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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">David Wilson:<br>
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      <div class="moz-cite-prefix"><font size="-1">H<font size="-1">i</font>
          everyone,<br>
          <br>
          <font size="-1"><font size="-1">Some feedback<font size="-1">
                on this error<font size="-1">, and a <font size="-1">question

                    I hope that someone could possibly assist with.</font></font><br>
                <font size="-1">I managed to <font size="-1">get the
                    guest running again by<font size="-1"> using dd <font
                        size="-1">and q<font size="-1">emu-img to export
                          the filesystem image and base image<font
                            size="-1">, convert to raw format and run a
                            fsck on the <font size="-1">loop<font
                                size="-1">ed part<font size="-1">ition.<br>
                                </font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div>
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    I am happy you make that work.&nbsp;&nbsp; Can you describe more details about
    how you dd the guest image? And how did you use qemu-img to export
    the filesystem image and base image.<br>
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              size="-1"><font size="-1"><font size="-1"><font size="-1"><font
                      size="-1"><font size="-1"><font size="-1"><font
                            size="-1"><font size="-1"><font size="-1"><font
                                  size="-1"> <font size="-1">When
                                    mounted as a loop filesystem, fsck
                                    easily repaired <font size="-1">it<font
                                        size="-1">.</font></font><br>
                                    <br>
                                  </font><font size="-1">Any ideas why
                                    oVirt kept pausing the guest and did
                                    no<font size="-1">t allow fsck to <font
                                        size="-1">repair the <font
                                          size="-1">filesystem?<br>
                                          <br>
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          <font color="#000000"><font face="arial" size="2">Kind
              regards,</font><br>
            <br>
            &nbsp;<font color="#000000"><font face="arial"><font size="4">David

                  Wilson</font></font></font><br>
            &nbsp;<font color="#000000"><font face="arial"><font size="1">CNS,CLS,

                  LINUX+, CLA, DCTS, LPIC3</font></font></font><br>
            &nbsp;<font color="#0779b5"><font face="arial"><font size="3"><b>LinuxTech

                    CC t/a DcData</b></font></font></font><br>
            &nbsp;<font color="#0779b5"><font face="arial"><font size="1">CK
                  number: 2001/058368/23</font></font></font><br>
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        On 12/02/2012 11:17 AM, David Wilson wrote:<br>
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        <font size="-1"><font size="-1">H</font>i everyone,<br>
          <br>
          <font size="-1"><font size="-1">Sunday fun :<font size="-1">)<br>
                <br>
              </font>One of our cr<font size="-1">itical <font
                  size="-1">Linux VMs</font> ran out of </font>disk
              space. I cleared up space by removing old application logs
              within the guest, rebooted the g<font size="-1">uest and
                was presented with the following information message
                during bootup when the filesystem <font size="-1">ext3/<font
                    size="-1">4</font></font> scan runs:<br>
                <font size="-1"><i>Clearing orhpaned inode .....</i><br>
                  <font size="-1"><font size="-1">Shortly after this
                      message the the guest is p<font size="-1">aused by
                        oVirt and the "VM has paused due to unknown
                        storage error" message is displayed in the <font
                          size="-1">oVirt web <font size="-1">GUI.<br>
                            <br>
                            <font size="-1">On the physical node itself,
                              <font size="-1">I fo<font size="-1">und t<font
                                    size="-1">he following error in<font
                                      size="-1"> /var/log/vdsm/vd<font
                                        size="-1">sm.log:<br>
                                        <font size="-1"><i>libvirtEventLoop::<a
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                                              href="INFO::2012-12-02">INFO::2012-12-02</a>
                                            09:05:50,296::libvirtvm::1965::vm.Vm::(_onAbnormalStop)


                                            vmId=`23b9212c-1e25-4003-aa18-b1e819bf6bb1`::abnormal


                                            vm stop device ide0-0-1
                                            error eother</i><br>
                                          <br>
                                          <font size="-1">Any ideas on
                                            how to get more inf<font
                                              size="-1">ormation<font
                                                size="-1"> on what
                                                exactly the <font
                                                  size="-1">error is?<br>
                                                </font></font></font><br>
                                            <font size="-1">I've <font
                                                size="-1">tried booting
                                                the guest <font
                                                  size="-1">into r<font
                                                    size="-1">es<font
                                                      size="-1">cue mode<font
                                                        size="-1">, run
                                                        a manual fsck <font
                                                          size="-1">on
                                                          the logical v<font
                                                          size="-1">olume


                                                          but each</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font>
                                            time the guest is
                                            automaticall paused due to
                                            the "unknown storage error".<br>
                                            <br>
                                            We are using a FC SAN for s<font
                                              size="-1">torage</font></font>,
                                          s<font size="-1">o<font
                                              size="-1"> what I've
                                              decided to</font></font>
                                          try is expo<font size="-1">rt
                                            the disk using "dd" <font
                                              size="-1">on the physical
                                              node </font>and t<font
                                              size="-1">hen try
                                              repairing it <font
                                                size="-1">by <font
                                                  size="-1">mounting it
                                                  as a loop filesystem
                                                  on <font size="-1">a<font
                                                      size="-1">nother
                                                      physical</font></font></font></font></font></font>
                                          ser<font size="-1">ver<font
                                              size="-1">, and then use
                                              "dd" to import it back in
                                              again.</font><br>
                                            <br>
                                            <font size="-1">Is this the
                                              right approach to take to
                                              get the system back
                                              online?<br>
                                              <br>
                                            </font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font><br>
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          <font color="#000000"><font face="arial" size="2">Kind
              regards,</font><br>
            <br>
            &nbsp;<font color="#000000"><font face="arial"><font size="4">David

                  Wilson</font></font></font><br>
            &nbsp;<font color="#000000"><font face="arial"><font size="1">CNS,CLS,


                  LINUX+, CLA, DCTS, LPIC3</font></font></font><br>
            &nbsp;<font color="#0779b5"><font face="arial"><font size="3"><b>LinuxTech


                    CC t/a DcData</b></font></font></font><br>
            &nbsp;<font color="#0779b5"><font face="arial"><font size="1">CK
                  number: 2001/058368/23</font></font></font><br>
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                          size="2">+27(0)860-1-LINUX</font></font></font></td>
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                          size="2"><b>Mobile:</b></font></font></font></td>
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Open Virtualization Engineerning; CSTL, IBM Corp.
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