Katello 4.0 installation on RHEL 8 failed

Some more information about my doing/setup:

  • My setup is only intend for developing/evaluation/training purpose, so it is very small:
    4x cpus and 8GB memory
  • running only foreman on this system worked fine for months
  • For comparison I do an installation in a virtual system (kvm) with the same performance data as my physical system. There it works !
  • The only obvious different I can see til now is the disk layout: In the vm it is all one partition, on the physical system it looks like this
[root@scotty ~]# df -h
Filesystem                   Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs                     3.8G     0  3.8G   0% /dev
tmpfs                        3.8G   28K  3.8G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs                        3.8G  8.9M  3.8G   1% /run
tmpfs                        3.8G     0  3.8G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/vgsys-lvroot      16G  3.1G   12G  21% /
/dev/mapper/vgsys-lvpgsql    7.9G  138M  7.3G   2% /var/lib/pgsql
/dev/mapper/vgsys-lvforeman  976M  385M  525M  43% /var/lib/foreman
/dev/mapper/vgsys-lvhome     976M  2.6M  907M   1% /home
/dev/mapper/vgsys-lvlog      976M   55M  855M   7% /var/log
/dev/mapper/vgsys-lvtmp      2.0G   13M  1.8G   1% /tmp
/dev/sdb2                    976M  221M  689M  25% /boot
/dev/mapper/vgsys-lvopt      976M  236M  674M  26% /opt
/dev/sdb1                    599M  6.9M  592M   2% /boot/efi
/dev/mapper/vgdata-lvtftp    976M  4.4M  905M   1% /var/lib/tftpboot
/dev/mapper/vgdata-lvwiki    976M  2.6M  907M   1% /var/www/dokuwiki
/dev/mapper/vgdata-lvpuppet  976M  2.6M  907M   1% /etc/puppetlabs/code
/dev/mapper/vgdata-lvpulp    9.8G   40M  9.3G   1% /var/lib/pulp
/dev/mapper/vgdata-lvqpid    976M   15M  894M   2% /var/lib/qpidd
tmpfs                        767M     0  767M   0% /run/user/0
[root@scotty ~]#
  • differing from the instructions at What is the state of Katello support on EL8 - #8 by ehelms for rhel it is not powertools but codeready-builder
  • I saw some hints in the logs regarding selinux, so I try to set selinux to permissive (with no luck)
  • no selinux profiles are enabled
  • cockpit is disabled on the system because of port conflicts with the smart-proxy (9090)