On 3/02/2026 11:02, Andrea Chierici wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to update my old 4.5.5 system to the latest one, right now
with no luck: I am writing to share some experience and hopefully to
be pointed to the correct process.
My system runs entirely on centos8, version is 4.5.5-1.el8, engine is
on a vm hosted on vmware, no self hosted engine.
The idea is to install a new engine vm, with almalinux10, import the
backup taken from the old engine, and restore the system. After that I
would upgrade all the hosts, one at a time.
I tried today the first time, unsuccesfully. Here are all the steps:
1. take the almalinux10 vm, install the ovirt software with these
commands:
dnf copr enable -y ovirt/ovirt-master-snapshot rhel-10-x86_64
Why would you use the daily builds? Use the stable 4.5.7 release!
dnf install -y ovirt-release-master epel-release
dnf install -y ovirt-engine
Operation ended succesfully
2. import the backup taken from current 4.5.5 engine:
engine-backup --mode=restore --scope=all --file=/backup.tar.gz
--log=/tmp/restore.log --restore-permissions
Operation ended successfully
3. Run engine-setup, here is the output (removed fqdn for privacy):
--== CONFIGURATION PREVIEW ==--
Host FQDN : xxxxxxx.yyy.it
Firewall manager : firewalld
Update Firewall : True
Set up Cinderlib integration : False
Engine database host : localhost
Engine database port : 5432
Engine database secured connection : False
Engine database host name validation : False
Engine database name : engine
Engine database user name : engine
Engine installation : True
PKI organization : yyy.it
Set up ovirt-provider-ovn : True
DWH installation : True
DWH database host : localhost
DWH database port : 5432
DWH database secured connection : False
DWH database host name validation : False
DWH database name : ovirt_engine_history
DWH database user name : ovirt_engine_history
Backup DWH database : False
Grafana integration : True
Grafana database user name :
ovirt_engine_history_grafana
Configure VMConsole Proxy : True
Configure WebSocket Proxy : True
Please confirm installation settings (OK, Cancel) [OK]:
[ INFO ] Cleaning async tasks and compensations
[ INFO ] Unlocking existing entities
[ INFO ] Checking the Engine database consistency
[ INFO ] Stage: Transaction setup
[ INFO ] DNF Repository
copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:ovirt:ovirt-master-snapshot is listed
more than once in the configuration
[ INFO ] Stopping engine service
[ INFO ] Stopping ovirt-fence-kdump-listener service
[ INFO ] Stopping dwh service
[ INFO ] Stopping vmconsole-proxy service
[ INFO ] Stopping websocket-proxy service
[ INFO ] Stage: Misc configuration (early)
[ INFO ] Stage: Package installation
[ INFO ] Stage: Misc configuration
[ INFO ] Upgrading CA
[ INFO ] Configuring WebSocket Proxy
[ INFO ] Backing up database localhost:engine to
'/var/lib/ovirt-engine/backups/engine-20260127180343.q9xj84af.dump'.
[ INFO ] Creating/refreshing Engine database schema
[ INFO ] Creating/refreshing DWH database schema
[ INFO ] Updating OVN SSL configuration
[ INFO ] Updating OVN timeout configuration
[ INFO ] Creating/refreshing Engine 'internal' domain database schema
Unregistering existing client registration info.
Updating the engine FQDN in the Data Warehouse Database.
[ INFO ] Generating post install configuration file
'/etc/ovirt-engine-setup.conf.d/20-setup-ovirt-post.conf'
[ INFO ] Stage: Transaction commit
[ INFO ] Stage: Closing up
--== SUMMARY ==--
[ INFO ] Starting dwh service
[ INFO ] Starting Grafana service
[ ERROR ] Failed to execute stage 'Closing up': Failed to start
service 'grafana-server'
[ INFO ] Stage: Clean up
Log file is located at
/var/log/ovirt-engine/setup/ovirt-engine-setup-20260127180313-lps532.log
[ INFO ] Generating answer file
'/var/lib/ovirt-engine/setup/answers/20260127180410-setup.conf'
[ INFO ] Stage: Pre-termination
[ INFO ] Stage: Termination
[ ERROR ] Execution of setup failed
The log provided is so verbose that I can't spot the possible problem.
I wonder, anyway, if this procedure is correct or whether I should do
something different. For example I noticed that I am not asked to
configure keycloak, since in the current production system I have
freeipa.
Without logs it's hard to spot the issue :)
When its an install without Keycloak it does NOT ask to upgrade to
Keycloak by default, see
https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-engine-keycloak/blob/master/keycloak_usage.md
Thanks for the possible help,
Andrea
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