After I patched VCSA 7.x U2 to VCSA 7.x U3h, I encountered this warning message in the VCSA Console -> "vmdir.password is not set; aborting installation"
To fix please follow below steps
- Login to VCSA SSH
- Delete/move the file /etc/vmware/cap/cap-firstboot.sh (removing this file will prevent the issue from occurring in the future) -> Run this command mv /etc/vmware/cap/cap-firstboot.sh /tmp
- Delete/move the file /var/log/firstboot/failed -> Run this command mv /var/log/firstboot/failed /tmp
- Create a new file "succeeded" under the directory /var/log/firstboot -> Run this command touch /var/log/firstboot/succeeded
- Take a backup of rpmInstall.json file -> cp /var/log/firstboot/rpmInstall.json /var/log/firstboot/rpmInstall.json.BAK
- Replace contents of /var/log/firstboot/rpmInstall.json with the below:
- To update the content of rpmInstall.json
- Run this command vi rpmInstall.json
- Type i to edit the content.
- Delete the original content and replace of the below parameters
{
"progress": 100,
"question": null,
"status": "success",
"progress_message": {
"localized": "",
"translatable": ""
},
"error": null,
"warning": [],
"start_time": "2021-06-13T14:28:50.278Z",
"info": [],
"end_time": "2021-06-13T14:47:07.972Z"
}Note: Start and End times set to the estimated date the upgrade occurred.
- Press ESC on the keyboard
- To save type w;! and to exit type :q!
- You are all good now.
Note: If the message still shows on the console, execute this /usr/lib/applmgmt/dcui/notify script to immediately remove the message from DCUI.
Note: Reboot is not required
Workaround.
To prevent the issue from occurring:
If planning to update from 70U2 or if already updated but have yet to reboot the vCenter appliance, delete the file /etc/vmware/cap/cap-firstboot.sh following the steps below:
- Login into putty/ssh session to VC
- Delete the file /etc/vmware/cap/cap-firstboot.sh
VMware Reference: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/84259