[ovirt-users] Re: Weird problem starting VMs in oVirt-4.4

I ended up making a BZ about this same issue a few weeks ago, but misdiagnosed the root cause. Maybe we could add to that? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1839598

On Mon, Jun 8, 2020, 11:54 AM Strahil Nikolov via Users <users(a)ovirt.org <mailto:users@ovirt.org>> wrote: Are you using ECC ram ? Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov На 8 юни 2020 г. 15:06:22 GMT+03:00, Joop <jvdwege(a)xs4all.nl <mailto:jvdwege@xs4all.nl>> написа: >On 3-6-2020 14:58, Joop wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> Just had a rather new experience in that starting a VM worked but the >> kernel entered grub2 rescue console due to the fact that something >was >> wrong with its virtio-scsi disk. >> The message is Booting from Hard Disk .... >> error: ../../grub-core/kern/dl.c:266:invalid arch-independent ELF >maginc. >> entering rescue mode... >> >> Doing a CTRL-ALT-Del through the spice console let the VM boot >> correctly. Shutting it down and repeating the procedure I get a disk >> problem everytime. Weird thing is if I activate the BootMenu and then >> straight away start the VM all is OK. >> I don't see any ERROR messages in either vdsm.log, engine.log >> >> If I would have to guess it looks like the disk image isn't connected >> yet when the VM boots but thats weird isn't it? >> >> >As an update to this: >Just had the same problem with a Windows VM but more importantly also >with HostedEngine itself. >On the host did: >hosted-engine --set-maintenance --mode=global >hosted-engine --vm-shutdown > >Stopped all oVirt related services, cleared all oVirt related logs from >/var/log/..., restarted the host, ran hosted-engine --set-maintenance >--mode=none >Watched /var/spool/mail/root to see the engine coming up. It went to >starting but never came into the Up status. >Set a password and used vncviewer to see the console, see attached >screenschot. >hosted-engine --vm-poweroff, and tried again, same result >hosted-engine --vm-start, works >Let it startup and then shut it down after enabling maintenance mode. >Copied, hopefully, all relevant logs and attached them. > >A sosreport is also available, size 12Mb. I can provide a download link >if needed. > >Hopefully someone is able to spot what is going wrong. > >Regards, > >Joop _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org <mailto:users@ovirt.org> To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org <mailto:users-leave@ovirt.org> Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/XASNIEZTZIM...