[ovirt-users] unable to get hosted-engine to start

Thanks in advance for your enlightenment - somehow i may have missed a step when I try to backup - and that's when it stopped working the current situation is ALL my VM are up and running EXCEPT hostedengine - oVirt is running on a single node - ovirt-release40-4.0.4-1.noarch - Centos 7.2 hosted-engine --vm-start - did not generate error message at the console - log were complaining of lock and out of space (but now it's gone) - got rid off VM DOWN - got rid of sanlock without a process ID vdsClient does not show HostedEngine as UP (use to show DOWN - but I used poweroff) root@vmhost2 ~]# vdsClient -s 0 list table 01d78c9b-01e9-4dc3-b047-c809f82ae327 141203 GitRepo Up 5b4be6a8-2d94-440b-a221-7396f400ebf7 83717 jetbrains Up 393e28ed-6d11-4651-b367-dd0718ee40c7 126065 turing2 Up 5481665c-9a93-49c6-b7e7-b81495d00a9f 193259 vmcentosdebut Up 439c18db-9f5d-4983-9cd4-38a5ec9f57a6 79098 ecemail Up 844cfa3c-dcff-41a7-b96a-c680a83e4901 146694 vmwinchoco Up dd15556f-a290-4cc8-87d1-d311d1298caf 35974 newWds1 Up 9596a5cf-73ae-4c32-9f35-afbc4dd3cb39 5702 ipmi5 Up [root@vmhost2 ~]# sanlock client status (used to show "s hosted-engine:1:/var/run/vdsm/storage/fd533c44-09f0..." - but I used --reinitialize-lockspace [--force] ) daemon d29562f4-46e1-4838-ad70-666cbcaf1ce3.vmhost2.ec p -1 helper p -1 listener p -1 status p 141203 GitRepo p 126065 turing2 p 146694 vmwinchoco p 193259 vmcentosdebut p 5702 ipmi5 p 79098 ecemail p 35974 newWds1 p 83717 jetbrains AND when I look inside at my backup db is empty [root@vmhost2 ~]# tar -tvf /backup/oVirt.20161012/ovirtBackup drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2016-10-11 14:52 ./ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2016-10-11 14:52 ./db/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 3160 2016-10-11 14:52 ./files -rw-r--r-- root/root 8 2016-10-11 14:52 ./version -rw-r--r-- root/root 8 2016-10-11 14:52 ./os_version -rw-r--r-- root/root 150 2016-10-11 14:52 ./config -rw-r--r-- root/root 168 2016-10-11 14:52 ./md5sum I also try hosted-engine --vm-start --vm-conf=/etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/hosted-engine.conf all I get is a console message "Unexpected exception" cannot find anything else ​What can I do to get the hosted-engine started? - and not loose any of my currently running VM ​ -- *Francois Brochu* System Administrator/ IT Team Leader Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Alberta francois.brochu(a)ualberta.ca Tel: (780) 492-2010