[ovirt-users] Re: Weird problem starting VMs in oVirt-4.4

Are you using ECC ram ?

Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov На 8 юни 2020 г. 15:06:22 GMT+03:00, Joop <jvdwege(a)xs4all.nl&gt; написа: > On 3-6-2020 14:58, Joop wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> Just had a rather new experience in that starting a VM worked but the >> kernel entered grub2 rescue console due to the fact that something > was >> wrong with its virtio-scsi disk. >> The message is Booting from Hard Disk .... >> error: ../../grub-core/kern/dl.c:266:invalid arch-independent ELF > maginc. >> entering rescue mode... >> >> Doing a CTRL-ALT-Del through the spice console let the VM boot >> correctly. Shutting it down and repeating the procedure I get a disk >> problem everytime. Weird thing is if I activate the BootMenu and then >> straight away start the VM all is OK. >> I don't see any ERROR messages in either vdsm.log, engine.log >> >> If I would have to guess it looks like the disk image isn't connected >> yet when the VM boots but thats weird isn't it? >> >> > As an update to this: > Just had the same problem with a Windows VM but more importantly also > with HostedEngine itself. > On the host did: > hosted-engine --set-maintenance --mode=global > hosted-engine --vm-shutdown > > Stopped all oVirt related services, cleared all oVirt related logs from > /var/log/..., restarted the host, ran hosted-engine --set-maintenance > --mode=none > Watched /var/spool/mail/root to see the engine coming up. It went to > starting but never came into the Up status. > Set a password and used vncviewer to see the console, see attached > screenschot. > hosted-engine --vm-poweroff, and tried again, same result > hosted-engine --vm-start, works > Let it startup and then shut it down after enabling maintenance mode. > Copied, hopefully, all relevant logs and attached them. > > A sosreport is also available, size 12Mb. I can provide a download link > if needed. > > Hopefully someone is able to spot what is going wrong. > > Regards, > > Joop