Re: [Users] vdsm unresponsive with python exception

From: "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Tony Feldmann" <trfeldmann(a)gmail.com&gt;, "Yaniv Bronheim" <ybronhei(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: "Joop" <jvdwege(a)xs4all.nl&gt;, users(a)ovirt.org, vdsm-devel(a)fedorahosted.org Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 12:33:07 AM Subject: Re: [Users] vdsm unresponsive with python exception On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 03:51:07PM -0500, Tony Feldmann wrote: > That was the issue. Found out yesterday that vdsm.log was somehow changed > to root:root. Just now got a chance to put it back on the mailing list. > How does the ownership of that file get cahnged. When the issue occurred I > am certain there was no one on the system. http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/12940/ (Separating supervdsm log to supervdsm.log file) solves the issue. unfortunately, only on the master branch of vdsm. I think that this is a nasty issue that has to be backported to the ovirt-3.2 branch as well, and merits to be part of ovirt-3.2.2. Regards, Dan. > > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Joop <jvdwege(a)xs4all.nl&gt; wrote: > > > Dan Kenigsberg wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 08:59:01AM -0500, Tony Feldmann wrote: > >> > >> > >>> I am having a strange issue in my ovirt cluster. I have 2 hosts, 1 > >>> running > >>> engine and added as a host and one other system added as a host. Both > >>> systems are running gluster across local disks for shared storage. > >>> Everything was working fine until last night, where my system that is > >>> also > >>> running the engine when unresponsive in the admin page. All vms were > >>> still > >>> running that were on the host. I shut down the vms that were on the > >>> host > >>> from within the guest os as I was not able to do anything to the vm > >>> with > >>> the host in unresponsive state. After getting the vms off and > >>> rebooting > >>> the host, the vdsmd service says that it is running, but it continually > >>> restarts the vdsm process and dumps out these messages: detected > >>> unhandled > >>> Python exception in '/usr/share/vdsm/vdsm'. All services say they are > >>> up > >>> and running but the host stays in unresponsive state and the vdsm > >>> process > >>> keeps respawning. There is also no data in the vdsm.log. Can anyone > >>> shed > >>> any light on this for me? > >>> > >>> > >> > >> vdsm-devel(a)fedorahosted.org may be a better place to ask vdsm-specific > >> questions. > >> > >> Could you log into the non-operational host as root, and stop the vdsm > >> service. > >> > >> Then become the vdsm user with > >> > >> su -s /bin/bash - vdsm > >> > >> and run /usr/share/vdsm/vdsm manually. Do you see anything in > >> particular? > >> > >> > >> > > Please have a look at the permissions/owner of /var/log/vdsm/vdsm.log. > > Should be vdsm:kvm and not root:root > > > > Joop > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users