(Sorry if this reply doesn't thread properly. Just subscribed to reply to this topic.) I'm also experiencing this issue. Just upgraded to the latest packages and both ovirt-ha-agent and ovirt-ha-broker pause for a long time when being started, then timeout with errors. [root@ovirt2 ~]# systemctl start ovirt-ha-broker Job for ovirt-ha-broker.service failed because a timeout was exceeded. See "systemctl status ovirt-ha-broker.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. [root@ovirt2 ~]# systemctl start ovirt-ha-agent Job for ovirt-ha-agent.service failed because a timeout was exceeded. See "systemctl status ovirt-ha-agent.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. Dec 17 15:27:53 ovirt2 systemd: Failed to start oVirt Hosted Engine High Availability Communications Broker. Dec 17 15:27:53 ovirt2 systemd: Unit ovirt-ha-broker.service entered failed state. Dec 17 15:27:53 ovirt2 systemd: ovirt-ha-broker.service failed. Dec 17 15:27:53 ovirt2 systemd: ovirt-ha-broker.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart. Dec 17 15:27:53 ovirt2 systemd: Starting oVirt Hosted Engine High Availability Communications Broker... Dec 17 15:27:53 ovirt2 systemd-ovirt-ha-broker: Starting ovirt-ha-broker: [ OK ] Dec 17 15:27:53 ovirt2 systemd: PID 21125 read from file /run/ovirt-hosted-engine-ha/broker.pid does not exist or is a zombie. Dec 17 15:29:22 ovirt2 systemd: ovirt-ha-agent.service stop-final-sigterm timed out. Killing. Dec 17 15:29:22 ovirt2 systemd: Failed to start oVirt Hosted Engine High Availability Monitoring Agent. Dec 17 15:29:22 ovirt2 systemd: Unit ovirt-ha-agent.service entered failed state. Dec 17 15:29:22 ovirt2 systemd: ovirt-ha-agent.service failed. Dec 17 15:29:22 ovirt2 systemd: ovirt-ha-agent.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart. Dec 17 15:29:23 ovirt2 systemd: ovirt-ha-broker.service start operation timed out. Terminating. Dec 17 15:29:24 ovirt2 systemd: Failed to start oVirt Hosted Engine High Availability Communications Broker. Dec 17 15:29:24 ovirt2 systemd: Unit ovirt-ha-broker.service entered failed state. Dec 17 15:29:24 ovirt2 systemd: ovirt-ha-broker.service failed. Dec 17 15:29:24 ovirt2 systemd: Starting oVirt Hosted Engine High Availability Monitoring Agent... Dec 17 15:29:24 ovirt2 systemd-ovirt-ha-agent: Starting ovirt-ha-agent: [ OK ] Dec 17 15:29:24 ovirt2 systemd: PID 21288 read from file /run/ovirt-hosted-engine-ha/agent.pid does not exist or is a zombie. Dec 17 15:29:24 ovirt2 systemd: ovirt-ha-broker.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart. Dec 17 15:29:24 ovirt2 systemd: Starting oVirt Hosted Engine High Availability Communications Broker... Dec 17 15:29:25 ovirt2 systemd-ovirt-ha-broker: Starting ovirt-ha-broker: [ OK ] Dec 17 15:29:25 ovirt2 systemd: PID 21304 read from file /run/ovirt-hosted-engine-ha/broker.pid does not exist or is a zombie. -- Matthew Trent Network Engineer Lewis County IT Services 360.740.1247 - Helpdesk 360.740.3343 - Direct line