Latest version of oVirt node 4.2 installed on three hosts. I completed successfully the cockpit gdeploy process to deploy HCI. All of that went well with no errors. I then proceeded to the hosted engine deployment step which eventually failed (log attached).

This is the current status:

--== Host 1 status ==--

conf_on_shared_storage : True

Status up-to-date : True

Hostname : MASKED

Host ID : 1

Engine status : {"reason": "failed liveliness check", "health": "bad", "vm": "up", "detail": "Up"}

Score : 3400

stopped : False

Local maintenance : False

crc32 : 3fa48e03

local_conf_timestamp : 8468

Host timestamp : 8468

Extra metadata (valid at timestamp):

metadata_parse_version=1

metadata_feature_version=1

timestamp=8468 (Mon Jul 30 14:21:09 2018)

host-id=1

score=3400

vm_conf_refresh_time=8468 (Mon Jul 30 14:21:09 2018)

conf_on_shared_storage=True

maintenance=False

state=EngineStarting

stopped=False

If I do hosted-engine --console I get:

The engine VM is running on this host

Connected to domain HostedEngine

Escape character is ^]

error: internal error: cannot find character device <null>

does anyone know why it may have failed or what I could do to recover from this? I'm thinking it could have potentially failed due to some problem with network config. If I could get a console in to the engine VM I might be able to fix it but that serial error above is preventing me from reaching the vm console to diagnose further.

Log of deploy attached:

Thanks!