Troubleshooting
Problem
PowerVC 2.0 installation may fail on RHEL 8.5 Operating System
Symptom
When PowerVC 2.0 installer is run on RHEL 8.5, it may fail with the below mentioned error
The Linux distribution on this system is not supported.
The following distributions are supported:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 8.2 or later
The following distributions are supported:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 8.2 or later
Cause
PowerVC 2.0 install support for RHEL 8.5 is not enabled
Environment
PowerVC 2.0 and RHEL 8.5 Operating system
Resolving The Problem
1) Extract PowerVC 2.0 installer tar file
2) Make following change in /powervc-2.0.0.0/lib/prereq.sh script
Update line number 139
From
/usr/bin/rpm -q --qf "%{version}" redhat-release | /usr/bin/grep -q '^8.[01234]' && return 0
to
/usr/bin/rpm -q --qf "%{version}" redhat-release | /usr/bin/grep -q '^8.[012345]' && return 0
Update line number 139
From
/usr/bin/rpm -q --qf "%{version}" redhat-release | /usr/bin/grep -q '^8.[01234]' && return 0
to
/usr/bin/rpm -q --qf "%{version}" redhat-release | /usr/bin/grep -q '^8.[012345]' && return 0
3) Run PowerVC 2.0 installer.
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Document Information
Modified date:
31 January 2022
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