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Chapter 5. Known Issues

If you upgrade VMs on Azure cloud launched from the "RHEL for SAP" (a discontinued offer) image of "gen1", and see an error similar to the following, ensure that the /etc/hosts file does not contain a line X.X.X.X rhui*.microsoft.com. This is an artifact IP address of Azure RHUI Content Distribution Server (CDS) instance to fetch the content from.

Error: 

Stderr: Host and machine ids are equal (hash): refusing to link journals
            Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-eus-rhui-rpms', ignoring this repo.
            Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'microsoft-azure-rhel8-sapapps', ignoring this repo.
            Error: Unable to find a match: rhui-azure-rhel8-sapapps
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or 

Stderr: Host and machine ids are equal (hash): refusing to link journals
            Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-e4s-rhui-rpms', ignoring this repo.
            Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'microsoft-azure-rhel8-sap-ha', ignoring this repo.
            Error: Unable to find a match: rhui-azure-rhel8-sap-ha
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