xoa-updater --upgrade fails and configuration questions

[gr85z]

Tried via WEBUI and CLI and get same results.
Have restarted the service just to see if maybe something was stuck.
Using the "Latest" channel.

sudo xoa-updater --upgrade
latest channel selected
New versions available:
  xoa-updater 0.32.0
Downloading packages...
  xoa-updater ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. ok ✔
Saving current updater version in /usr/local/lib/node_modules/xoa-updater/dist-1604936964526 ...ok ✔
Installing packages...

✖ Command failed: npm uninstall -g --silent xoa-updater

Ran xoa check and getting the following.

sudo xoa check
✔ Node version
✔ xo-server config syntax
✔ Disk space for /
✔ Disk space for /var
✔ Native SMB support
✔ Fetching VM UUID
✔ Appliance registration
✔ XOA version
✔ Internet connectivity
✖ npm version: 6.14.8
 does not satisfies ^4.6
✖ XOA status: not up-to-date, please run xoa-updater

At this point I about ready to just rebuild the whole system and start fresh.
I was not able to get turn key page to work. But that could be I didn't get the initial OS build done correctly either with webservices etc...
If I do rebuild is there a way to save any configurations of the systems I already have in XO?
I have been through the build documentation, does XO care what the underlying OS is?
Is there any specific OS configurations that have to be done prior to installing XO?
I haven't found any documentation as of yet about prerequisites if someone can point me to that would be helpful.

Our overall goal is not to rely on xen-center and have XO as our central control since it is Web based.

Thanks

[olivierlambert]

Hi,

It failed because you changed the npm version manually. You can indeed re-deploy a fresh XOA, export the configuration and import it on the new one.