Errors while upgrading openvstorage-sdm package

[kinvaris]

root@cmp02:~# apt-cache policy openvstorage-sdm
openvstorage-sdm:
  Installed: 1.6.3-rev.352.76af109-1
  Candidate: 1.6.3-rev.367.5996435-1
  Version table:
     1.6.3-rev.367.5996435-1 0
        500 http://apt.openvstorage.org/ unstable/main amd64 Packages
 *** 1.6.3-rev.352.76af109-1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
root@cmp02:~# apt-get install openvstorage-sdm
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  openvstorage-sdm
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 185 not upgraded.
Need to get 75.3 kB of archives.
After this operation, 16.4 kB of additional disk space will be used.
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  openvstorage-sdm
Install these packages without verification? [y/N] y
Get:1 http://apt.openvstorage.org/ unstable/main openvstorage-sdm amd64 1.6.3-rev.367.5996435-1 [75.3 kB]
Fetched 75.3 kB in 0s (640 kB/s)            
(Reading database ... 144348 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../openvstorage-sdm_1.6.3-rev.367.5996435-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking openvstorage-sdm (1.6.3-rev.367.5996435-1) over (1.6.3-rev.352.76af109-1) ...
Setting up openvstorage-sdm (1.6.3-rev.367.5996435-1) ...
dpkg: error processing package openvstorage-sdm (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 openvstorage-sdm
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[kinvaris]

maybe related to https://github.com/openvstorage/framework/issues/938 ?

[khenderick]

Might indeed be related. Since #938 is already fixed, I suspect this installation had an older sdm still installed. Please verify updating from a more recent sdm package.

[JeffreyDevloo]

Steps

• Reverted back to snapshot with older packages (see package information)
• Updated ovs framework to latest one to avoid https://github.com/openvstorage/alba-asdmanager/issues/126
• Updated SDM

Output

All updates were successful.

Test result

Test passed.

Setup

Hyperconverged setup

• Three nodes with each three disks for the back-end

Package information

• openvstorage 2.7.3-rev.4059.6d404af-1 amd64 openvStorage
• openvstorage-backend 1.7.3-rev.721.b4724e5-1 amd64 openvStorage Backend plugin
• openvstorage-backend-core 1.7.3-rev.721.b4724e5-1 amd64 openvStorage Backend plugin core
• openvstorage-backend-webapps 1.7.3-rev.721.b4724e5-1 amd64 openvStorage Backend plugin Web Applications
• openvstorage-cinder-plugin 1.2.2-rev.38.dcc3b76-1 amd64 OpenvStorage Cinder plugin for OpenStack
• openvstorage-core 2.7.3-rev.4059.6d404af-1 amd64 openvStorage core
• openvstorage-hc 1.7.3-rev.721.b4724e5-1 amd64 openvStorage Backend plugin HyperConverged
• openvstorage-sdm 1.6.3-rev.372.0cfe8a2-1 amd64 Open vStorage Backend ASD Manager
• openvstorage-webapps 2.7.3-rev.4059.6d404af-1 amd64 openvStorage Web Applications