Hi All,
I wanted to update my vCenter appliance from 2a to 3a but it keeps failing without a clear reason.
I update with CDROM because I don't have a good experiance with the update over internet.
My output of software-packages.log
2017-04-11T11:34:48.101 [5278]DEBUG:root:Test transaction failed to update packages
Exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/applmgmt/support/scripts/software-packages.py", line 191, in install
thirdParty=args.thirdParty)
File "/usr/lib/applmgmt/base/py/vmware/vherd/base/software_update.py", line 1540, in installPackagesEP
_runTestTransaction(pkgType, percent=50)
File "/usr/lib/applmgmt/base/py/vmware/vherd/base/task_manager.py", line 158, in trackedfunc
value = func(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/applmgmt/base/py/vmware/vherd/base/software_update.py", line 967, in _runTestTransaction
raise GenericException("Test transaction failed to update packages")
GenericException: Test transaction failed to update packages
2017-04-11T11:34:48.101 [5278]DEBUG:vmware.vherd.base.software_update:Iniitialized software update state
Staged status = True
Staged packages:
{}
Installed packages:
{}
Payload packages:
{} MetaData:
{}
2017-04-11T11:34:48.101 [5278]DEBUG:vmware.vherd.base.software_update:Run command: ['/bin/umount', '/mnt/iso-contents']
2017-04-11T11:34:49.101 [5278]INFO:vmware.vherd.base.software_update:ISO unmounted successfully
2017-04-11T11:34:49.101 [5278]DEBUG:vmware.vherd.base.software_update:Run command: ['/bin/rm', '-rf', '/mnt/iso-contents']
2017-04-11T11:34:49.101 [5278]DEBUG:vmware.vherd.base.software_update:/mnt/iso-contents directory deleted successfully
2017-04-11T11:34:49.101 [5278]DEBUG:vmware.vherd.base.software_update:Run command: ['/bin/rm', '-rf', '/var/software-packages']
2017-04-11T11:34:49.101 [5278]DEBUG:vmware.vherd.base.software_update:/var/software-packages directory deleted successfully
2017-04-11T11:34:49.101 [5278]DEBUG:vmware.vherd.base.software_update:Destroyed software update state
2017-04-11T11:34:49.101 [5278]DEBUG:task_manager:UpdateTask: status=failed, percent=100, message=Install Failed
2017-04-11T11:34:49.101 [5278]DEBUG:task_manager:Opening file /etc/applmgmt/appliance/tasks.conf with lock
2017-04-11T11:34:49.101 [5278]DEBUG:task_manager:File /etc/applmgmt/appliance/tasks.conf locked
2017-04-11T11:34:49.101 [5278]DEBUG:task_manager:File /etc/applmgmt/appliance/tasks.conf unlocked
2017-04-11T11:34:49.101 [5278]DEBUG:vmware.vherd.base.software_update:Destroyed software update state
My avalable storage;
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 11G 8.9G 1.4G 87% /
proc 0 0 0 - /proc
sysfs 0 0 0 - /sys
udev 7.9G 168K 7.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 7.9G 40K 7.9G 1% /dev/shm
devpts 0 0 0 - /dev/pts
/dev/sda1 128M 38M 84M 31% /boot
/dev/mapper/core_vg-core 50G 718M 47G 2% /storage/core
/dev/mapper/log_vg-log 9.9G 6.8G 2.6G 73% /storage/log
/dev/mapper/db_vg-db 9.9G 1.7G 7.8G 18% /storage/db
/dev/mapper/dblog_vg-dblog 5.0G 603M 4.1G 13% /storage/dblog
/dev/mapper/seat_vg-seat 25G 16G 7.5G 69% /storage/seat
/dev/mapper/netdump_vg-netdump 1001M 18M 932M 2% /storage/netdump
/dev/mapper/autodeploy_vg-autodeploy 9.9G 151M 9.2G 2% /storage/autodeploy
/dev/mapper/invsvc_vg-invsvc 9.9G 394M 9.0G 5% /storage/invsvc
none 0 0 0 - /var/lib/ntp/proc
I don't know what more to send, so please let me know If you need more information.
I already rebooted my server several times but didn't resolve.
Best Regards
Dave Greebee