Re: [ovirt-users] Metadata error on hosted engine (fresh install)

----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matteo" <mbrancaleoni(a)voismart.it&gt; > To: users(a)ovirt.org > Sent: Friday, July 3, 2015 5:06:13 PM > Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Metadata error on hosted engine (fresh install) > > Well, > > I blindly tried the following: > > * check the name of the block device used for metadata > * then shutdown the engine vm > * then stop agent and broker on first host > and finally zeroed the block device with > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/dm-12 > > (dm-12 is the block device pointed by metadata file) > > started again broker and agent, after a while the engine > was started by HA and the metadata was readable. > > now hosted_engine --vm-status works ok and I was able > to add a 2nd node to the cluster. > > Maybe the metadata block device needs to be cleared when doing iSCSI setup? Shouldn't be needed. > > Don't know if this is correct, but seems to work ok now. Do you have a backup of the device with the bad data? Can you check/post logs of setup and ha?

Thanks and best regards, -- Didi