[Users] Strange UI bug: tab "VM" unusable / oVirt 3.3.1+

[Michal Skrivanek]

On Dec 9, 2013, at 17:20 , Tomas Jelinek <tjelinek at redhat.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Frank Wall" <fw at moov.de>
>> To: "Tomas Jelinek" <tjelinek at redhat.com>
>> Cc: "oVirt Users" <users at ovirt.org>
>> Sent: Monday, December 9, 2013 3:56:21 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Users] Strange UI bug: tab "VM" unusable / oVirt 3.3.1+
>> 
>> Hi Tomas,
>> 
>> On 2013-12-09 14:22, Tomas Jelinek wrote:
>>> 2: spiceSupportMatrix.get(osId) returned null. [...]
>>> I would guess this is the issue. To verify this could you please paste
>>> here the content of all .../osinfo.conf.d/*.properties and also the
>>> result of
>>> "select os, vm_name from vm_static" DB query so we can find which
>>> value is not there.
>> 
>> you're right. I did a lookup in the database and compared the values
>> to the entries in /etc/ovirt-engine/osinfo.conf.d/*.properties.
>> I noticed that the "os" ID 6 is assigned multiple times, but not
>> defined in a .properties file (anymore).
>> 
>> A quick check in the Admin Portal confirms this:
>> open "Edit Virtual Machine" => Operating System: null
>> 
>> I can't remember what "os" ID 6 was in previous releases. Anyway,
>> since I used this to classify my FreeBSD VMs, I've setup a new
>> file defining it:
>> 
>> # cat /etc/ovirt-engine/osinfo.conf.d/freebsd.properties
>> # FreeBSD(6, OsType.BSD, false),
>> os.freebsd.id.value = 6
>> os.freebsd.name.value = FreeBSD
>> os.freebsd.derivedFrom.value = other
>> os.freebsd.description.value = FreeBSD Operating System
>> os.freebsd.family.value = BSD
>> 
>> This fixed my issue, but I still would like to know why ID 6
>> was silently removed in 3.3.1 :-) Maybe it should be re-added
>> in 3.3.2 to avoid this UI breakage for other people.
> 
> Awesome!
> 
> So I had a look into the history of the osinfo-defaults.properties and the "6" used to be "Other":
> # Other(6, OsType.Other, false)
> os.Other.id.value = 6
> os.Other.name.value = Other
> os.Other.derivedFrom.value = Unassigned 
> 
> and it disappeared in this patch:
> http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/16679/11
> 
> @Roy:
> Any reason this has been removed?

The removal is correct, we have two different "Other" types (Other, Unassigned) which didn't make sense, but this [1] upgrade script should have taken care of that 
Is it possible the upgrade went wrong?

Thanks,
michal

[1] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/16679/11/packaging/dbscripts/upgrade/03_03_0660_alter_os_type_unassigned_to_other.sql

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>> 
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>> 
>> Thanks
>> - Frank
>> 
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