Symptoms
- UCS Blades booting from FCoE/iSCSI SAN revert to a previous state after reboot.
- The ESXi 5.0 Bootbank points to /tmp and/or no altbootbank exists.
- You are unable to install VMware Tools in virtual machines.
- You are unable to patch/update ESXi 5.0.
- A task fails with:
The host returns esxupdate error code: 15. The package manager transaction is not successful.
Could not install patches on - In the esxupdate.log, you see messages similar to:
esxupdate: ERROR: InstallationError: ('Current bootbank /bootbank is not verified and most likely a serious problem was encountered during boot, it is not safe to continue altbootbank install. bootstate is 2, expected value is 0.')
esxupdate: HostImage: DEBUG: Live image has been updated but /altbootbank image has not. This means a reboot is not safe.
esxupdate: HostImage: INFO: Installerwas not initiated - reason: altbootbank is invalid: Error in loading boot.cfg from bootbank /bootbank: Error parsing bootbank boot.cfg file /bootbank/boot.cfg: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/bootbank/boot.cfg'
Cause
Resolution
This is a known issue in VMware ESXi 5.0.x. A resolution for this issue is being evaluated for inclusion in a future release.
If you are experiencing this issue, open a Support Request.
To work around this issue, reinstall from local storage.
Based on VMware KB 2031315
