Hi Simone,

My attempt to install the RPM output hundreds of lines similar to:

/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ovirt_hosted_engine_setup/__init__.pyc from install of ovirt-hosted-engine-setup-2.2.29-1.el7.noarch conflicts with file from package ovirt-hosted-engine-setup-2.2.26-1.el7.noarch

Do I need to install the matching version of ovirt node?

“using it interactively without manually filing an answerfile” – if you mean using command: hosted-engine –deploy

and then manually typing each value, I tried this (choosing the static IP option) and the usual error occurs.  I attach the log from this attempt.

Many thanks,

Brendan

From: Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos@redhat.com>
Sent: 24 October 2018 08:44
To: B Holmes <me@brendanh.com>
Cc: users <users@ovirt.org>
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Re: Diary of hosted engine install woes

Can you please retry installing https://jenkins.ovirt.org/job/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup_4.2_build-artifacts-el7-x86_64/157/artifact/exported-artifacts/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup-2.2.29-1.el7.noarch.rpm and using it interactively without manually filing an answerfile?

On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 11:19 PM Brendan Holmes <me@brendanh.com> wrote:

Hi Simone,

I attempted to use a fixed IP address instead of DHCP.  I attach an attempt using answer-file parameter:

OVEHOSTED_VM/cloudinitVMStaticCIDR=str:10.0.0.109/24

which is in accordance with this example on your website:

https://ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/integration/heapplianceflow/

However, instead of this, you will notice that the log has:

OVEHOSTED_VM/cloudinitVMStaticCIDR=bool:'False'

The same error as usual occurred.  Is this:

1. The wrong syntax\format for specifying a “cloudinitVMStaticCIDR” IP?
2. ovirt setup is ignoring it: either failing to assign the IP to the engine VM or to variable “local_vm_ip.stdout_lines”?
3. Something else?

“You can also connect to that VM with VNC to check what's going on.” – Doesn’t work.  Port querying 10.0.0.109 on 5800\5900 fails, so I don’t think the VM is networked.  Which port does engine VNC use?

Many thanks,

Brendan

From: Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos@redhat.com>
Sent: 23 October 2018 09:09
To: B Holmes <me@brendanh.com>
Cc: users <users@ovirt.org>
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Re: Diary of hosted engine install woes

OK,

according to this log file, the target engine VM didn't got an IPv4 address:

Are you sure that your DHCP server is properly working?

You can also connect to that VM with VNC to check what's going on.

On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 10:37 PM Brendan Holmes <me@brendanh.com> wrote:

Hi Simone,

Pls see attached the log without any of my variable-enumeration changes.

Many thanks,

Brendan

From: Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos@redhat.com>
Sent: 22 October 2018 13:33
To: B Holmes <me@brendanh.com>
Cc: users <users@ovirt.org>
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Re: Diary of hosted engine install woes

On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 11:50 PM Brendan Holmes <me@brendanh.com> wrote:

Hi Simone,

Sorry for late response, I’ve been unwell.  Attached is the whole log you requested.  I hope it reveals why variable “local_vm_ip.stdout_lines” is not being populated.

Hi,

according to your log file the deployment was successful: 

at this point I can only suggest again to simply run the vanilla code without any custom patch.

From: Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos@redhat.com>
Sent: 15 October 2018 04:49

On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 6:08 AM Brendan Holmes <me@brendanh.com> wrote:

Hi Simone,

[ ERROR ] fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"msg": "The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: list object has no element 0\n\nThe error appears to have been in '/usr/share/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/ansible/create_target_vm.yml': line 396, column 5, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n    changed_when: True\n  - name: Clean /etc/hosts on the host\n    ^ here\n"}

I think that this is just an error in the clean up on failures phase due to something bad before.

Can you please attach the whole deployment log from /var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine/hosted-engine.log ?