= Noob questions = A) First time here. I couldn't find the rulebook/netiquette for oVirt mailing list, could you give me a link? B) What do you use here, top or bottom posting? C) Which is the line length limit? I've written this email manually entering new line after 80 chars, is it fine? D) Which is the log length limit? E) When should I use pastebin or similar websites? = /Noob questions = = Issue questions = TL;DR self host engine deployment fails, vdsmd.service has this error I can't find on Google: 'sysctl: cannot stat /proc/sys/ssl: No such file or directory' Long description: I've been trying for a while to deploy an oVirt self hosted engine but it failed all the time. After every failed deployment, node status resulted in 'FAIL' (or 'DEGRADED', I don't remember) and to restore it to 'OK' status I'd to run 'vdsm-tool configure --force'. vdsm-tool configuration never went through fully successful: < code > abrt is not configured for vdsm lvm is configured for vdsm libvirt is not configured for vdsm yet FAILED: conflicting vdsm and libvirt-qemu tls configuration. vdsm.conf with ssl=True requires the following changes: libvirtd.conf: listen_tcp=0, auth_tcp="sasl", listen_tls=1 qemu.conf: spice_tls=1. Current revision of multipath.conf detected, preserving < /code > I set 'auth_tcp = "sasl"' (in "/etc/libvirtd.conf") and 'spice_tls=1' (in "/etc/libvirt/qemu.conf") and restart vdsdmd.service, but it still fails: < code > Starting Virtual Desktop Server Manager... _init_common.sh[2839]: vdsm: Running mkdirs _init_common.sh[2839]: vdsm: Running configure_coredump _init_common.sh[2839]: vdsm: Running configure_vdsm_logs _init_common.sh[2839]: vdsm: Running wait_for_network _init_common.sh[2839]: vdsm: Running run_init_hooks _init_common.sh[2839]: vdsm: Running check_is_configured _init_common.sh[2839]: abrt is already configured for vdsm _init_common.sh[2839]: lvm is configured for vdsm _init_common.sh[2839]: libvirt is already configured for vdsm _init_common.sh[2839]: Current revision of multipath.conf detected, preserving _init_common.sh[2839]: vdsm: Running validate_configuration _init_common.sh[2839]: SUCCESS: ssl configured to true. No conflicts _init_common.sh[2839]: vdsm: Running prepare_transient_repository _init_common.sh[2839]: vdsm: Running syslog_available _init_common.sh[2839]: vdsm: Running nwfilter _init_common.sh[2839]: vdsm: Running dummybr _init_common.sh[2839]: vdsm: Running tune_system _init_common.sh[2839]: sysctl: cannot stat /proc/sys/ssl: No such file or directory md[1]: vdsmd.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1 md[1]: Failed to start Virtual Desktop Server Manager. md[1]: Unit vdsmd.service entered failed state. md[1]: vdsmd.service failed. md[1]: vdsmd.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart. < /code > I've no idea about how to investigate, solve or troubleshoot this issue. I've updated yesterday to the last version but nothing changed: ovirt-release-master-4.3.0-0.1.master.20180820000052.gitdd598f0.el7.noarch = /Issue questions =