Foreman 3 Upgrade - uninitialized constant Environment

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Problem:
When clicking on “Manage Locations” or “Manage Organizations” → “Edit” it result in
“Oops, we’re sorry but something went wrong uninitialized constant Environment” - More details you can find in the attacment foreman3_uninitialized_constant.log (19.1 KB)

Expected outcome:
It is possible to edit the locations or organizations.

Foreman and Proxy versions:
Tested Foreman 3.0.1 and Foreman 3.1.0

Distribution and version:
Rhel7.9

Other relevant data:
We upgraded from 2.5.4 to 3.0.1 (problem occurs) to 3.1.0.

Temporary fix seems to be: remove “- Environment” from “ignore_types” in table “taxonomies” in the database.
I used: “update taxonomies set ignore_types = E’—\n- User\n- SmartProxy\n- Subnet\n- ComputeResource\n- Medium\n- ProvisioningTemplate\n- Ptable\n- Domain\n- Realm\n- Hostgroup\n’ where id=XXX;”

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I have exactly the same problem, even the log looks the same.
Upgrade 2.x.x → 3.0.1 → 3.1.0
new Locations working fine, but my biggest with 5500+ Hosts ends up in this error.
mismatch report fails as well.

Could you please explain a little more detailed how to fix this?

I had a look into the DB using pgAdmin, but i am a little afraid removing the wrong things.
in your psql line id=XXX ist the location?

Thanks for help!

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That was excatly what i’ve done. I used the psql command to update the taxonomies table directly in the database. But not sure if this can result in other errors, db constrain conficts, …

Perhaps somebody else can verify this?

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Hi,

There is already fix for this, that should get into 3.1.1, which is still not out.
In the meantime you can apply Puppet Environment in taxonomy ignore_types by stejskalleos · Pull Request #8962 · theforeman/foreman · GitHub and run purge:puppet.

For the instances with the Puppet plugin installed I need to finish the patch to fix this, but in the meantime you can fix it from foreman-rake console by running the following snippet.

    organizations = Organization.where("ignore_types LIKE '%Environment%'")
    locations = Location.where("ignore_types LIKE '%Environment%'")

    User.as_anonymous_admin do
      (organizations + locations).each do |tax|
        new_types = tax.ignore_types.reject { |type| type == "Environment" }
        tax.update ignore_types: new_types
      end
    end