process died...

where would I find the traceback? I'm just looking at the error reported on the web UI

Last time I was setting up Satellite 6 about a year ago, I recall there was a foreman-rake command to clean up orphaned objects, but I can't find it

Now I'm just doing a non-enterprise katello setup

twobitsprite: 'non-enterprise?'

twobitsprite: in the task, if you click on the errors or raw tab you may see it

or you might have to click on the 'dynflow console' button

and you may see it in there

jsherrill: non-enterprise, as in, I'm running upstream, open-source foreman+katello as opposed to the pay-for Satelllite 6

ohh yes

thats fine

how much memory did you have?

I think I had like 2G, but I upped it to 8G

If I click on anything, nothing happens

twobitsprite: yeah 2 G is not good

i'm surprised you got anywhere

I didn't get far :P

twobitsprite: would you want to just start over?

foreman-installer --reset

But I've increased the memory now... so there has to be some way to get out of this, right?

should just wipe everything you've done

I mean, I could, but that sounds like the wrong answer... surely there has to be a way to clear errors like this in the future, right?

Feels like it would be pretty bad design if there's no simple way to force removal of something if it failed half way through...

well, so you're not supposed to skip steps on things like that. There are ways of clearing it, its just not super simple

What would have been the right thing to do when it failed the first time?

twobitsprite: resolve the issue (adding more memory and restarting), then 'resume' the task

Seems like "skip+resume" was the default answer before when I ran in to failed tasks before...

its more 'fix the issue + resume'

skipping is rarely the right solution unless other things have gone really far off the track

still seems like a bad design and/or bug that you can't just force removal of something, but ok

twobitsprite: yeah, we've worked to allow you to delete things in a half removal state