[Users] Trouble upgrading

Fri Nov 22 12:52:28 EST 2013

On 11/22/2013 11:18 PM, Bob Doolittle wrote:
>
> On 11/22/2013 12:21 PM, Vijay Bellur wrote:
>> On 11/22/2013 06:23 PM, Bob Doolittle wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11/22/2013 06:54 AM, Kristaps wrote:
>>>> Bob Doolittle <bob at ...> writes:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 11/21/2013 12:57 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
>>>>>> On 11/21/2013 07:38 PM, Bob Doolittle wrote:
>>>>>>> On 11/21/2013 12:00 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 11/21/2013 06:32 PM, Bob Doolittle wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Yay!
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Congratulations to all of the oVirt team.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I am having trouble locating upgrade instructions, however.
>>>>>>>>> There's
>>>>>>>>> nothing in the release notes.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I discovered through trial-and-error that running "engine-setup"
>>>> again
>>>>>>>>> handles upgrade of the Engine.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> But I don't know how to upgrade my RH 6.4 KVM host. When I try to
>>>>>>>>> run
>>>>>>>>> "yum update" it fails due to dependency errors notably in:
>>>>>>>>> glusterfs
>>>>>>>>> qemu
>>>>>>>>> vdsm
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> can you please include the yum output log?
>>>>>>> Sorry yes. Attached are three outputs. First my repolist. Then yum
>>>>>>> update with no options, and yum update with --skip-broken (so you
>>>>>>> can
>>>>>>> see the lurking issues masked by the first failure).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It appears that the glusterfs issue is due to a newer version
>>>>>>> offered
>>>> by
>>>>>>> rhel-x86_64-server-6: glusterfs-3.4.0.36rhs-1.el6.x86_64. This has
>>>>>>> dependencies which conflict with the version provided by
>>>>>>> ovirt-stable
>>>>>>> (and glusterfs-epel).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It looks like there was a large update to the Red Hat repo last
>>>>>>> night
>>>>>>> that has caused conflicts with ovirt-stable.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Note I can get it to the point where it's willing to install
>>>>>>> packages
>>>> if
>>>>>>> I specify --skip-broken and also --exclude vdsm-python-4.12.1, but
>>>>>>> that's a bit too scary for me without checking first.
>>>>>> oh, you may caught rhel repo in middle of a refresh - try again in a
>>>>>> few hours first, but could be the refresh may cause an issue we'd
>>>>>> need
>>>>>> to resolve.
>>>>> Not sure why I'm the only person reporting this (am I the only person
>>>>> who runs RH 6 on their KVM hosts who has tried upgrading??), but the
>>>>> problem has not resolved.
>>>>>
>>>>> What's the next step? Does it need a bug opened?
>>>>>
>>>>> Let me know if I can provide any more information.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>       Bob
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>       Bob
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> and also to a multilib version error due to vdsm-python 4.12 and
>>>> 4.13.
>>>>>>>>> What's the proper upgrade procedure for a Host?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>       Bob
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 11/21/2013 10:43 AM, Kiril Nesenko wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> The oVirt development team is very happy to announce the general
>>>>>>>>>> availability of oVirt 3.3.1 as of November 21th 2013. This
>>>>>>>>>> release
>>>>>>>>>> solidifies oVirt as a leading KVM management application, and
>>>>>>>>>> open
>>>>>>>>>> source alternative to VMware vSphere.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> oVirt is available now for Fedora 19 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
>>>> 6.4
>>>>>>>>>> (or similar).
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> See release notes [1] for a list of the new features and bug
>>>>>>>>>> fixed.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> [1] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.3.1_release_notes
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> - Kiril
>>>>>>>>>>
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>>>> I'am experiencing same exact issue with upgrade on RHEL 6.4 and vdsm
>>>> for
>>>> oVirt installed.
>>>>
>>>> However, I did a little searching, and for me it seems it is like this:
>>>> vds requires these glsuterfs packages to have the latest version:
>>>>
>>>> glusterfs
>>>> glusterfs-api
>>>> glusterfs-cli
>>>> glusterfs-fuse
>>>> glusterfs-libs
>>>>
>>>> In RHEL repository are these packages are with version 3.4.0.36rhs-
>>>> 1.el6.x86_64 EXCEPT for glusterfs-cli, which RHEL repo doesn't have at
>>>> all.
>>>>
>>>> oVirt repo has all those packages with version 3.4.0-8.el6.x86_64,
>>>> which is
>>>> older than RHEL repo packages.
>>>>
>>>> Hence, there is conflict. During vdsm update or even installation on
>>>> RHEL
>>>> 6.4 it tries to install the latest of all those packages. Looks likes
>>>> this:
>>>>
>>>> glusterfs-3.4.0.36rhs-1.el6.x86_64
>>>> glusterfs-api-3.4.0.36rhs-1.el6.x86_64
>>>> glusterfs-fuse-3.4.0.36rhs-1.el6.x86_64
>>>>     requires: glusterfs-libs-3.4.0.36rhs-1.el6.x86_64
>>>>
>>>> glusterfs-cli-3.4.0-8.el6.x86_64
>>>>     requires: glusterfs-libs-3.4.0-8.el6.x86_64
>>>>
>>>> While this is not fixed, in my opinion, ovirt installation from
>>>> repository
>>>> on RHEL 6.4 is essentially broken.
>>>>
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>>>
>>> Thank you for confirming that this is indeed an issue. I was beginning
>>> to think it was just me somehow. I have opened
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1033587 to track this.
>>>
>>> I agree it seems to be a very big issue for RHEL 6 users. And we can't
>>> simply uninstall glusterfs-cli, as Vijay suggested, because it is
>>> required by vdsm. So I'm not seeing any easy workaround at the moment.
>>
>> Would it be possible to update to glusterfs-3.4.1 by adding this repo?
>>
>> http://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/3.4/3.4.1/RHEL/glusterfs-epel.repo
>>
>>
>> Once the glusterfs packages are updated, the yum upgrade shouldn't
>> break as glusterfs-3.4.0 is available in RHEL 6.
>>
>> -Vijay
>>
>
> Vijay,
>
> Do you know why the glusterfs folks felt compelled to do a minor update
> of 3.4.0 to 3.4.1 utilizing an entirely new repository, instead of
> reusing the old repository with new versioning? That would have saved a
> lot of trouble... This is the sort of thing yum is designed to take care
> of, but not if you switch repos.
>

Adding Kaleb and Niels who will be able to answer this better.

Thanks,
Vijay