OBS Appliance - Failed to start LSB & Unable To Update

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I am running OBS Appliance 2.8.2 based on openSUSE 42.2. When the appliance boots I get error “Failed to start LSB: Finds the storage device to be used for OBS server and/or worker.” I followed the setup instructions to create a LVM volume group with the name “OBS”. I can see the LVM group is in good shape. I have include systemctl dump of status obsstoragesetup.service below. In addition when I try to run “zypper up” I get Error Code: Write Error. I checked root drive and it is at 100% utilization. Before update process starts I get a notification stating my repository is outdated and should consider and update, should I be looking at changing repo? At this point being that my OBS LVM is on a separate storage drive should I just reinstall with the latest appliance image?

● obsstoragesetup.service - LSB: Finds the storage device to be used for OBS server and/or worker   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/obsstoragesetup; bad; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2018-03-06 18:44:59 UTC; 16min ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 1365 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/obsstoragesetup start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)


Mar 06 18:44:59 linux obsstoragesetup[1365]: OBS_SERVER_SIZE=38912
Mar 06 18:44:59 linux obsstoragesetup[1365]: TOTAL_SWAP_SIZE=1024
Mar 06 18:44:59 linux obsstoragesetup[1365]: FINAL_VG_SIZE = 12284 - 38912 - 25600 - 1024
Mar 06 18:44:59 linux obsstoragesetup[1365]: FINAL_VG_SIZE=-53252
Mar 06 18:44:59 linux obsstoragesetup[1365]: OBS_WORKER_ROOT_SIZE=-26626
Mar 06 18:44:59 linux obsstoragesetup[1365]: MIN_WORKER_ROOT_SIZE=4096
Mar 06 18:44:59 linux systemd[1]: obsstoragesetup.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Mar 06 18:44:59 linux systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Finds the storage device to be used for OBS server and/or worker.
Mar 06 18:44:59 linux systemd[1]: obsstoragesetup.service: Unit entered failed state.
Mar 06 18:44:59 linux systemd[1]: obsstoragesetup.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.




Filesystem              Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs                2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev
tmpfs                   2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                   2.0G  9.0M  2.0G   1% /run
tmpfs                   2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda1               2.2G  2.2G     0 100% /
/dev/sda2                18G  1.4G   16G   9% /var/cache/obs
/dev/mapper/OBS-server   38G  1.5G   34G   5% /srv/obs
tmpfs                   396M     0  396M   0% /run/user/0
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After a reboot of my appliance, the drive utilization went down to 88%. It does not look like an update is possible with such a small root partition being that I need over 500 updates. I attempted upgrading appliance by applying 2.8.4 image while retaining my storage volume, but I ended up with an additional error on boot “Failed to start LSB: open build service source service server”. I have also posted to the mailing list under message https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-buildservice/2018-03/msg00009.html

I am gong to stay on version 2.8.2 as it is stable at the moment, it still shows the error called out, but does build packages fine. I was thinking I could upgrade to latest version by expanding root partition, or setting up a new appliance w/o my existing storage. However I would like ensure some safeguards are in place to avoid update issues in the future, maybe monthly OS update, etc…