On Wed, Sep 2, 2026 at 7:07 AM Eugen Block <ceph-users@ceph.io> wrote:

Hi Patrick,

thanks for the efforts to bring 20.2.4 to Noble!

I just installed those packages on a virtual machine that I use for testing. I can create a cluster successfully (package based), but the MGR ends up in a respawn loop, reporting these error messages:

---snip--- Sep 02 10:27:10 tentacle-ubuntu24 ceph-mgr[3289]: Failed to import NVMeoFClient and related components: cannot import name 'NVMeoFClient' from 'dashboard.services.nvmeof_client' (/usr/share/ceph/mgr/dashboard/services/nvmeof_client.py) Sep 02 10:27:10 tentacle-ubuntu24 ceph-mgr[3289]: ERROR:root:Module 'xmltodict' is not installed. ---snip---

The xmltodict error can easily be fixed by installing python3-xmltodict, but it probably should be a dependency then when installing the ceph-mgr package, I assume?

Correct. That is an example of a change that will need backported for v20.2.5.

The NVMeoFClient message doesn't seem to be critical, at least I can't notice anything obvious right now, but I also have no nvme service deployed or anything. The dashboard also works fine.

Should I create tracker for the xmltodict error?

No need, I'll take care of it. Thank you for testing and the report! -- Patrick Donnelly, Ph.D. He / Him / His Red Hat Partner Engineer IBM, Inc. GPG: 19F28A586F808C2402351B93C3301A3E258DD79D