Bug 1162445

Summary: [3.5-7.0] Still prompt "Major version upgrades are unsupported, .." info when selecting "reinstall" option
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager Reporter: haiyang,dong <hadong>
Component: ovirt-nodeAssignee: Anatoly Litovsky <tlitovsk>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity: urgent Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 3.5.0CC: aburden, cshao, ecohen, fdeutsch, gklein, gouyang, hadong, huiwa, iheim, juwu, leiwang, lsurette, scohen, tlitovsk, ycui
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Target Release: 3.5.0   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
Whiteboard: node
Fixed In Version: Doc Type: Known Issue
Doc Text:
Previously, the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor failed to interpret the major version of an image and attempts to reinstall the Hypervisor would fail with an error. This has now been corrected so that the Hypervisor accepts a major version mismatch and reinstalls as expected.
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Last Closed: 2015-02-11 21:05:51 UTC Type: Bug
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attached Screenshot for rhevh 7 welcome page.png none

Description haiyang,dong 2014-11-11 05:22:18 UTC
Created attachment 956098 [details]
attached Screenshot for rhevh 7 welcome page.png

Description of problem:
At first clean install rhev-hypervisor6-6.6-20141107.0.iso, then boot from pxe server,
select "rhev-hypervisor7-7.0-20141107.0" profile and add "reinstall" into this profile.
But it still prompt "Major version upgrades are unsupported,uninstall existing version first" info when selecting "reinstall" option(seen rhevh 7 welcome page.png)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rhev-hypervisor7-7.0-20141107.0
ovirt-node-3.1.0-0.25.20141107gitf6dc7b9.el7.noarch

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. At first clean install rhev-hypervisor6-6.6-20141107.0.iso
2. then boot from pxe server,
select "rhev-hypervisor7-7.0-20141107.0" profile and add "reinstall" into this profile.

Actual results:
After step2, it still prompt "Major version upgrades are unsupported,uninstall existing version first" info in welcome page when selecting "reinstall" option

Expected results:
it prompt "Install Hypervisor 7.0-20141107.0.el7ev" info in welcome page when selecting "reinstall" option

Additional info:

Comment 1 Ying Cui 2014-11-11 05:34:54 UTC
Let's consider to fix it in rhev 3.5 beta phase.

Comment 2 Ying Cui 2014-11-11 09:18:37 UTC
reinstall does not work in rhevh 7.0 build. so urgent for this bug.

Comment 3 Fabian Deutsch 2014-11-12 10:24:04 UTC
I was able to reproduce this bug with ISOs only:

1. Install latest 6.6 image
2. After reboot, use 7.0 image and boot with "reinstall" option
3. TUI installer prompts "Major version upgrades are unsupported"

Comment 4 Ying Cui 2014-11-20 03:55:21 UTC
the patch is merged yet on Nov 18, and the test build is rhev-hypervisor7-7.0-20141119.0

Comment 13 haiyang,dong 2014-12-17 06:58:46 UTC
Test version:
rhev-hypervisor7-7.0-20141212.0.iso
ovirt-node-3.1.0-0.34.20141210git0c9c493.el7.noarch

Test Steps:
1. At first clean install rhev-hypervisor6-6.6-20141107.0.iso
2. then boot from pxe server,
select "rhev-hypervisor7-7.0-20141212.0.iso" profile and add "reinstall" into this profile.

Test results:
it prompt "Install Hypervisor 7.0-20141212.0.el7ev" info in welcome page when selecting "reinstall" option.

So this bug has been fixed, changed the status into "VERIFIED".

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2015-02-11 21:05:51 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2015-0160.html