I had an outage in my home lab which caused a hard reset of my ESXi host and my vCenter 6.0 Appliance didn't come back.
After some digging it seems to have corrupted vpxd.cfg and all other services are running OK. I've taken the vpxd.cfg form another vCenter and tried to modify it to match the broken vCenter, but am stuck on one of the fields.
Can anyone on here help with identifying what registry.DB.key_3 is and help me figure out how to re-populate it?
<registry>
<DB>
<key_2>vc</key_2>
<key_3>*1NEYlJqjHdESjIov2FprZ+Fxmja1kG0vmOUS/eG2vFdShjbXgxj0cGZKjOs1rBhY</key_3>
</DB>
The generic error I get when trying to start vCenter is:
Stderr =
2017-10-26T16:01:38.671Z {
"resolution": null,
"detail": [
{
"args": [
"Command: ['/sbin/service', u'vmware-vpxd', 'start']\nStderr: "
],
"id": "install.ciscommon.command.errinvoke",
"localized": "An error occurred while invoking external command : 'Command: ['/sbin/service', u'vmware-vpxd', 'start']\nStderr: '",
"translatable": "An error occurred while invoking external command : '%(0)s'"
}
],
"componentKey": null,
"problemId": null
}
ERROR:root:Unable to start service vmware-vpxd, Exception: {
"resolution": null,
"detail": [
{
"args": [
"vmware-vpxd"
],
"id": "install.ciscommon.service.failstart",
"localized": "An error occurred while starting service 'vmware-vpxd'",
"translatable": "An error occurred while starting service '%(0)s'"
}
],
"componentKey": null,
"problemId": null
}
Unable to start service vmware-vpxd, Exception: {
"resolution": null,
"detail": [
{
"args": [
"vmware-vpxd"
],
"id": "install.ciscommon.service.failstart",
"localized": "An error occurred while starting service 'vmware-vpxd'",
"translatable": "An error occurred while starting service '%(0)s'"
}
],
"componentKey": null,
"problemId": null
}
Below is from the vpxd log:
2017-10-26T16:11:51.245Z info vpxd[7FC44622D7A0] [Originator@6876 sub=vpxdVdb] [VpxdVdb::SetDBType] Logging in to DSN: VMware VirtualCenter with username vc
2017-10-26T16:11:51.245Z error vpxd[7FC44622D7A0] [Originator@6876 sub=vpxCrypt] [bool VpxCrypterSym::Decrypt(const byte*, size_t, const byte*, unsigned int, by
te*, size_t&)] openssl error: error in EVP_DecryptFinal_ex()
2017-10-26T16:11:51.245Z error vpxd[7FC44622D7A0] [Originator@6876 sub=vpxCrypt] [bool VpxCrypterSym::Decrypt(const byte*, size_t, const byte*, unsigned int, by
te*, size_t&)] ERR error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory
2017-10-26T16:11:51.245Z error vpxd[7FC44622D7A0] [Originator@6876 sub=vpxCrypt] [bool VpxCrypterSym::Decrypt(const byte*, size_t, const byte*, unsigned int, by
te*, size_t&)] ERR error:2006D080:BIO routines:BIO_new_file:no such file
2017-10-26T16:11:51.245Z error vpxd[7FC44622D7A0] [Originator@6876 sub=vpxCrypt] [bool VpxCrypterSym::Decrypt(const byte*, size_t, const byte*, unsigned int, by
te*, size_t&)] ERR error:0B084002:x509 certificate routines:X509_load_cert_crl_file:system lib
2017-10-26T16:11:51.245Z error vpxd[7FC44622D7A0] [Originator@6876 sub=vpxCrypt] [bool VpxCrypterSym::Decrypt(const byte*, size_t, const byte*, unsigned int, by
te*, size_t&)] ERR error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory
