ISO Undetected During VDP 6.1.6 Upgrade

With the release of VDP 6.1.6 comes more issues with upgrade, specially the main one; ISO is not detected in the vdp-configure page. You might see something like:


On the command line, you will see the ISO is already mounted:

root@Jimbo:~/#: df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2        32G  5.9G   25G  20% /
udev            1.9G  148K  1.9G   1% /dev
tmpfs           1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1       128M   37M   85M  31% /boot
/dev/sda7       1.5G  158M  1.3G  12% /var
/dev/sda9       138G  5.1G  126G   4% /space
/dev/sdd1       256G  208M  256G   1% /data02
/dev/sdc1       256G  208M  256G   1% /data03
/dev/sdb1       256G  4.3G  252G   2% /data01
/dev/sr0        4.1G  4.1G     0 100% /mnt/auto/cdrom

If it is not, use the below command to mount:

# mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/auto/cdrom

If it still does not help, then proceed further.

For all upgrade issues, we look at avinstaller.log located at  /usr/local/avamar/var/avi/server_log/
However, I noticed here that the last update time on the log was Nov 22

-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root  1686327 Nov 22 21:12 avinstaller.log.0

This said the avinstaller script is not updating the log. A restart of avinstaller using the below command will not help either:

# avinstaller.pl --restart

The process is running fine though:

root@Jimbo:/usr/local/avamar/var/avi/server_log/#: avinstaller.pl --test
Avistart process: 31230

INFO: AVI is running.

For this, we will have to rename the web server folder "jetty-0.0.0.0-7543-avi.war-_avi-any-" located under:

# cd /usr/local/avamar/lib/jetty/work

To rename use:

# mv jetty-0.0.0.0-7543-avi.war-_avi-any- jetty-0.0.0.0-7543-avi.war-_avi-any-old

Then restart the avinstaller script using avinstaller.pl --restart

Now the avinstaller.log is updated:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root  1750549 Jan 10 19:38 avinstaller.log.0

And the ISO is detected in the vdp-configure page.


If this still does not work, then we will have to look into the avinstaller.log which can have a ton of causes. Best to reach out to VMware.

Hope this helps.