vRSLCM 8.16.0 Blackstone-spring service fails to start: blackstone-spring service: Control process exited, code-exited status-1

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

Blackstone-spring service fails to start with the below error in the journalctl.log:

"blackstone-spring service: Control process exited, code-exited status-1"

 

Environment

vRSLCM 8.16.0

Cause

1: The file "launch-blackstone-spring"  at location:   /etc/rc.d/init.d/  had an incorrect entry for the version 8.16.18.0  (incorrect versioning)

it should have been 8.16.0 since that was the current running version of vRSLCM:

Example of file:

 

2: The jar files within  /opt/vmware/vlcm/blackstone/spring common show the incorrect version within their naming, versus the current running version of vRSLCM:

Example from lab:

Resolution

1:  SSH to the vRSLCM appliance

2:  Edit using vi file  /etc/rc.d/init.d/launch-blackstone-spring 

 "VERSION" line to match the version that vRSLCM is currently running  (Example:  VERSION=8.18.0)

3:   Re-name the two files within /opt/vmware/vlcm/blackstone/spring common

so that their "version" matches what vRSLCM is currently running and what is showing

in  /etc/rc.d/init.d/launch-blackstone-spring "VERSION" line:

Example:   blackstone-external-8.18.0.jar