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I am in CentOS 7

I was following https://theforeman.org/manuals/1.11/index.html#3.InstallingForeman

Is the Foreman web UI and installation itself working, with the exception of the smart proxy? Did you pass any arguments or change installer parameters from the defaults?

Dominic Cleal wrote:

Is the Foreman web UI and installation itself working, with the exception of the smart proxy? Did you pass any arguments or change installer parameters from the defaults?

Yes. Web UI is working. Getting this output after installation and foreman web UI is loading.

/Stage[main]/Foreman_proxy::Register/Foreman_smartproxy[myinternal.hostname.com]: Could not evaluate: Proxy myinternal.hostname.com cannot be registered ("\xE2" on US-ASCII): N/A
Installing             Done                                               [100%] [...............................................................................]
  Something went wrong! Check the log for ERROR-level output
 * Foreman is running at https://myinternal.hostname.com
      Initial credentials are admin / <random-password>
 * Foreman Proxy is running at https://myinternal.hostname.com:8443
 * Puppetmaster is running at port 8140
  The full log is at /var/log/foreman-installer/foreman.log

1. netstat -tupln

Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:46318 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2119/Passenger Rack
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 798/sshd
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:5432 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 897/postgres
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1325/master
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8443 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2075/ruby
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:54496 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2478/Passenger Rack
tcp6 0 0 :::8140 :::* LISTEN 814/httpd
tcp6 0 0 :::80 :::* LISTEN 814/httpd
tcp6 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN 798/sshd
tcp6 0 0 ::1:5432 :::* LISTEN 897/postgres
tcp6 0 0 ::1:25 :::* LISTEN 1325/master
tcp6 0 0 :::443 :::* LISTEN 814/httpd
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:69 0.0.0.0:* 847/xinetd

Also when I do puppet agent test getting following error

1. puppet agent --test

Warning: Unable to fetch my node definition, but the agent run will continue:
Warning: Error 400 on SERVER: Failed to find myinternal.hostname.com via exec: Execution of '/etc/puppet/node.rb myinternal.hostname.com' returned 1:
Info: Retrieving pluginfacts
Info: Retrieving plugin
Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Failed when searching for node myinternal.hostname.com: Failed to find myinternal.hostname.com via exec: Execution of '/etc/puppet/node.rb myinternal.hostname.com' returned 1:
Warning: Not using cache on failed catalog
Error: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run

I didn't pass any arguments with the installer command.

1. foreman-installer

Firewalld and selinux is disabled on the server

What does echo $LANG output in your shell?

I wonder what's in /var/log/foreman/production.log. Usually that has more information. However, I suspect that there's a hidden unicode character somewhere in your hostname.

Dominic Cleal wrote:

What does echo $LANG output in your shell?

1. echo $LANG
   en_US.UTF-8

Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden wrote:

I wonder what's in /var/log/foreman/production.log. Usually that has more information. However, I suspect that there's a hidden unicode character somewhere in your hostname.

I have following logs in production.log

2016-06-28 10:04:54 [app] [I] Completed 403 Forbidden in 10ms (ActiveRecord: 0.9ms)
2016-06-28 10:04:54 [app] [I] Started POST "/api/reports" for 127.0.0.1 at 2016-06-28 10:04:54 -0400
2016-06-28 10:04:54 [app] [I] Processing by Api::V2::ReportsController#create as JSON
2016-06-28 10:04:54 [app] [I] Parameters: {"report"=>"[FILTERED]", "apiv"=>"v2"}
2016-06-28 10:04:54 [app] [W] No smart proxy server found on ["myinternal.hostname.com", "puppet", "puppet.hostname.com"] and is not in trusted_puppetmaster_hosts
2016-06-28 10:04:54 [app] [I] Rendered api/v2/errors/access_denied.json.rabl within api/v2/layouts/error_layout (0.9ms)
2016-06-28 10:04:54 [app] [I] Filter chain halted as #<Proc:0x000000054c29a8@/usr/share/foreman/app/controllers/concerns/foreman/controller/smart_proxy_auth.rb:14> rendered or redirected

Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden wrote:

I wonder what's in /var/log/foreman/production.log. Usually that has more information. However, I suspect that there's a hidden unicode character somewhere in your hostname.

I checked hidden char in hostname as follows

printf "%s" "$host_name" | wc
0 1 26

Which gives the same length as my hostname

Javad Shareef wrote:

Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden wrote:

I wonder what's in /var/log/foreman/production.log. Usually that has more information. However, I suspect that there's a hidden unicode character somewhere in your hostname.

I checked hidden char in hostname as follows

printf "%s" "$host_name" | wc
0 1 26

Which gives the same length as my hostname

At last found the issue. The issue was with charset. I have fixed by running following command

localedef -c -f UTF-8 -i en_US en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

Also added entry in /etc/environment as follows

export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

Then rebooted the machine.

Later everything went well... Hureyy.....