[ovirt-users] failing update ovirt-engine on centos 7

[Michal Skrivanek]

> On 26 May 2016, at 18:17, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Il 26/Mag/2016 12:50, "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi at redhat.com> ha scritto:
>> 
>> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Pavel Gashev <Pax at acronis.com> wrote:
>>> I had an issue with updating to 3.6.6. There were errors during
> engine-setup:
>>> 
>>> [ ERROR ] Yum Non-fatal POSTUN scriptlet failure in rpm package
> ovirt-vmconsole-1.0.0-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>> 
>>> [ ERROR ] Yum Transaction close failed: Traceback (most recent call
> last):   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/otopi/miniyum.py", line
> 778, in endTransaction     self.processTransaction()   File
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/otopi/miniyum.py", line 1064, in
> processTransaction     _('One or more elements within Yum transaction
> failed') RuntimeError: One or more elements within Yum transaction failed
>>> 
>>> ovirt-vmconsole has the following uninstall script:
>>> postuninstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
>>> if [ "$1" -ge "1" ]; then
>>>        semodule -i
> "/usr/share/selinux/packages/ovirt-vmconsole/ovirt_vmconsole.pp"
>>> fi
>>> 
>>> In other words you can't update if you have SELINUX disabled.
>>> 
>>> The workaround is the following:
>>> ln -fs /bin/true /usr/sbin/semodule
>> 
>> Thanks for the report. Adding Francesco.
>> 
> 
> Please open a bz on ovirt-vmconsole.

Running with selinux disabled is not recommended nor supported.
It should be easy to skip over that problem, but in general this is not something you should hit in normal environment

Thanks,
michal

> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 26/05/16 08:43, "users-bounces at ovirt.org on behalf of Yedidyah Bar
> David" <users-bounces at ovirt.org on behalf of didi at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 9:11 PM, Fabrice Bacchella
>>>> <fabrice.bacchella at orange.fr> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Le 25 mai 2016 à 17:25, Kapetanakis Giannis <bilias at edu.physics.uoc.gr>
> a
>>>>> écrit :
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 25/05/16 17:59, Fabrice Bacchella wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have an dedicated machin to run ovirt-engine (not hosted). It's an
> up to
>>>>> date centos 7.2.1511
>>>>> 
>>>>> I installed ovirt 3.6.6 a few weeks ago (May 10 17:56:44 tells me
> yum.log)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Now, I'm trying a full yum update and getting :
>>>>> # yum update
>>>>> ....
>>>>> 
>>>>> Error: Package: ovirt-engine-tools-3.6.5.3-1.el7.centos.noarch
> (@ovirt-3.6)
>>>>>           Requires: ovirt-engine-tools-backup = 3.6.5.3-1.el7.centos
>>>>>           Removing:
> ovirt-engine-tools-backup-3.6.5.3-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>>>> (@ovirt-3.6)
>>>>>               ovirt-engine-tools-backup = 3.6.5.3-1.el7.centos
>>>>>           Updated By:
> ovirt-engine-tools-backup-3.6.6.2-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>>>> (ovirt-3.6)
>>>>>               ovirt-engine-tools-backup = 3.6.6.2-1.el7.centos
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Follow 3.6.6 release notes to update:
>>>>> https://www.ovirt.org/release/3.6.6/
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> yum install
> http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/yum-repo/ovirt-release36.rpm
>>>>> yum update ovirt\*setup\*
>>>>> and then run
>>>>> engine-setup to update the rest of the packages.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have seen this doc.
>>>>> 
>>>>> It updates a few components and what about the others ? The readme
> talk
>>>>> about running engine-setup, but not that it will updates other
> packages. I
>>>>> thought that ovirt-engine is for engine setup, not upgrading.
>>>> 
>>>> Right.
>>>> 
>>>> After engine-setup finishes, you should 'yum update' to update the rest