2017-10-26T16:11:51.245Z error vpxd[7FC44622D7A0] [Originator@6876 sub=vpxCrypt] [bool VpxCrypterSym::Decrypt(const byte*, size_t, const byte*, unsigned int, by
te*, size_t&)] ERR error:2006D080:BIO routines:BIO_new_file:no such file
2017-10-26T16:11:51.245Z error vpxd[7FC44622D7A0] [Originator@6876 sub=vpxCrypt] [bool VpxCrypterSym::Decrypt(const byte*, size_t, const byte*, unsigned int, by
te*, size_t&)] ERR error:0B084002:x509 certificate routines:X509_load_cert_crl_file:system lib
2017-10-26T16:11:51.245Z error vpxd[7FC44622D7A0] [Originator@6876 sub=vpxCrypt] [bool VpxCrypterSym::Decrypt(const byte*, size_t, const byte*, unsigned int, by
te*, size_t&)] ERR error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory
2017-10-26T16:11:51.246Z error vpxd[7FC44622D7A0] [Originator@6876 sub=vpxCrypt] [bool VpxCrypterSym::Decrypt(const byte*, size_t, const byte*, unsigned int, by
te*, size_t&)] ERR error:2006D080:BIO routines:BIO_new_file:no such file
2017-10-26T16:11:51.246Z error vpxd[7FC44622D7A0] [Originator@6876 sub=vpxCrypt] [bool VpxCrypterSym::Decrypt(const byte*, size_t, const byte*, unsigned int, by
te*, size_t&)] ERR error:0B084002:x509 certificate routines:X509_load_cert_crl_file:system lib
2017-10-26T16:11:51.246Z error vpxd[7FC44622D7A0] [Originator@6876 sub=vpxCrypt] [bool VpxCrypterSym::Decrypt(const byte*, size_t, const byte*, unsigned int, by
te*, size_t&)] ERR error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line
2017-10-26T16:11:51.246Z error vpxd[7FC44622D7A0] [Originator@6876 sub=vpxCrypt] [bool VpxCrypterSym::Decrypt(const byte*, size_t, const byte*, unsigned int, by
te*, size_t&)] ERR error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line
2017-10-26T16:11:51.246Z error vpxd[7FC44622D7A0] [Originator@6876 sub=vpxCrypt] [bool VpxCrypterSym::Decrypt(const byte*, size_t, const byte*, unsigned int, by
te*, size_t&)] ERR error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line
2017-10-26T16:11:51.246Z error vpxd[7FC44622D7A0] [Originator@6876 sub=vpxCrypt] [bool VpxCrypterSym::Decrypt(const byte*, size_t, const byte*, unsigned int, by
te*, size_t&)] ERR error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line
2017-10-26T16:11:51.246Z error vpxd[7FC44622D7A0] [Originator@6876 sub=vpxCrypt] [bool VpxCrypterSym::Decrypt(const byte*, size_t, const byte*, unsigned int, by
te*, size_t&)] ERR error:06065064:digital envelope routines:EVP_DecryptFinal_ex:bad decrypt
2017-10-26T16:11:51.246Z error vpxd[7FC44622D7A0] [Originator@6876 sub=CryptUtil] [static bool Vpx::Common::CryptUtil::UnmungePassword(VpxDecrypter*, const stri
ng&, std::vector<unsigned char>&)] Failed to decrypt password: error decrypting the password
2017-10-26T16:11:51.246Z error vpxd[7FC44622D7A0] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] [Vdb::IsRecoverableErrorCode] Unable to recover from 00000:0
2017-10-26T16:11:51.246Z error vpxd[7FC44622D7A0] [Originator@6876 sub=vpxdVdb] [VpxdVdb::SetDBType]: Database error: ODBC error: (00000) -
2017-10-26T16:11:51.246Z error vpxd[7FC44622D7A0] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] Error getting configuration info from the database
2017-10-26T16:11:51.246Z error vpxd[7FC44622D7A0] [Originator@6876 sub=Main] [Init] Init failed: VpxdVdb::Init