Details
Summary
Symptom
When installing ESX Server 3.0.x patches, if the parent directory contains spaces (for example, 30x all ), the installation fails with the following error message:
INFO: No repository URL specified, going with file:/root/302 all/ESX-1002975
DEBUG: Lock file /var/run/esxupdate.pid created with PID 1385
DEBUG: Options {'url': 'file:/root/302 all/ESX-1002975', 'verbosity': 10, 'enableRollback': 0} Command update
DEBUG: Entering [ 15:40:04 01/17/08] [ConfigState ]
INFO: Configuring...
DEBUG: Attempting to retrieve descriptor.xml from [file:/root/302 all/ESX-1002975/]
DEBUG: rpms created = 3 for tag='rpmlist'
DEBUG: Host version [3.0.2] release [52542]
DEBUG: LogCommand(grep vmware-vmx /proc/vmware/sched/cpu)
DEBUG: Configure yum.conf to use repositories
DEBUG: Saving descriptor to file /etc/vmware/patchdb/ESX-1002975.xml
DEBUG: Adding entry with key [/current]
DEBUG: Entering [ 15:40:04 01/17/08] [PrepState ]
INFO: Preparing to install VMware ESX Server ESX-1002975...
DEBUG: Prepare pending package list...
DEBUG: Matching package name 2 and NAVR 0
DEBUG: LogCommand(yum info)
ERROR: Error (1) executing [yum info]
using ftp, http[s], or file for servers, Aborting - all/ESX-1002975
DEBUG: Saving descriptor to file /etc/vmware/patchdb/ESX-1002975.xml
DEBUG: Adding entry with key [/current]
DEBUG: Entering [ 15:40:05 01/17/08] [PrepFailed ]
DEBUG: Install cleanup...
DEBUG: LogCommand(rm -f /etc/vmware/esx.conf.WRITELOCK)
DEBUG: LogCommand(rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*)
DEBUG: Lock file /var/run/esxupdate.pid deleted
DEBUG: Final state: PrepFailed
Solution
To work around this issue, ensure that the name of the parent directory contains no spaces. If the directory name contains two or more words, the words can be seperated by underscores.
