[ovirt-users] Re: oVirt 4.2 Self-hosted engine deployment fails at the end - "failed liveliness check"

On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 1:18 PM Aleksander Maricq <ajmaricq(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > I successfully deployed an oVirt 4.2 self-hosted engine setup just over 6 > months ago, and recently tried to re-install to modify hostnames on the > engine and hypervisor. After I cleaned up and re-ran hosted-engine > --deploy my install failed right at the end (TASK [Wait for the engine to > come up on the target VM]) with the following error: > ERROR otopi.ovirt_hosted_engine_setup.ansible_utils > ansible_utils._process_output:98 fatal > > and the following engine vm status: > Engine status: {"reason": "failed liveliness check", "health": "bad", > "vm": "up", "detail": "Up"} > > I opted to do a clean re-install of CentOS 7.5 and try again, but I keep > running into the same error (see the attached logs). > This kind of error is typically due to the fact that the engine VM got from DHCP an address that doesn't match what you wrote in /etc/hosts on your host. I'd suggest to set a temporary VNV password with hosted-engine --add-console-password and then connect to the engine VM over VNC to double check its network configuration. > > Some details that may or may not be helpful: > - I'm reusing old mount points without formatting such as /home and my > previous NFS-exported storage domain LVMs. The root partition, swap, > /boot, and the engine destination LVMs were all re-formatted during the > CentOS 7.5 install or prior to attempted oVirt install. > - I'm reusing the MAC address from the previous attempt (so that it picks > up the static entry I put on my router). > - I currently only have entries in /etc/hosts to map FQDNs to IPs, but > the install fails the same way whether or not I tell the process to > populate the engine VM's hosts file. > - Prior to my re-install of CentOS 7.5 I tried, and was able, to log into > the engine appliance. I saw the hosted engine VM was listed as "down", and > there was some temporary VM (leftover from the install process?) that I > couldn't do anything to. > > Thanks in advance for your help! > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ > oVirt Code of Conduct: > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > List Archives: > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/QQMJWGYSWYK... >