ESXi upgrade from 5.5 to 6.0U3 issue

[SHG_AJStevens]

Upgraded an ESXi running 5.5 to 6.0 Update 3 (9313334) using HPE custom ISO and after upgrading and rebooting it gives this error message on accessing via web browser:

503 Service Unavailable (Failed to connect to endpoint: [N7Vmacore4Http16LocalServiceSpecE:0x1f05b6b0] _serverNamespace = / _isRedirect = false _port = 8309)

I've restarted the management agents, restarted the host, and I've already looked at the /etc/vmware/rhttpproxy/endpoints.conf file, there's no "/ui" line in there.

It's:

/	local	8309	redirect	allow
/sdk	local	8307	redirect	allow
/clients/clients.xml	local	8309	allow	allow
/vpxa	local	8089	reject	allow
/mob	namedpipe	/var/run/vmware/proxy-mob	redirect	allow
/wsman	local	8889	redirect	allow
/sdkTunnel	namedpipetunnel	/var/run/vmware/proxy-sdk-tunnel	allow	reject
/ha-nfc	local	12001	allow	allow
/nfc	local	12000	allow	allow
/folder	local	8309	redirect	allow
/host	local	8309	redirect	allow
/tmp	local	8309	redirect	allow
/screen	local	8309	redirect	allow
/guestFile	local	8309	redirect	allow
/cgi-bin	local	8309	redirect	allow
/vvold	local	8090	allow	allow
/ticket	tickettunnel	/var/run/vmware/tcket/%1	redirect	allow

Running /etc/init.d/hostd status "hostd is not running", when I start it, it stops again.

Looking in the hostd log, I see a panic line, "errror: N7Vmacore15SystemExceptionE(Host not found (authoritive))"

Any advice on how to get it fixed without having to blow it away and install from scratch?

[SureshKumarMuth]

Could you please post the hostd logs with the backtrace ?

[SHG_AJStevens]

Hi SureshKumarMuthukrishnan​,

Hope this is what you need, attached.

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Only real indication in the log was:

error: N7Vmacore15SystemExceptionE(Host not found (authoritative))

[SHG_AJStevens · Accepted solution]

I managed to solve this myself, if anyone else has this problem, check the /etc/hosts file.

It should be the following, as per (VMware Knowledge Base😞

Verify that the /etc/hosts file is written correctly and has entries similar to:

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 <localhost>.<localdomain> <localhost>
10.0.0.1 <server>.<domain> <server>

But mine was the wrong way round strangely:

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs

# that require network functionality will fail.

127.0.0.1 <localhost> <localhost>.<localdomain>

::1 <localhost> <localhost>.<localdomain>

10.0.0.1 <server> <server>.<domain>

So corrected this and restarted and it's back online now.

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