Accessing the VAMI returns error "Update installation in progress" - but did not do any updates...?

[JonesRG]

trying to access https://FQDN:5480 returns "Upgrade - Stage 2: Data transfer and vCenter Server setup is in progress"

Version 7.0.3 #19480866

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/67179?lang=en_US did not help

[ptarnawski]

Are you the only admin? maybe someone strat the upgrade process.?

[JonesRG]

Hi - yes I would be the one to start update processes...

[ptarnawski]

Can you access your vCenter normally? Can you ssh to your vCenter and check services? 

[JonesRG]

yes everything seems normal - just wanted to check scheduled backup and then saw
"update in progress"

service-control --status
Running:
applmgmt lookupsvc lwsmd observability observability-vapi pschealth vlcm vmafdd vmcad vmdird vmonapi vmware-analytics vmware-certificateauthority vmware-certificatemanagement vmware-cis-license vmware-content-library vmware-eam vmware-envoy vmware-hvc vmware-infraprofile vmware-perfcharts vmware-pod vmware-postgres-archiver vmware-rhttpproxy vmware-sca vmware-sps vmware-statsmonitor vmware-stsd vmware-topologysvc vmware-trustmanagement vmware-updatemgr vmware-vapi-endpoint vmware-vmon vmware-vpostgres vmware-vpxd vmware-vpxd-svcs vmware-vsan-health vmware-vsm vsphere-ui vstats vtsdb wcp
Stopped:
vmcam vmware-imagebuilder vmware-netdumper vmware-rbd-watchdog vmware-vcha vmware-vdtc

[ptarnawski]

That is very strange,

Can you check /var/log/vmware/applmgmt/software-packages. log file ?

[JonesRG]

no such file or directory....but did 
/var/log/vmware/applmgmt ]# tail vami.log
2022-09-21T08:13:20.476 [17406]INFO:cgiutil:upgrade-import: , ,
2022-09-21T08:13:20.476 [17406]INFO:cgiutil:firstboot: succeeded, 100, Starting VMware Performance Charts...
2022-09-21T08:13:20.476 [17406]INFO:cgiutil:Response :
<response><locale>en-US</locale><requestid>getStatus</requestid><value actions="enabled" id="status">firstboot</value><value actions="enabled" id="progress">100</value><value actions="enabled" id="details">Starting VMware Performance Charts...</value></response>
2022-09-21T08:15:13.794 [19321]INFO:cgiutil:id=getStatus, action=query
2022-09-21T08:15:14.50 [19321]INFO:cgiutil:flow is: ['upgrade-import', 'firstboot', 'upgrade-export', 'upgrade-precheck']
2022-09-21T08:15:14.51 [19321]INFO:cgiutil:upgrade-import: , ,
2022-09-21T08:15:14.51 [19321]INFO:cgiutil:firstboot: succeeded, 100, Starting VMware Performance Charts...
2022-09-21T08:15:14.51 [19321]INFO:cgiutil:Response :
<response><locale>en-US</locale><requestid>getStatus</requestid><value actions="enabled" id="status">firstboot</value><value actions="enabled" id="progress">100</value><value actions="enabled" id="details">Starting VMware Performance Charts...</value></response>

and

tail applmgmt.log
2022-09-21T13:41:22 PM UTC [15150]INFO:vcenter.deploy_status:adding phase firstboot to completed list
2022-09-21T13:41:22 PM UTC [15150]INFO:vcenter.fileutil:read_json_file: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/log/vmware/upgrade/import.json'
2022-09-21T13:41:22 PM UTC [15150]INFO:vcenter.deploy_status:upgrade-import: task status is: {progress : None, result : None, description : {id : com.vmware.vcenter.deploy.task.description.import, default_message : Import data into appliance., args : [], params : None, localized : None}, service : , operation : , parent : None, target : None, status : PENDING, cancelable : False, error : None, start_time : None, end_time : None, user : None}
2022-09-21T13:41:22 PM UTC [15150]INFO:vcenter.deploy_status:adding phase upgrade-import to pending list
2022-09-21T13:41:22 PM UTC [15150]INFO:vcenter.deploy_status:task firstboot is: SUCCEEDED
2022-09-21T13:41:22 PM UTC [15150]INFO:vcenter.deploy_status:Current task is not last task, set status to RUNNING.
2022-09-21T13:41:22 PM UTC [15150]INFO:vcenter.deploy_status:Top level status: RUNNING
2022-09-21T13:41:28 PM UTC [15150]INFO:vmware.vherd.transport.ssh_access_collector:[Unit Test] renewed 50 credits to post event
2022-09-21T13:41:28 PM UTC [15150]INFO:vmware.vherd.transport.ssh_access_collector:No sshinfo.log detected, Exit.
2022-09-21T13:41:29 PM UTC [15150]DEBUG:vmware.vherd.transport.authentication:Authentication Server Secret Renewed.

[ptarnawski]

Well, looks like someone start upgrade. 

I am not too sure if you can stop it, or reboot VCSA from SSH. 

Maybe open support ticket. 

[JonesRG]

Hah! solved with https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/67179?lang=en_US  - the #touch part

forgot to navigate to /var/log/vmware/upgrade - DOH!

[ptarnawski]

So you stopped installation, however, the question remains open why it was in that state.