[Users] Wondering about updating ovirt from 3.0 to 3.1

[Steve Gordon]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason Brooks" <jbrooks at redhat.com>
> To: "Steve Gordon" <sgordon at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Ofer Schreiber" <oschreib at redhat.com>, users at 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