Upgrading the RHV environment to 4.2 is failing with error "Failed to execute stage 'Misc configuration': fe_sendauth: no password supplied"

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Issue

  • Upgrading the RHV environment is failing with the error below.
2018-08-27 02:33:44,466-0400 DEBUG otopi.ovirt_engine_setup.engine_common.database database.tryDatabaseConnect:401 Connection failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/ovirt-engine/setup/ovirt_engine_setup/engine_common/database.py", line 397, in tryDatabaseConnect
    transaction=False,
  File "/usr/share/ovirt-engine/setup/ovirt_engine_setup/engine_common/database.py", line 256, in execute
    database=database,
  File "/usr/share/ovirt-engine/setup/ovirt_engine_setup/engine_common/database.py", line 176, in connect
    dbname=database,
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/psycopg2/__init__.py", line 164, in connect
    conn = _connect(dsn, connection_factory=connection_factory, async=async)
OperationalError: fe_sendauth: no password supplied

Environment

  • Red Hat Virtualization 4.2.

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