[ovirt-users] Unable to upgrade ovirt-engine 3.5.5 to 3.6.1 on EL6

[Martin Perina]

Hi,

please make sure that on your machine you installed correct oVirt
repositories [1]. slf4j package is available for EL6 in oVirt 3.6
repo [2].


Martin Perina

[1] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/yum-repo/ovirt-release36.rpm
[2] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.6/rpm/el6/noarch/slf4j-1.7.7-1.el6.noarch.rpm


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frank Wall" <fw at moov.de>
> To: "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi at redhat.com>
> Cc: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 5, 2016 5:47:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Unable to upgrade ovirt-engine 3.5.5 to 3.6.1 on EL6
> 
> On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 05:37:08PM +0200, Yedidyah Bar David wrote:
> > Perhaps to aid debugging you can try this, but _do_not_ press Enter:
> > 
> > yum --disableplugin=versionlock update ovirt-engine
> > 
> > Kill it (or reply 'no').
> > 
> > What does it output?
> 
> Basically the same dependency error. I've attached the full output to this
> e-mail.
> 
> To answer your other questions:
> 
> > 16:43 <didi> fraenki: what happens when you try yum update slf4j?
> 
> It is not currently installed (on oVirt 3.5.5) and only the inappropiate
> version
> is available:
> 
> # yum --showduplicates list slf4j
> [...]
> Available Packages
> slf4j.noarch       1.5.8-8.el6              centos-base
> 
> 
> > 16:44 <didi> fraenki: also for vdsm-jsonrpc-java
> 
> # yum update vdsm-jsonrpc-java
> [...]
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package vdsm-jsonrpc-java.noarch 0:1.0.15-1.el6 will be updated
> --> Processing Dependency: vdsm-jsonrpc-java < 1.1.0 for package:
> ovirt-engine-backend-3.5.5-1.el6.noarch
> ---> Package vdsm-jsonrpc-java.noarch 0:1.1.5-1.el6 will be an update
> --> Processing Dependency: slf4j >= 1.6.1 for package:
> vdsm-jsonrpc-java-1.1.5-1.el6.noarch
> [...]
> Error: Package: vdsm-jsonrpc-java-1.1.5-1.el6.noarch (ovirt-3.6)
>            Requires: slf4j >= 1.6.1
>            Available: slf4j-1.5.8-8.el6.noarch (centos-base)
>                slf4j = 1.5.8-8.el6
> [...]
> 
> Very similar (of not the same) output to the `yum update ovirt-engine`
> command.
> 
> Where should I get "slf4j >= 1.6.1" from? It does not seem to be available
> from
> the "centos-base" repository (there's only slf4j = 1.5.8-8.el6 available):
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/Packages/
> 
> > 16:46 <didi> fraenki: if it still fails for you after the usual things,
> > e.g.
> > yum clean all, check repos etc., I'll try to reproduce
> 
> Yeah, tried this. Already wiped my repos and reinstalled ovirt-release36.rpm.
> 
> FWIW, I've noticed that a more recent slf4j is available from the SL6 repo
> at:
> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6x/external_products/maven/$basearch/
> But I fear that this will break things in the long run (and it would replace
> several other packages as well, very likely to break ovirt-engine
> completely).
> 
> > > I'd switch my Hosted-Engine VM to EL7 if it wouldn't be such a pain. The
> > > only
> > > "Upgrade Guide" I could find for Engine VM is this:
> > > http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_Hosted_Engine_Backup_and_Restore
> > > No fun. :(
> > 
> > This one does not deal with upgrading the engine OS. For that Sandro
> > started [1] but gave up after having some issues.
> 
> Yeah, I wasn't really expecting that an in-place upgrade EL6->EL7 would work
> in this case. That's why I was thinking about the Backup/Restore method...
> 
> 
> Regards
> - Frank
> 
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