[ovirt-users] Re: How to kill hanged task listed in engine but not in vdsm-client?

On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 1:39 PM Stefano Stagnaro < stefanos(a)prismatelecomtesting.com&gt; wrote: [snip] I think in these cases you have to use taskcleaner.sh Last year I had similar problems with hung tasks and I was pointed to taskcleaner.sh from Fred: https://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2017-November/085194.html but it was not so user friendly in its syntax During engine-setup there are cleaning stages when you see [ INFO ] Cleaning async tasks and compensations [ INFO ] Unlocking existing entities So one chance could be to run engine-setup --offline (to prevent updates) and let it do the clean stage Putting environment into global maintenance before in case of self hosted engine There are also detailed docs on rh portal, such as https://access.redhat.com/solutions/500263 but they need subscription for access.... and for pure oVirt I only found this: https://www.ovirt.org/develop/developer-guide/db-issues/helperutilities/ It would be nice to have a free documentation entry point for oVirt users facing this kind of problems, in my opinion. HIH, Gianluca