I had one user report back that his update failed. I looked at the VAMI web management page and it had no properties about the current appliance version. The update tab that usually displays Vendor, Appliance Name, Appliance Version, Last Check, etc were all missing. Digging further on the machine itself, there was an empty manifest-installed.xml in /opt/vmware/var/lib/vami/update/data/info.
The updatecli.log shows:
25/07/2011 21:19:27 11778 updateStatus:UA_CLI.cpp:45 (updatecli) [INFO] Update status: Done VMware tools reconfiguration
25/07/2011 21:19:27 11778 updateStatus:UA_CLI.cpp:45 (updatecli) [INFO] Update status: Running finalizing installation
25/07/2011 21:19:27 11778 executeFile:UA_CLI.cpp:86 (updatecli) [INFO] Running /opt/vmware/var/lib/vami/update/data/job/2/manifest_update
25/07/2011 21:19:28 11778 updateStatus:UA_CLI.cpp:45 (updatecli) [INFO] Update status: Done finalizing installation
25/07/2011 21:19:28 11778 updateStatus:UA_CLI.cpp:45 (updatecli) [INFO] Update status: Update completed successfully
25/07/2011 21:19:28 11778 main:UA_CLI.cpp:225 (updatecli) [INFO] Install Finished
However the typical final line on the updated version and description wasn't in the log.
Has anyone experienced this? Any idea why manifest-installed.xml would get an empty file?