[Users] engine setup failes using seprate /usr partition

[Itamar Heim]

On 02/28/2012 11:02 AM, Oved Ourfalli wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: wdh at dds.nl
>> To: users at ovirt.org
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 10:35:39 AM
>> Subject: [Users] engine setup failes using seprate /usr partition
>>
>> Running engine-setup fails when using a seperate /var partion
>> (seperated from  /) In
>> /var/log/ovirt-engine/engine-setup_xxxxxxx.log:
>>
>>    2012-02-18 14:46:16::ERROR::engine-setup::614::root:: Traceback
>>    (most
>> recent call last):
>>      File "/usr/bin/engine-setup", line 612, in _linkHttpParams
>>        os.link(target, link)
>>    OSError: [Errno 18] Invalid cross-device link
>>
>>    2012-02-18 14:46:16::ERROR::engine-setup::728::root:: Traceback
>>    (most
>> recent call last):
>>      File "/usr/bin/engine-setup", line 712, in _editRootWar
>>        _linkHttpParams()
>>      File "/usr/bin/engine-setup", line 615, in _linkHttpParams
>>        raise Exception(output_messages.ERR_EXP_FAILED_ROOT_WAR)
>>    Exception: Could not copy ROOT.war configuration into Jboss profile
>>
>> The installer tries to make a hard link to somewhere is /usr to
>> /etc/ovirt-engine, which is not possible since /usr is on a separate
>> disk partition.
>> One can solve it to move /etc/overt-engine to
>> /usr/local/etc/ovirt-engine en create a symbolic link in /etc/
>>
>> I would like to report a bug, where can do this?

I don't think a bug will help here.
iirc, setup is using hard links for now since jboss 7 doesn't allow 
symbolic ones and we didn't figure out a better solution/fix yet.

>>
> Hey,
> 1. go to https://bugzilla.redhat.com
> 2. Create a new account (if you don't already have one), and Sign in
> 3. Choose "New"
> 4. Choose "Community Projects"
> 5. Choose "oVirt"
> 6. In the components choose "ovirt-engine-installer"
> 7. Describe your bug
> Thank you very much for your time to help us improve oVirt!
>
> Oved
>
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