Foreman 3.11 upgrade

[SarathHewage]

My Sandpit environment was upgraded from 3.8->3.9->3.10-3.11
After upgraded to 3.11 it was very slow
Then I realised the Following Backend System status have been failed
candlepin
candlepin_auth
candlepin_events

When I checked /etc/candlepin/candlepin.conf found the candlepin password for org.quartz.dataSource.myDS.user and jpa.config.hibernate.connection.username was overwritten with the word “Candlepin_Password”
After change the /etc/candlepin/candlepin.conf with correct candlepin password the slowness was fixed.
But still above three candlepin Sytems are in FAIL status

example
candlepin FAIL 404 Not Found
candlepin_auth FAIL Katello::Errors::CandlepinNotRunning
candlepin_events FAIL Not running

What is the fix for this?

Thanks in advance

[lumarel]

Hey there,
this topic also already lives in

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[jeremylenz]

@SarathHewage

When I checked /etc/candlepin/candlepin.conf found the candlepin password for org.quartz.dataSource.myDS.user and jpa.config.hibernate.connection.username was overwritten with the word “Candlepin_Password”

I see the instructions for using Katello with an external database tell you to create users like this: Installing Foreman Server with Katello 4.13 plugin on Enterprise Linux

I assumed that means to replace “Candlepin_Password” with the real password, but it’s a bit unclear. Is it possible this was from following that?

[nikos_moum]

candlepin-4.4.13-1 is now available, which contains the fix for the candlepin startup issue