On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 10:47 PM, gregor <gregor_forum@catrix.at> wrote:
How can I completely remove all the problematic VDSM remains to get a
clean system again without wiping the whole machine?


You can try following this:
https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/how-to/hosted-engine/#recoving-from-failed-install

 
chees
gregor

On 16/10/16 20:58, gregor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after a failed hosted-engine installation I removed all the ovirt and
> vdsm packages, rebooted the system and started from scratch.
> But when I run "hosted-engine --deploy" it stuck's during starting vdsm.
>
> The logfile /var/log/vdsm/supervdsm.log gives me the following
>
> ...
> MainThread::DEBUG::2016-10-16
> 20:54:42,065::storage_log::69::blivet::(log_exception_info) IGNORED:
>    Caught exception, continuing.
> MainThread::DEBUG::2016-10-16
> 20:54:42,065::storage_log::72::blivet::(log_exception_info) IGNORED:
>    Problem description: failed to get initiator name from iscsi firmware
> MainThread::DEBUG::2016-10-16
> 20:54:42,065::storage_log::73::blivet::(log_exception_info) IGNORED:
>    Begin exception details.
> MainThread::DEBUG::2016-10-16
> 20:54:42,066::storage_log::76::blivet::(log_exception_info) IGNORED:
>        Traceback (most recent call last):
> MainThread::DEBUG::2016-10-16
> 20:54:42,066::storage_log::76::blivet::(log_exception_info) IGNORED:
>          File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/blivet/iscsi.py", line
> 142, in __init__
> MainThread::DEBUG::2016-10-16
> 20:54:42,066::storage_log::76::blivet::(log_exception_info) IGNORED:
>            initiatorname = libiscsi.get_firmware_initiator_name()
> MainThread::DEBUG::2016-10-16
> 20:54:42,066::storage_log::76::blivet::(log_exception_info) IGNORED:
>        IOError: Unknown error
> MainThread::DEBUG::2016-10-16
> 20:54:42,066::storage_log::77::blivet::(log_exception_info) IGNORED:
>    End exception details.
> ...
>
> Can anybody help? I found a old are close again like so many other bug
> reports with "CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE":
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1238239
>
> cheers
> gregor
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