Autoupdate to v8 not working, wants me to update manually

[haroldboom]

Issue description

v6.5.1 hot fix 2 won't automatically update to v8 hot fix 3. The node tells me to run the update manually but there are no instructions for this

Expected behavior

Auto updates as normal

Actual behavior

Doesn't update:
INFO: New major update available. Please run update to version 8.0.0+hotfix.3 manually.

Steps to reproduce the problem

1. Update config to enable autoupdate
2. reboot node

Specifications

• Node version: 6.5.1 hot fix 2
• Platform: Ubuntu Server

Error logs

Dec 27 21:36:09 event-horizon-1 systemd[1]: otnode.service: Consumed 7.042s CPU time.
Dec 27 21:36:09 event-horizon-1 systemd[1]: Started OriginTrail V6 Node.
Dec 27 21:36:10 event-horizon-1 node[373438]: [2024-12-27 21:36:10] USERLVL: level-change
Dec 27 21:36:10 event-horizon-1 node[373438]: [2024-12-27 21:36:10] WARN: ======================================================
Dec 27 21:36:10 event-horizon-1 node[373438]: [2024-12-27 21:36:10] WARN: Using node.js version: 16.20.1
Dec 27 21:36:10 event-horizon-1 node[373438]: [2024-12-27 21:36:10] WARN: ======================================================
Dec 27 21:36:10 event-horizon-1 node[373438]: [2024-12-27 21:36:10] INFO: Checking for new updates...
Dec 27 21:36:10 event-horizon-1 node[373438]: [2024-12-27 21:36:10] DEBUG: AutoUpdater - Comparing versions...
Dec 27 21:36:10 event-horizon-1 node[373438]: [2024-12-27 21:36:10] DEBUG: AutoUpdater - Reading app version from /root/ot-node/6.5.1+hotfix.2/package.json
Dec 27 21:36:10 event-horizon-1 node[373438]: [2024-12-27 21:36:10] DEBUG: AutoUpdater - Reading remote version from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OriginTrail/ot-node/v6/release/mainnet/package.json
Dec 27 21:36:10 event-horizon-1 node[373438]: [2024-12-27 21:36:10] DEBUG: AutoUpdater - Sending request to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OriginTrail/ot-node/v6/release/mainnet/package.json
Dec 27 21:36:10 event-horizon-1 node[373438]: [2024-12-27 21:36:10] DEBUG: AutoUpdater - Current version: 6.5.1+hotfix.2
Dec 27 21:36:10 event-horizon-1 node[373438]: [2024-12-27 21:36:10] DEBUG: AutoUpdater - Remote Version: 8.0.0+hotfix.3
Dec 27 21:36:10 event-horizon-1 node[373438]: [2024-12-27 21:36:10] INFO: New major update available. Please run update to version 8.0.0+hotfix.3 manually.
Dec 27 21:36:10 event-horizon-1 node[373438]: [2024-12-27 21:36:10] TRACE: Removing file at path: /root/ot-node/data/UPDATED
Dec 27 21:36:10 event-horizon-1 node[373438]: [2024-12-27 21:36:10] DEBUG: File not found at path: /root/ot-node/data/UPDATED
Dec 27 21:36:10 event-horizon-1 node[373438]: [2024-12-27 21:36:10] INFO: ██████╗ ████████╗███╗ ██╗ ██████╗ ██████╗ ███████╗
Dec 27 21:36:10 event-horizon-1 node[373438]: [2024-12-27 21:36:10] INFO: ██╔═══██╗╚══██╔══╝████╗ ██║██╔═══██╗██╔══██╗██╔════╝
Dec 27 21:36:10 event-horizon-1 node[373438]: [2024-12-27 21:36:10] INFO: ██║ ██║ ██║ ██╔██╗ ██║██║ ██║██║ ██║█████╗
Dec 27 21:36:10 event-horizon-1 node[373438]: [2024-12-27 21:36:10] INFO: ██║ ██║ ██║ ██║╚██╗██║██║ ██║██║ ██║██╔══╝
Dec 27 21:36:10 event-horizon-1 node[373438]: [2024-12-27 21:36:10] INFO: ╚██████╔╝ ██║ ██║ ╚████║╚██████╔╝██████╔╝███████╗
Dec 27 21:36:10 event-horizon-1 node[373438]: [2024-12-27 21:36:10] INFO: ╚═════╝ ╚═╝ ╚═╝ ╚═══╝ ╚═════╝ ╚═════╝ ╚══════╝
Dec 27 21:36:10 event-horizon-1 node[373438]: [2024-12-27 21:36:10] INFO: ======================================================
Dec 27 21:36:10 event-horizon-1 node[373438]: [2024-12-27 21:36:10] INFO: OriginTrail Node v6.5.1+hotfix.2
Dec 27 21:36:10 event-horizon-1 node[373438]: [2024-12-27 21:36:10] INFO: ======================================================
Dec 27 21:36:10 event-horizon-1 node[373438]: [2024-12-27 21:36:10] INFO: Node is running in mainnet environment
Dec 27 21:36:10 event-horizon-1 node[373438]: [2024-12-27 21:36:10] INFO: Dependency injection module is initialized
Dec 27 21:36:10 event-horizon-1 node[373438]: [2024-12-27 21:36:10] INFO: Event emitter initialized
Dec 27 21:36:10 event-horizon-1 node[373438]: [2024-12-27 21:36:10] INFO: autoUpdater module initialized with implementation: ot-auto-updater
Dec 27 21:36:10 event-horizon-1 node[373438]: [2024-12-27 21:36:10] INFO: validation module initialized with implementation: merkle-validation
Dec 27 21:36:10 event-horizon-1 node[373438]: [2024-12-27 21:36:10] INFO: telemetry module initialized with implementation: ot-telemetry
Dec 27 21:36:11 event-horizon-1 node[373438]: [2024-12-27 21:36:11] INFO: network module initialized with implementation: libp2p-service
Dec 27 21:36:12 event-horizon-1 node[373438]: [2024-12-27 21:36:12] INFO: httpClient module initialized with implementation: express-http-client
Dec 27 21:36:12 event-horizon-1 node[373438]: [2024-12-27 21:36:12] INFO: tripleStore module initialized with implementation: ot-blazegraph

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[Mihajlo-Pavlovic]

The fastest solution is to remove code that prevents this update.

You can look at this PR how we did it in version you missed. #3618

Look at changes in src/commands/common/otnode-update-command.js