Missing files after updates

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Problem:
After Linux-Updates we faced some Problems:

  • /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/autosign.conf is empty
  • /etc/puppetlabs/puppetserver/ca/signed/ is empty except the cert of the puppetserver itself
  • /etc/httpd/conf.d/05-foreman.d is empty. Symlink to additional webserver-config has been removed

Part of the yum history info:
Upgrade ansible-collection-theforeman-foreman-3.12.0-1.el8.noarch
Upgraded ansible-collection-theforeman-foreman-3.11.0-1.el8.noarch
Upgrade rubygem-foreman_ansible-12.0.5-1.fm3_7.el8.noarch
Upgraded rubygem-foreman_ansible-12.0.4-1.fm3_7.el8.noarch
Upgrade rubygem-foreman_remote_execution-10.0.5-1.fm3_7.el8.noarch
Upgraded rubygem-foreman_remote_execution-10.0.1-1.fm3_7.el8.noarch
Upgrade puppet-agent-7.24.0-1.el8.x86_64
Upgraded puppet-agent-7.23.0-1.el8.x86_64
Upgrade puppetserver-7.11.0-1.el8.noarch
Upgraded puppetserver-7.9.5-1.el8.noarch
Upgrade httpd-2.4.37-56.module+el8.8.0+18758+b3a9c8da.6.x86_64
Upgraded httpd-2.4.37-51.module+el8.7.0+18026+7b169787.1.x86_64
Upgrade httpd-tools-2.4.37-56.module+el8.8.0+18758+b3a9c8da.6.x86_64
Upgraded httpd-tools-2.4.37-51.module+el8.7.0+18026+7b169787.1.x86_64
Upgrade mod_http2-1.15.7-8.module+el8.8.0+18751+b4557bca.3.x86_64
Upgraded mod_http2-1.15.7-5.module+el8.6.0+13996+01710940.x86_64
Upgrade httpd-filesystem-2.4.37-56.module+el8.8.0+18758+b3a9c8da.6.noarch
Upgraded httpd-filesystem-2.4.37-51.module+el8.7.0+18026+7b169787.1.noarch

After we have restored all the files and have restarted all services it seems to work but all clients did’nt get puppet-changes. We have executed the foreman-installer with every parameter as we installed the server then everything was fine.

Do we something wrong or is this a bug?

Expected outcome:
No deletion of necessary files.

Foreman and Proxy versions:
3.6.1
Foreman and Proxy plugin versions:
3.6.1
Distribution and version:
RHEL8
Other relevant data:

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You have to run foreman-installer after each update of dependent rpms like httpd and others as the rpms restore files which break foreman. foreman-installer will restore the correct state and remove those files.

Just run foreman-installer without any arguments. It runs the installer using the current configuration.

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Hi gvde,
thank’s for this important information.
And what about the cleared files and directories?

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Does anybody know why this directories/files are cleared after update?

  • /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/autosign.conf is empty
  • /etc/puppetlabs/puppetserver/ca/signed/ is empty except the cert of the puppetserver itself
  • /etc/httpd/conf.d/05-foreman.d is empty. Symlink to additional webserver-config has been removed