General Bug in foreman-installer? Even fresh install does not work anymore

anpk · March 13, 2018, 4:16pm

Ok i found the problem, but i do not know really how to handle it …
It seems that the foreman-installer fails on a might correct systemwide proxy configuration.

I set my proxy like this:

/etc/profile.d/proxy.sh
export http_proxy=http://my.proxy.com:8000
export https_proxy=http://my.proxy.com:8000

visudo
Defaults env_keep += "http_proxy"
Defaults env_keep += “https_proxy”

i know that the proxy configuration works because yum and other applications can install over http and https. But foreman-installer fails.

If i do not set a systemwide proxy and just configure yum in /etc/yum.conf with the proxy, then the foreman-installer does not fails.

is there something i do not know?

ekohl · March 13, 2018, 4:27pm

So that’s what I suggested to check earlier:

I think we should consider copying the katello check for proxies because it’s known to cause problems:

github.com

Katello/katello-installer/blob/master/checks/env_variables.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

variables = %w(http_proxy https_proxy ssl_cert_file)

if variables.map { |variable| ENV[variable] }.compact.any?
  $stderr.puts "Please unset the following environment variables before running the installer: #{variables.join(', ')}"
  exit 1
end

That is indeed the recommended solution.

anpk · March 13, 2018, 4:33pm

@ekohl

ok thanks for your answer and your help and patience. Honestly, i think my english was not so good at this point. I interpreted your text with the proxy that i should look if the communication over a proxy is not blocked (= the proxy server is set correctly) … Sorry for that!

a check as your show up would be great.

best regards

ekohl · March 13, 2018, 5:24pm

No problem. Written communication tends to be hard and things get lost in translations.