[Users] Trouble upgrading

[Itamar Heim]

On 11/22/2013 11:21 AM, Vijay Bellur wrote:
> On 11/22/2013 01:00 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
>> On 11/22/2013 06:08 AM, Vijay Bellur wrote:
>>> On 11/22/2013 06:25 AM, Bob Doolittle wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 11/21/2013 07:53 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
>>>>> On 11/22/2013 02:52 AM, Bob Doolittle wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 11/21/2013 07:48 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
>>>>>>> On 11/22/2013 02:33 AM, Bob Doolittle wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> have you tried refreshing your repo / clear yum cache?
>>>>>>> (since glusterfs-3.4.0.36rhs-1.el6 should be in the repo)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I just did "yum clean all; yum update". Same result.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> do you have glusterfs-3.4.0.36rhs-1.el6 in the repo?
>>>>
>>>> Apparently:
>>>>
>>>>> Error: Package: glusterfs-cli-3.4.0-8.el6.x86_64 (@glusterfs-epel)
>>>>>            Requires: glusterfs-libs = 3.4.0-8.el6
>>>>>            Removing: glusterfs-3.4.0-8.el6.x86_64 (@glusterfs-epel)
>>>>>                glusterfs-libs = 3.4.0-8.el6
>>>>>            Updated By: glusterfs-3.4.0.36rhs-1.el6.x86_64
>>>>> (rhel-x86_64-server-6)
>>>>>                Not found
>>>>>            Removing: glusterfs-libs-3.4.0-8.el6.x86_64
>>>>> (@glusterfs-epel)
>>>>>                glusterfs-libs = 3.4.0-8.el6
>>>>>            Updated By: glusterfs-libs-3.4.0.36rhs-1.el6.x86_64
>>>>> (rhel-x86_64-server-6)
>>>>>                glusterfs-libs = 3.4.0.36rhs-1.el6
>>>>>            Available: glusterfs-3.2.7-1.el6.i686 (epel)
>>>>>                glusterfs-libs = 3.2.7-1.el6
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> If you are using EPEL packages to create/run gluster volumes on RHEL
>>> (essentially the server side functionality of gluster), it would be
>>> better to move to GlusterFS 3.4.1 and then try the upgrade.
>>>
>>> If you are not making use of gluster's server side packages, you can
>>> remove glusterfs-cli and related dependencies. If an upgrade is
>>> initiated after that, it should go through.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Vijay
>>
>> doesn't vdsm require vdsm-gluster which requires them?
>
> vdsm requires vdsm-gluster only in gluster, gluster+virt clusters. Hence
> if gluster server side functionality is being exercised, we would need
> to use EPEL packages.
>
> For a virt only cluster, only the client side packages are needed and
> RHEL 6.5 has these packages.

vijay - didn't we add gluster-cli for libgfapi support in core vdsm?