Re: [Xen-API] Is XenServer 6.2 as Broken as it Seems?

[Gene Cooper <gcooper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Chris, and thanks.

I too had heard it was a bug, but four Hotfixex later, it's still 
present?  I purposefully waited a while before testing...
Thanks again,

G

On 09/23/2013 09:13 AM, Christopher J Petrolino wrote:
> I can confirm the licensing issue when installed in xcp mode. I believe
> I read somewhere that it was a bug.
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Alex Brett <Alex.Brett@xxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:Alex.Brett@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>      > I installed the servers in XCP mode.
>      >
>      > 1) After the base install, which went perfectly, I created a pool
>     and found
>      > that I could not add the second server to the pool ans saw this
>     error:
>      >
>      > There was a problem with the license daemon (v6d). Is it running?
>      >
>
>     Can you clarify what you mean by 'in XCP mode' - XenServer 6.2 is
>     fully open source, and is by default in a state equivalent to XCP,
>     so doesn't require any additional steps.
>
>     In particular, if you did alter anything to do with the licensing
>     side of things, that could cause the error you got with v6d.
>
>      > 2)  I couldn't install any updates (which sounded important).  In
>     the latest (6.2
>      > Hotfix 3) XenCenter showed the two servers grayed-out.  So I
>     installed the
>      > Hotfixes 1, 2 and 4 via the command line as I have done on
>     previous versions
>      > of XenServer and rebooted...and lost contact with the servers.  They
>      > wouldn't boot up again...stuck on the graphical progress screen
>     with no way
>      > to ESCape out.
>      >
>
>     In the default XenServer 6.2 state, installing updates through
>     XenCenter is the only feature that requires purchase of support from
>     Citrix, so this is why it was greyed out in XenCenter.  From the CLI
>     however it should 'just work' - can you confirm how you installed
>     them (i.e. what CLI commands you used etc), and also just to verify
>     this wasn't a delayed boot, i.e. you did wait a reasonable period of
>     time before deciding it was stuck when booting?
>
>     Alex
>
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