Operating system information is outdated

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Problem: I’ve upgraded a Debian 9 system to Debian 10 and Foreman does not update the information in the operating system property. Also when waiting for multiple days.

Expected outcome: Update the property field to Debian 10.

Foreman and Proxy versions: 2.0

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The “inventory” gets updated if a configuration management report with a changed value comes in. Can you verify that Puppet/Ansible/… is still sending reports?

If it does and the os changed here, there is also an option in the settings to disable the update, so this would be the second thing to verify.

If reports are coming in, os has changed and update is not disabled, then it is most likely a bug and some logs are needed.

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Reports are being created. But it seems the update host from facts setting is turned off:

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Seems to be a bug, since this option does not help :slightly_frowning_face: After 2 Puppet agent runs Foreman is still claiming the host runs Debian 9 instead of 10.

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@Dirk Do you need a bug report somewhere for this?

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As none of the developers jumped on it here, creating a bugreport at https://projects.theforeman.org/projects/foreman/issues/new would be good, but I am not sure which category fits.

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Done: Bug #31981: Operating system information is not being updated - Foreman

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I think I’ve hit the same or similar issue and after discussing with @evgeni on IRC have added my findings to the ticket.

@mfuhrmann - Did you discover anything extra? For example, does your host have ‘interesting’ networking facts like mine??

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@afisher You could be right!
I’ve upgraded yesterday a simple U16 VM to Ubuntu 18. Foreman does tell the truth in this case :thinking:

The issue I’ve described above is related to some Debian hosts with a little bit more network config than usual. An example:

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
iface eno1 inet static
        address 0.0.0.0

iface eno2 inet static
        address 0.0.0.0

iface bond0 inet static
        address 0.0.0.0
        bond-mode active-backup
        bond-slaves eno1 eno2
        bond-miimon 100
        bond-updelay 200
        bond-downdelay 200

iface vlan100 inet static
        address 0.0.0.0
        vlan-raw-device bond0

iface vmbr100 inet static
        bridge-ports vlan100
        address 172.22.65.31
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        gateway 172.22.65.254
        dns-nameservers 172.22.65.11
        dns-search my.domain.com

auto eno1 eno2 bond0 vlan100 vmbr100