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Auto / Manual Patching tool for Citrix XenServer Boxes
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Error: Failed to obtain HOSTUUID from XE CLI #70

Closed rainer042 closed 6 years ago

rainer042 commented 6 years ago

Hi,

just tried patcher version 1.6.1 on a XenServer 6.2 as well as on 7.1. On both systems patcher.py is unable to get the host uuid and thus patching fails.

It would be nice if this problem could be fixed.

dalgibbard commented 6 years ago

This is a Xenserver issue where the host reports a hostname different to that of its current on-disk configuration. See: https://github.com/dalgibbard/citrix_xenserver_patcher/issues/64

Please let me know if this does/doesn't resolve the problem :)

rainer042 commented 6 years ago

Thanks for the hint. Since I upgraded my 6.2 installation to 7.1, I was only able to test on 7.1:

I tried the hostnamectl set-hostname fqdn command which did not do the job but had the unpleasant side effect that the hostname as printed by the hostname command is always the fqdn name.

What helped was to set the fqdn of the host in /etc/sysconfig/network by assigning the fqdn to the HOSTNAME variable.

Thanks a lot Rainer

dalgibbard commented 6 years ago

Cool; I'm still yet to replicate this on a freshly provisioned host, and Xenserver's hostname configuration is a bit odd anyway, so will close this with no change on my side :)