Aria Operations upgrade fails at Stage 6 with "FailedThe PAK action "new_validate" script "source ./pak_python_wrapper.sh validate.py" failed"

Products

• VCF Operations

Issue/Introduction

• When attempting to upgrade Broadcom Aria Operations from version 8.18.6 to 8.18.7, the process fails during the software upgrade package (PAK) pre-validation stage. The upgrade wizard displays a failure at Stage 6 of the new_validate sequence.
  
  
  
  
• Review of the /storage/log/vcops/log/pakManager/vcopsPakManager.root.query.log file on the failing node exposes the following signature entries:
  
  "apply_adapter_exit_code": "", 
"resource_arguments": [
 "new_validate",
 "source ./pak_python_wrapper.sh validate.py"
],
"resource_message_key": "pak_manager.script_failed",
"validate_exit_code": "3",
"validate_result": "check_disk_space_needed"

Environment

VMware Aria Operations 8.18.x

Cause

The validation script drops out because the /storage/db partition has insufficient free capacity to perform the essential file extraction, caching, and state verification operations required for the 8.18.7 update package. The wrapper script aborts installation dynamically if partition utilization on critical targets is near exhaustion (e.g., at 98% space usage).

Resolution

To address the disk space issue and proceed with the PAK application. Follow KB 318408 to resolve the space issues on Aria Operations node.