Issues kickstarting RHEL 9 beta

[thatguy24601]

Hi, I opened a bugzilla with Red Hat on this (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2042730), so figured I'd just copy here. Hopefully that works:

Description of problem:

Kickstarting the RHEL 9 beta from Red Hat repositories gives errors when attempting to download certain packages.

Example message from failed kickstart: WRN packaging: Failed to download ‘shim-x64-15-16.el8.x86_64.rpm’: 3 - Interrupted by header callback: Server reports Content-Length: 682476 but expected size is: 683844

This happens with other packages if the system is set to BIOS instead of EFI, I saw the same message for python3-systemd-234-18.el9.x86_64.rpm

Additionally, if I change the sync policies of those repos from on-demand to immediate I see warnings on the sync about checksums from Red Hat's cdn not matching. Verifying the checksums doesn't appear to make this go away.

I was discussing this in Foreman's community forums here:

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Pulp3

How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Have an installation of Satellite 6.10
2. Sync RHEL 9 beta kickstart repositories
3. Attempt kickstart

Actual results:

WRN packaging: Failed to download ‘shim-x64-15-16.el8.x86_64.rpm’: 3 - Interrupted by header callback: Server reports Content-Length: 682476 but expected size is: 683844

Expected results:

Successful kickstart

Additional info:

[dralley]

Might be related to pulp/pulpcore#2119

[dralley]

This is almost certainly the same issue as ^^, which I have now reproduced, but I'll leave this one open for now and close it once the fix is confirmed.

[dralley]

I was wrong, it's not the same issue at all, in fact it's not a Pulp issue. The ‘shim-x64-15-16.el8.x86_64.rpm’ package itself seems to be corrupt at the source and the checksum does not match the repo metadata.

We'll keep you updated on the Bugzilla. Closing the issue here

[dralley]

Final update here: the package itself is fine, it's a valid RPM, it's just the wrong RPM for this repo. The package hasn't changed between RHEL 8 and RHEL 9 except for the package signatures, and for some reason it got mixed up.

A proper bug is being filed.