[ovirt-users] Re: ovirt-engine unresponsive - how to rescue?

On the host you tried to restart the engine on: Add an alias to virsh (authenticates with virsh_auth.conf) alias virsh='virsh -c qemu:///system?authfile=/etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/virsh_auth.conf' Then run virsh: virsh virsh # list Id Name State ---------------------------------------------------- xx HostedEngine Paused xx ********** running ... xx ********** running HostedEngine should be in the list, try and resume the engine: virsh # resume HostedEngine On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 at 17:28, Shareef Jalloq <shareef(a)jalloq.co.uk&gt; wrote: > Thanks! > > The status hangs due to, I guess, the VM being down.... > > [root@ovirt-node-01 ~]# hosted-engine --vm-start > VM exists and is down, cleaning up and restarting > VM in WaitForLaunch > > but this doesn't seem to do anything. OK, after a while I get a status of > it being barfed... > > --== Host ovirt-node-00.phoelex.com (id: 1) status ==-- > > conf_on_shared_storage : True > Status up-to-date : False > Hostname : ovirt-node-00.phoelex.com > Host ID : 1 > Engine status : unknown stale-data > Score : 3400 > stopped : False > Local maintenance : False > crc32 : 9c4a034b > local_conf_timestamp : 523362 > Host timestamp : 523608 > Extra metadata (valid at timestamp): > metadata_parse_version=1 > metadata_feature_version=1 > timestamp=523608 (Wed Apr 8 16:17:11 2020) > host-id=1 > score=3400 > vm_conf_refresh_time=523362 (Wed Apr 8 16:13:06 2020) > conf_on_shared_storage=True > maintenance=False > state=EngineDown > stopped=False > > > --== Host ovirt-node-01.phoelex.com (id: 2) status ==-- > > conf_on_shared_storage : True > Status up-to-date : True > Hostname : ovirt-node-01.phoelex.com > Host ID : 2 > Engine status : {"reason": "bad vm status", "health": > "bad", "vm": "down_unexpected", "detail": "Down"} > Score : 0 > stopped : False > Local maintenance : False > crc32 : 5045f2eb > local_conf_timestamp : 1737037 > Host timestamp : 1737283 > Extra metadata (valid at timestamp): > metadata_parse_version=1 > metadata_feature_version=1 > timestamp=1737283 (Wed Apr 8 16:16:17 2020) > host-id=2 > score=0 > vm_conf_refresh_time=1737037 (Wed Apr 8 16:12:11 2020) > conf_on_shared_storage=True > maintenance=False > state=EngineUnexpectedlyDown > stopped=False > > On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 5:09 PM Maton, Brett <matonb(a)ltresources.co.uk&gt; > wrote: > >> First steps, on one of your hosts as root: >> >> To get information: >> hosted-engine --vm-status >> >> To start the engine: >> hosted-engine --vm-start >> >> >> On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 at 17:00, Shareef Jalloq <shareef(a)jalloq.co.uk&gt; wrote: >> >>> So my engine has gone down and I can't ssh into it either. If I try to >>> log into the web-ui of the node it is running on, I get redirected because >>> the node can't reach the engine. >>> >>> What are my next steps? >>> >>> Shareef. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org >>> To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org >>> Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html >>> oVirt Code of Conduct: >>> https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ >>> List Archives: >>> https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/W7BP57OCIRS... >>> >>