Has anyone run across this error: Cannot run VM. Invalid time zone for given OS type. The OS type for these VMs is set to Linux Other. They were all exported from an Ovirt 3.2 cluster and are being reimported into an Ovirt 3.3 cluster. None of these VMs will boot. We also can't delete them because delete protection is enabled and we can't edit the VM to turn off delete protection. Does anyone know what this error means exactly and how to fix it? Thanks, Dan

Hi, I'm a little surprised by this development technique.

In my world, when you change data formats in a not compatible way you should also write some sort of transition code to convert the old data to the new data format for all possible cases. And if this is not possible for some reason, at least document this prominent in the release notes. In which version did this change occur? With such bad behaviour, I doubt we will ever get to something like a stable release. I'm sorry when I missed the part of the release notes where this is described and I'm happy if I'm totally wrong and just didn't look good enough to find it. Please point me to some docs which mention this behaviour. Am 03.01.2014 10:54, schrieb Patrick Hurrelmann: > Hi Dan, > > I had the very problem myself. The fix for it is quite easy, but > requires manual editing of one database table. > > In table "vm_static" find your non-starting vms (they propably all have > an empty string set as timezone in column "time_zone") and update that > column to null. There was a recent change in the timezone code and it > now fails when the timezone is an empty string, but works fine if it null. > > Regards > Patrick >

On 3 Jan 2014, at 15:04, Itamar Heim wrote: > On 01/03/2014 12:22 PM, Sven Kieske wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm a little surprised by this development technique. > > its not a development technique. its a bug in upgrade or export/import of the change to the much more powerful config file based OsInfo implementation in 3.3. > though i thought we already fixed it. > > michal/roy - isn't this fixed already? It is fixed for a long time. I think it's a TZ problem, not really osinfo. I may not recall this correctly but I think the problematic code wasn't even released, it was broken just for couple of weeks, that's why I'm curious what is the exact release where it was exported to confirm it's not related to osinfo unification of "Other". > > >> >> In my world, when you change data formats in a not compatible way >> you should also write some sort of transition code to >> convert the old data to the new data format for all possible >> cases. >> >> And if this is not possible for some reason, at least document >> this prominent in the release notes. >> >> In which version did this change occur? >> >> With such bad behaviour, I doubt we will ever get to something >> like a stable release. >> >> I'm sorry when I missed the part of the release notes where this >> is described and I'm happy if I'm totally wrong and just didn't >> look good enough to find it. Please point me to some docs which >> mention this behaviour. >> >> Am 03.01.2014 10:54, schrieb Patrick Hurrelmann: >>> Hi Dan, >>> >>> I had the very problem myself. The fix for it is quite easy, but >>> requires manual editing of one database table. >>> >>> In table "vm_static" find your non-starting vms (they propably all have >>> an empty string set as timezone in column "time_zone") and update that >>> column to null. There was a recent change in the timezone code and it >>> now fails when the timezone is an empty string, but works fine if it null. >>> >>> Regards >>> Patrick >>> >> >

On Mon 06 Jan 2014 12:24:53 AM IST, Roy Golan wrote: > On Fri 03 Jan 2014 04:20:19 PM IST, Michal Skrivanek wrote: >> >> On 3 Jan 2014, at 15:04, Itamar Heim wrote: >> >>> On 01/03/2014 12:22 PM, Sven Kieske wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I'm a little surprised by this development technique. >>> >>> its not a development technique. its a bug in upgrade or >>> export/import of the change to the much more powerful config file >>> based OsInfo implementation in 3.3. >>> though i thought we already fixed it. >>> >>> michal/roy - isn't this fixed already? >> >> It is fixed for a long time. I think it's a TZ problem, not really >> osinfo. >> I may not recall this correctly but I think the problematic code >> wasn't even released, it was broken just for couple of weeks, that's >> why I'm curious what is the exact release where it was exported to >> confirm it's not related to osinfo unification of "Other". >> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> In my world, when you change data formats in a not compatible way >>>> you should also write some sort of transition code to >>>> convert the old data to the new data format for all possible >>>> cases. >>>> >>>> And if this is not possible for some reason, at least document >>>> this prominent in the release notes. >>>> >>>> In which version did this change occur? >>>> >>>> With such bad behaviour, I doubt we will ever get to something >>>> like a stable release. >>>> >>>> I'm sorry when I missed the part of the release notes where this >>>> is described and I'm happy if I'm totally wrong and just didn't >>>> look good enough to find it. Please point me to some docs which >>>> mention this behaviour. >>>> >>>> Am 03.01.2014 10:54, schrieb Patrick Hurrelmann: >>>>> Hi Dan, >>>>> >>>>> I had the very problem myself. The fix for it is quite easy, but >>>>> requires manual editing of one database table. >>>>> >>>>> In table "vm_static" find your non-starting vms (they propably all >>>>> have >>>>> an empty string set as timezone in column "time_zone") and update >>>>> that >>>>> column to null. There was a recent change in the timezone code and it >>>>> now fails when the timezone is an empty string, but works fine if >>>>> it null. >>>>> >>>>> Regards >>>>> Patrick >>>>> >>>> >>> >> > > Not an osinfo issue, this is a bug in input validation. and here is > the fix [1] > [1] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/22989

> > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users also as a quick workaround: psql engine postgres -c "update vm_static set time_zone = NULL where time_zone = ''; " _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users