Getting an error while doing Initialise MAAS on RHEL

[root@maas ~]# snap version
snap 2.61.2-0.el7
snapd 2.61.2-0.el7
series 16
rhel 7.8
kernel 3.10.0-1127.el7.x86_64
[root@maas ~]#

[root@maas ~]# snap install maas
2024-03-11T12:40:56Z INFO Waiting for automatic snapd restart…
maas (3.4/stable) 3.4.0-14321-g.1027c7664 from Canonical✓ installed

[root@maas ~]# maas init region+rack --database-uri “postgres://maas:maas@localhost/maasdb”
MAAS URL [default=http://xx.xxx.x.xxx:5240/MAAS]: http://xx.xxx.x.xxx:5240/maas
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/snap/maas/32469/bin/maas”, line 8, in
sys.exit(main())
File “/snap/maas/32469/lib/python3.10/site-packages/maascli/init.py”, line 39, in main
options.execute(options)
File “/snap/maas/32469/lib/python3.10/site-packages/maascli/snap.py”, line 481, in call
raise exc
File “/snap/maas/32469/lib/python3.10/site-packages/maascli/snap.py”, line 478, in call
self.handle(options)
File “/snap/maas/32469/lib/python3.10/site-packages/maascli/snap.py”, line 741, in handle
self._finalize_init(mode)
File “/snap/maas/32469/lib/python3.10/site-packages/maascli/snap.py”, line 754, in _finalize_init
perform_work(
File “/snap/maas/32469/lib/python3.10/site-packages/maascli/snap.py”, line 441, in perform_work
t.start()
File “/usr/lib/python3.10/threading.py”, line 935, in start
_start_new_thread(self._bootstrap, ())
RuntimeError: can’t start new thread
[root@maas ~]#

Please use ubuntu, we don’t support rhel for hosting maas region or maas rack. MAAS can be hosted only on ubuntu and can only deploy rhel on machines

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Thanks @r00ta for quick response. I’ll do it on ubuntu.

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