Re: [Users] Wondering about updating ovirt from 3.0 to 3.1

From: "Steve Gordon" <sgordon(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Jason Brooks" <jbrooks(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: "Ofer Schreiber" <oschreib(a)redhat.com&gt;, users(a)ovirt.org Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 8:01:05 PM Subject: Re: [Users] Wondering about updating ovirt from 3.0 to 3.1 ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jason Brooks" <jbrooks(a)redhat.com&gt; > To: "Steve Gordon" <sgordon(a)redhat.com&gt; > Cc: "Ofer Schreiber" <oschreib(a)redhat.com&gt;, users(a)ovirt.org > Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 6:50:24 PM > Subject: Re: [Users] Wondering about updating ovirt from 3.0 to 3.1 > > > >>> > >>> What's the most sane upgrade advice we can offer to oVirt 3.0 > >>> users? > >>> > >>> Jason > >> > >> the "sane" upgrade path (nothing is sane in Fedora 16 to Fedora > >> 17 > >> upgrade): > >> 1. run engine-cleanup, do not drop DB > >> 2. remove all ovirt-engine rpms (including the JBoss one) > >> - please not that this will remove the PKI, so you'll have to > >> re-install your hosts > >> 3. Do the fedora upgrade > >> 4. install ovirt-engine rpms > >> 5. run engine-setup > >> - Give same passwords to the DB/admin user > >> > >> in this case, engine-setup should upgrade the db, and not > >> install > >> it. > >> we didn't tried this approach yet, so I'll appreciate any input. > > > > Can someone please try this out and verify it works? I'd like to > > include this process in the release notes. > > I've been testing this path today. I get all the way to step 5, > running > engine-setup, and the script fails out after asking for my existing > db > password. The script asks for my password, over and over (I tried > entering it like 25 times) and keeps on asking until I hit enter > with > a > blank password a couple of times, at which point it fails out. > > Jason Hi Jason, Any chance you could upload the engine-setup log somewhere for us to take a look at?

Thanks, Steve