VMware Aria Automation upgrade failure due to corrupt RPM files in VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

• When attempting to upgrade Aria Automation from Aria Suite Lifecycle, the process fails, accompanied by error code LCMVRAVACONFIG90030.
• The following messages are observed in the vami.log file located at /opt/vmware/var/log/vami/ (on Clustered environment) or /opt/vmware/var/log/vami (on one node environment) :

11/03/2024 23:49:03 [INFO] Downloading file. URL: https://<AriaSuiteLifecycleFQDN>/repo/productBinariesRepo/vra/8.16.1/upgrade/update/package-pool/gettext-0.21-3.ph4.x86_64.rpm
11/03/2024 23:49:03 [ERROR] Invalid file size. url=/package-pool/gettext-0.21-3.ph4.x86_64.rpm, downloadsize=0, filesize=2913433
11/03/2024 23:49:03 [ERROR] Setting job error information. jobid=8, errorCode=9, errorString=Error during package download.  Please try again.
11/03/2024 23:49:03 [ERROR] Job <8> failed. Error code:9Error message: Error during package download.  Please try again

• Note: The download size of the package gettext-0.21-3.ph4.x86_64.rpm is observed as 0 in the error message. The package name may vary in different environments.
• Note down the URL highlighted on the logs. If the download size is non zero follow the KB: 345969
• SSH using root into one of the Aria Automation nodes. Running the below command will fetch a zero-kb rpm file from Aria Suite Lifecycle to the current directory. 
  wget --no-check-certificate <URL>
• Note: Replace the URL with the one noted on the logs.
  Example: wget  --no-check-certificate https://<LCM_FQDN>/repo/productBinariesRepo/vra/8.16.1/upgrade/update/package-pool/gettext-0.21-3.ph4.x86_64.rpm

Environment

• VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.x
• VMware Aria Automation 8.x

Cause

• Corrupt rpm file in Aria Suite Lifecycle.

Resolution

• Delete the existing upgrade binary mapping of Aria Automation from Aria Suite Lifecycle. Re-download the upgrade binary mapping once again and retry the upgrade.