RHEL 8

Common Problems 114930

Systemd service fails to start with unit errors

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 25 October 2020 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors & Cross-Refs References & Further […]

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How to Set Up a VPN Server with StrongSwan IPsec on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up a VPN Server with StrongSwan IPsec on RHEL 8

StrongSwan is a robust open-source IPsec VPN solution that supports IKEv2 and is well-suited for site-to-site and remote-access VPN deployments. On RHEL 8, StrongSwan is available through the EPEL repository and integrates cleanly with firewalld and the system’s certificate infrastructure. This tutorial walks through installing StrongSwan, generating PKI certificates, configuring an IKEv2 road-warrior VPN, and […]

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Common Problems 114956

RHEL 8 SSH Login Delay Caused By Reverse DNS And GSSAPI

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 16 October 2020 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors & Cross-Refs References & Further […]

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How to Install and Configure Consul for Service Discovery on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure Consul for Service Discovery on RHEL 8

Consul is a distributed service mesh and service discovery tool from HashiCorp that enables services to find each other by name rather than by hard-coded IP addresses and ports. On RHEL 8, Consul is available through the official HashiCorp dnf repository and integrates with systemd for process management. This tutorial covers installing Consul in server […]

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Common Problems 115124

firewalld Rich Rule Works in Runtime but Lost After Reboot

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 9 October 2020 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors & Cross-Refs References & Further […]

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How to Set Up a Load-Balanced PostgreSQL Cluster with Patroni on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up a Load-Balanced PostgreSQL Cluster with Patroni on RHEL 8

Patroni is a Python-based high-availability solution for PostgreSQL that uses a distributed configuration store — in this tutorial, etcd — to manage leader election, automatic failover, and cluster membership. On RHEL 8, both Patroni and etcd are available through the EPEL repository, making the installation straightforward. This guide walks through installing PostgreSQL, etcd, and Patroni, […]

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Common Problems 115129

NetworkManager connection missing after reboot – RHEL 8 Post 005

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 5 October 2020 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors & Cross-Refs References & Further […]

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Common Problems 115093

RHEL 8 cockpit web console unreachable after certificate update

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 5 October 2020 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors & Cross-Refs References & Further […]

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Common Problems 114927

firewalld Rule Added but Port Still Closed

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 5 October 2020 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors & Cross-Refs References & Further […]

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Common Problems 114902

RHEL 8 RPM Database Locked or Corrupted During Package Operations

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 28 September 2020 Affected versions: 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.8 8.9 8.10 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention […]

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