[ovirt-users] Re: Cannot restart ovirt after massive failure.

On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 4:13 PM Gilboa Davara <gilboad(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > > > On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 2:46 PM Yedidyah Bar David <didi(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >> >> On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 1:56 PM Gilboa Davara <gilboad(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: >> > >> > >> > >> > On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 12:16 PM Gilboa Davara <gilboad(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: >> >> >> >> Hello, >> >> >> >> On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 11:50 AM Yedidyah Bar David <didi(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >> >>> >> >>> On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 11:43 AM Strahil Nikolov via Users >> >>> <users(a)ovirt.org&gt; wrote: >> >>> > >> >>> > Corrupted metadata is the problem you see. >> >>> > >> >>> > I think there was a command to fix it, but I can't recall it right now. >> >>> >> >>> I think you refer to 'hosted-engine --clean_metadata'. Gilboa - I >> >>> suggest to search the net/archives for docs/mentions/discussions of >> >>> this option - it's rather drastic. Good luck. >> >>> >> >>> That said, I must say that if your metadata is corrupted, I wonder >> >>> what else is - so would continue using this setup with great care. >> >>> Ideally restore from backups, after testing/replacing the hardware. >> >>> >> >>> Best regards, >> >>> >> >> >> >> Thanks for the pointer. >> >> This is a side setup that's about to replaced by a real setup (3 host Gluster). >> >> That said, beyond the corrupted meta data, everything else seems to be working just fine, host boot just fine, RAID sync showed no issues. XFS partitions mounted OK, etc. >> >> The only thing that seems damaged is the hosted engine meta data. >> >> >> >> I'll test it and report back. >> >> >> >> - Gilboa >> >> >> > >> > >> > Stupid question: >> > Won't clean meta data remove the host from the "cluster" and given the fact that its a single host configuration, require a clean redploy? >> >> It's not stupid. >> >> Generally speaking, the metadata is populated by the HA daemons >> themselves, not something "external". If a specific host's entry is >> missing, they should write it. >> > > OK. Thanks again for the prompt answer. > > - Gilboa Sadly enough, it seems that --clean-metadata requires an active agent. E.g. $ hosted-engine --clean-metadata The hosted engine configuration has not been retrieved from shared storage. Please ensure that ovirt-ha-agent is running and the storage server is reachable.

Can I manually delete the metadata state files?