[Users] [vdsm] Remove and Add host does not work

[Deepak C Shetty]

On 02/28/2012 06:57 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
> On 02/28/2012 03:22 PM, Deepak C Shetty wrote:
>> On 02/28/2012 06:46 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
>>> On 02/28/2012 02:48 PM, Deepak C Shetty wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I had a host managed via OE, completely working fine. Was even able to
>>>> create and run VMs off it.
>>>> I tried removing the host from the OE (put host into maint. mode and
>>>> then remove) and when i re-discover
>>>> the same host, OE just keeps seeing it as Non-responsive.
>>>
>>> what do you mean by "re-discover"?
>>>
>>
>> I just meant that i removed the host and re-added it by selecting "New"
>> on the Hosts tab
>> and putting the IP and hostname.
>>
>>>>
>>>> I am able to ssh into the host and see that none of the vdsm processes
>>>> have been started.
>>>> I tried doing "Confirm host has been rebooted" on the OE, did not 
>>>> help.
>>>> I tried putting
>>>> host into maint. mode and re-activating the host, just doesn't help
>>>
>>> did you do any change to the host?
>>> just removing it from engine shouldn't cause vdsm to know/care and
>>> should work just like before.
>>>
>>
>> Nothing changed on the host. In fact when i removed and added the 
>> host back
>> it says everything is installed so does nothing but reboots the host,
>> post reboot
>> vdsm does not start automatically.... and host status is non-responsive
>> on OE
>
> if vdsm does not start, OE is correct...
> does vdsm try to start and fails (and if so, log excerpt?)

Right, but I dont see any traces of vdsm trying to start. Nothing in the 
vdsm.log
thats relevant to this. I just did chkconfig --list and don't see vdsmd 
in that, could
that be the reason.

On the host I manually did `service vdsmd restart` and then everythign works
fine.
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