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Upgrading Cloud Pak to latest version by skipping the intermediate version fails to generate new install plan

Troubleshooting


Problem

When following the readme file from any corresponding Cloud Pak documentation to upgrade to the latest version by skipping the intermediate versions fails to create a new, and the latest install plan to upgrade the Cloud Pak. This is applicable only if approval strategy is set to Manual

Symptom

To verify if you are experiencing this issue, log into the console and check the catalog-operator pod log in openshift-operator-lifecycle-manager project
 
$ oc logs -n openshift-operator-lifecycle-manager <catalog-operator-pod> | grep "unable
to get installplan from cache"
You see a message similar to:

2022-02-16T18:02:32.250375793Z time="2022-02-16T18:02:32Z" level=warning msg="unable to get installplan from cache" channel=stable id=7HkBf installplan=install-xxxx
namespace=ibm-common-services pkg=cloud-native-postgresql source=ibm-operator-catalog sub=cloud-native-postgresql-stable-ibm-operator-catalog-openshift-marketplace

Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
08 September 2022

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ibm16602737