VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle UI not available to login post applying the Product Support Pack
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VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle UI not available to login post applying the Product Support Pack

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Article ID: 345977

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Products

VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

  • To be able to successfully apply the product support packs on the VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle.


Symptoms:
  • VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle UI not available to login post applying the Product Support Pack.
  • Issue is same no matter which support pack you apply.
  • The application server comes up and allows log in via vSphere console or SSH. The page just gives a message of 'Download Logs' after trying to start the services:

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  • Bootstrap logs shows below error:
2023-10-05 08:40:24,282 __main__ - INFO:zip created successfully
2023-10-05 08:40:24,361 __main__ - INFO:Response: <Response [200]>
2023-10-05 08:40:24,361 __main__ - INFO:password update is successful
2023-10-05 08:40:24,361 __main__ - INFO:in inventory operation
2023-10-05 08:40:24,362 __main__ - INFO:invoking bulk operation
2023-10-05 08:40:24,362 __main__ - ERROR:Exception while running bootstrap script
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/lib/vrlcm/insert.py", line 429, in <module>
    inventoryoperation(sys.argv[1],sys.argv[2])
  File "/var/lib/vrlcm/insert.py", line 153, in inventoryoperation
    postbulkfunction (hostname+str(inventory_data['url']),scriptpath+str(inventory_data['file']),scriptpath,str(inventory_data['url'])+str(inventory_data['file']) )
  File "/var/lib/vrlcm/insert.py", line 94, in postbulkfunction
    if postcall(url,contents) :
  File "/var/lib/vrlcm/insert.py", line 30, in postcall
    b64Val = base64.b64encode(usrPass)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/base64.py", line 58, in b64encode
    encoded = binascii.b2a_base64(s, newline=False)
TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
2023-10-05 08:40:24,363 __main__ - INFO:file removed /var/lib/vrlcm/INPROGRESS

 

 


Environment

VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.x

Cause

  • The problem is caused by python version used by VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle. We had to revert to the default Python version for the appliance = 2.7.17

Resolution

Note: Please revert to the snapshot and perform the below workaround. 

Workaround:

  • The workaround is to revert to the default Python version for the appliance = 2.7.17
  • Steps:
  1. Take snapshot of Aria Suite Lifecycle appliance.
  2. SSH to vRSLCM as root user.
  3. Execute below commands:

unlink /usr/bin/python
ln -sf /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/python
python -c 'import platform; print(platform.python_version())'

  1. It should show version of python as 2.7.17.
  2. Retry applying pspak.

 

 

Additional Information

Impact/Risks:
  • PSPAK updates will fail if not fixed.