Comments on: Pegasus error after installing ESX 3.5 update 1

By: Duncan

Duncan — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:30:37 +0000

haven’t seen this happening but can you check which process is causing this?

By: Andres Martinez

Andres Martinez — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:43:25 +0000

I applied the fix also and after some time the CPU utilization of the service console peaks at 100% all the time.. if I restart the pegasus service it goes back to normal.
I’m still running update 1.. not planning to upgrade to update 2 in the near term

anybody experiencing the same ?

this is the script that I used:

PEGASUS_PATH=/var/pegasus/vmware/install_queue/

cd $PEGASUS_PATH
for queue in `ls ?`
do
echo $queue
CURRENT_FILE=$PEGASUS_PATH$queue’_files/mofs/root/PG_Interop/roleauth-schema.mof’
if [ -f $CURRENT_FILE ] ; then
echo $CURRENT_FILE
sed ‘/#pragma include (“VMware_IdentityMemberOfCollection.mof”)/i\#pragma include (“VMware_Identity.mof”)’ $CURRENT_FILE > /tmp/roleauth-schema.mof
mv /tmp/roleauth-schema.mof $CURRENT_FILE -f
fi

CURRENT_FILE=$PEGASUS_PATH$queue’_files/mofs/root/cimv2/roleauth-schema.mof’
if [ -f $CURRENT_FILE ] ; then
echo $CURRENT_FILE
sed ‘/#pragma include (“VMware_IdentityMemberOfCollection.mof”)/i\#pragma include (“VMware_Identity.mof”)’ $CURRENT_FILE > /tmp/roleauth-schema.mof
mv /tmp/roleauth-schema.mof $CURRENT_FILE -f
fi

CURRENT_FILE=$PEGASUS_PATH$queue’_files/mofs/root/cimv2/VMware_Identity.mof’
if [ -f $CURRENT_FILE ] ; then
echo $CURRENT_FILE
cp $CURRENT_FILE $PEGASUS_PATH$queue’_files/mofs/root/PG_Interop/’
fi
done

#service pegasus restart

By: Joaquin Avellan

Joaquin Avellan — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:45:52 +0000

ESX 3.5 Update 2 will fix the pegasus provider, released July 25th.

By: Duncan Epping

Duncan Epping — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:29:46 +0000

Yeah you can disable it if you can login, try ALT F2 to login. I don’t have access to a 3.5 system at the moment but the pegasus start up can be disabled via chkconfig i guess.

By: mikemcs

mikemcs — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:58:05 +0000

it never finishes, it POSD during the pegasus thing…happens same way after 4 attempted installs.

I would like to just disable it for now to see if that gets me by my POSD…can you tell me how i disable it?

Its been awhile since I played with unix….i am sure it is in a startup file somewhere, and then I can just REM that line that starts the pegasus?

Do i have to install the tools for winscp to work?

By: Duncan

Duncan — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:52:05 +0000

Just wait until it’s finished, it can take up to 10 / 15 minutes but you will get a prompt in the end. I use FASTSCP or WinSCP for copying files. Don’t forget to make the script executable with “chmod 755 “

By: mikemcs

mikemcs — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:43:13 +0000

OR better yet, i understand that can be disabled…how do i disable the pegasus thing?

By: mikemcs

mikemcs — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:55:51 +0000

thanks for offering this info, but i am a newbie…
1. If my esx hangs on the pegasus thing, how do i get to a shell prompt
2. how do i transfer your fix script so i can run it?

By: Brian Wing

Brian Wing — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:38:17 +0000

Sweet! U Rock.

By: Duncan Epping

Duncan Epping — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:38:27 +0000

Thanks for the script! Nice solution.