Description of problem:
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UPDATE 27.5.2025:

The same issue also happens on 6.17 and on stream but on these versions just with RHEL10 containers. (found by further investigation of test results on 6.17 and stream)

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With Satellite 6.16 (and 6.17 and stream for RHEL10 containers), when I try to generate a RHCloud report for an organization and then check if the report has properly reported "installed_packages" in it, I fail to do so. (No installed packages are reported)

I fail to do so when the host is a RHEL8 or RHEL9 (RHEL10 container for 6.17 and stream) container, but I am able to get a properly filled report with a standard RHEL host deployment (and curiously, it also works with containerized RHEL7).

Test that found this issue test_rhcloud_inventory_e2e

How reproducible:
Everytime
 

Is this issue a regression from an earlier version:
Yes

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Have a 6.16 or 6.17 satellite

2. Register a containerized RHEL host(s) with insights-client installed

3. In UI go to Configure->RHCloud->Inventory Upload->YOUR_ORG->Generating Tab->Restart (Generates the report)
4. In UI go to Configure->RHCloud->Inventory Upload->YOUR_ORG->Uploading Tab->Download report
5. Check the downloaded report file for "installed_packages"

Actual behavior:
"installed_packages" are not filled in the downloaded report file

Expected behavior:
"installed_packages" should be in the downloaded report file

Additional info:

Interesting part is, that I found a workaround for it to start working, but I have not figured out why is it working.

For the report generation to start working properly (filling "installed_packages" with some data and not leaving it blank) I just need to do

 
podman exec -ti CONTAINER_NAME bash
 
after this step, I redid the steps (Generate, Download and check the report) and the report suddenly contained the "installed_packages"
 

Satellite 6.16 version it was tested on:
satellite-6.16.5.1-1.el9sat.noarch
foreman-3.12.0.8-1.el9sat.noarch
katello-4.14.0-0.1.rc2.el9sat.noarch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 9.5 (Plow)

Satellite 6.17 it was tested on:
satellite-6.17.0-2.el9sat.noarch
foreman-3.14.0.2-1.el9sat.noarch
katello-4.16.0-1.el9sat.noarch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 9.5 (Plow)
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Docker files we are using
RHEL7 container docker file
Insights client version on RHEL7 containers:
Client: 3.1.9
Core: 3.5.0-2
RHEL8 container docker file
Insights client version on RHEL8 containers:
Client: 3.2.2
Core: 3.5.0-2
RHEL9 container docker file
Insights client version on RHEL9 containers:
Client: 3.2.8
Core: 3.5.0-2
RHEL10 container docker file
Insights client version on RHEL10 containers:
Client: 3.10.0
Core: 3.5.2-1