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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><font size="-1">H<font size="-1">i</font>
everyone,<br>
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<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 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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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>
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<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
moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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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