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

[Gene Cooper <gcooper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi again Alex,

To answer your question about how I performed the CLI updates, I just 
used the 'normal' procedure (paraphrasing):
wget files to root's home dir
patch upload (all three hotfixes 1, 2 and 4 in order)
patch apply (I did do all three at the same time one after the other)
reboot

I wasn't in front of the boxes and had to walk into the datacenter (our 
offices are also in the datacenter) in order to see the locked splash 
screen.  The hardware 'looked' quiescent.
I never considered it might have been a (looong) delayed boot.

Thanks,

G

On 09/23/2013 08:48 AM, Alex Brett 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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