+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1100249 +++ Description of problem: install older ovirt-guest-agent e.g. from the ubuntu ppa via apt-get into debian 7 wheezy (same problem should affect ubuntu as well) alter something in the /etc/ovirt-guest-agent.conf switch now to the new repo on opensuse.org provided by evilissimo it installs succesfully, however the new ovirt-guest-agent.conf does not overwrite the altered ovirt-guest-agent.conf. instead, it gets written to disk as: ovirt-guest-agent.conf.dpkg-dist result: new ovirt-guest-agent can not be started with old config file output of: service ovirt-guest-agent status [FAIL] ovirt-guest-agent is not running ... failed! service ovirt-guest-agent start no output at all service ovirt-guest-agent status [FAIL] ovirt-guest-agent is not running ... failed! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.0.9.1-1.1 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: ovirt-guest-agent can't be started with old config Expected results: ovirt-guest-agent can be started with old config Additional info: this may be related to the new option in the conf file: report_num_cpu_rate = 60 workaround: backup your tweaks to the agent conf remove the old agent conf and the .dpkg-dist file reinstall ovirt-guest-agent apply your changes again to the new conf file --- Additional comment from Sven Kieske on 2014-05-22 07:17:50 EDT --- I can't select the proper version for the guest-agent in bugzilla, the versions you can select are for engine only, this should also affect different sub-components of ovirt with different versioning schemes like vdsm, too.
ok, runs ok with old config. # stat /etc/ovirt-guest-agent.conf File: `/etc/ovirt-guest-agent.conf' Size: 1437 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: fd00h/64768d Inode: 18153 Links: 1 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: 2014-05-28 10:23:02.284572065 +0200 Modify: 2014-05-28 10:22:58.059561858 +0200 Change: 2014-05-28 10:22:58.103561963 +0200 # grep rhevm-guest-agent-common /var/log/yum.log May 28 10:21:36 Installed: rhevm-guest-agent-common-1.0.8-10.el6ev.noarch May 28 10:33:25 Updated: rhevm-guest-agent-common-1.0.9-3.el6ev.noarch # ps aux | grep ovirt 175 3161 0.4 1.5 522292 15536 ? Ssl 11:33 0:05 /usr/bin/python /usr/share/ovirt-guest-agent/ovirt-guest-agent.py -p /var/run/ovirt-guest-agent.pid -d root 3268 0.0 0.0 103252 824 pts/1 R+ 11:56 0:00 grep ovirt # rpm -ql rhevm-guest-agent-common | grep '/usr.*conf$' /usr/share/ovirt-guest-agent/default-logger.conf /usr/share/ovirt-guest-agent/default.conf
Closing as part of 3.4.0