Aria Automation upgrade fails with LCMVRACONFIG50008/LCMVRAVACONFIG90030 - the updatecli.log shows: "installing package ____ needs __MB on the / filesystem", exit code 65024 "[Exit Code: 1] VAMI has exited with error code: 1. Upgrade has failed"

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• The /var/log/vmware/prelude/upgrade.log contains errors similar to
  

  [ERROR] VAMI overall upgrade has failed.
  [ERROR] Upgrade failed on this node. Monitoring on this node will be deactivated.

• The installation request fails in Aria Suite Lifecycle with message: LCMVRACONFIG50008 or LCMVRAVACONFIG90030

Error code: LCMVRAVACONFIG90030
vRealize Automation VA Upgrade Status Check failed
Upgrade on vRealize Automation VA <node> with state fatal

• The  /opt/vmware/var/log/vami/updatecli.log contains errors similar to

installing package photon-repos-4.0-1.ph4.noarch needs 1234MB on the / filesystem
installing package man-pages-5.03-3.ph4.noarch needs 1234MB on the / filesystem
installing package iana-etc-2.29-5.ph4.noarch needs 1321MB on the / filesystem
installing package grub2-theme-4.0-1.ph4.noarch needs 1010MB on the / filesystem
30/05/2024 13:03:16 [ERROR] Failed with exit code 65024

[INFO] Update status: Error while running installation tests
[ERROR] Failure: updatecli exiting abnormally

 

Environment

• Aria Automation 8.x
• Aria Orchestrator 8.x

Cause

• Non-standard files left on the root partition, / of Aria Automation are causing the disk to overfill during upgrade.
• Not enough space available on one or all the partitions. 

Resolution

1. Identify files consuming space on Partition: "/".

These commands may help in identifying which non-standard files are filling up the disk.

1. Which are the biggest files on disk:
   find / -xdev -size +100M -exec du -sh '{}' \; | sort -rh
2. Where is space consumed under the root directory?
   du -hax -d1 / | sort -rh

Please store any files you need for Automation on another partition than root, and remove when no longer needed.

large files under /opt/images-repo/layers, /usr/bin and /ballast/ are expected to be there and must not be removed

If this still does not free the required amount of space, please look to increase the root (/) partition disk from vCenter using the steps found in the following Documentation: increase vRealize Automation appliance disk space.

2. On each Aria Automation node, check the disk size by running the command: "vracli disk-mgr"

All partition should have > 35% to 40% Space available. 

Also, Make sure that system requirements for targeted version as per: System Requirements

Additional Information

• Please See the following KB 369983 for the same overall error but for package conflicts:
  Aria Automation upgrade fails with updatecli.log "error: Failed dependencies", exit code 65024 "[Exit Code: 1] VAMI has exited with error code: 1. Upgrade has failed" (KB 369983)