[Users] Wondering about updating ovirt from 3.0 to 3.1

[Jason Brooks]

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

Here it is: http://fpaste.org/m3rt/

Jason

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve
>