vamicli update - check: failure: obvious editing error analysis.  Please contact your dealer.

To better understand the process of update, I built two versions of my virtual device.  I installed the one 'old' and I'm doing it to check updates.  When I check for updates (with the web interface or the vamicli interface, below), I get the same error:

vamicli update - check failure began: obvious editing error analysis.  Please contact your dealer.

Now, I kind of cheated on the repository.  On my VMware Studio camera, I use the web server integrated and created a directory in/opt/vmware/www/ISV to use as a custodian, because I'm just trying to test such things out in my lab.

Having done this, I can see in the newspapers of apache2 on my VMware Studio device it is manifest, indeed, read (I turned on the access_log):

10.86.150.84---19/Aug/2010:18:50:35 + 0000-"GET /ISV/repository/manifest/manifest-latest.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 66821

The build process had no problem putting a bunch of files in the repository, and it seems that the 'old' device becomes the file downloaded correctly.

But he doesn't seem to like the file...

Other things to note: I'm doing this in a laboratory without access to the internet and if no proxy either.  I was wondering if there were files that had to be pulled from the internet open to allow analysis to what appears to be the python .xml, but through some hacks that I don't even want to discuss, I do not see any other access on the web of the device when it tries to check the updates.

I tried to strace the vamicli-update, but... There are a lot of things out there, and I can't find clearly something wrong.  Missing a lot of things, but the actual analysis (if it is really what is a failure) is far from clear.

I found where the error message comes (with ropes), it's:

libcmpiVAMI_Update_Provider.so

which is not a surprise.  I can't find the source for this anywhere on the VMware Web site, so I don't know exactly what goes wrong.

It is difficult for me to believe that he is really a parse error - somehow, I imagine that something in the environment is simply not true and that is causing the parser does not properly or maybe he failed even to the analysis.

But if anyone has some answers (or ideas of what to try next), I would of course like to hear.  Thank you!

The list of RPM packages installed in the virtual machine is analyzed once the build is complete, then the manifest is generated from that.  In this way, all additional packages which is drawn in ISO, etc. are included.

-Matt

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