[Users] ovirt node 2.3.0 totally broken ?!

[Mike Burns]

Hi Vincent

On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 18:12 +0200, Vincent Miszczak wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  
> 
> I’m new to oVirt world and I was very excited before testing it.
> Several minutes after trying to test, I feel less excited because of
> many early issues. I hope you’ll be able to help me. Here is my story.
> 
>  
> 
> I’ve installed ovirt-engine on Fedora 16 VM(ESXi 4.1) and I have
> installed an ovirt-node 2.3.0-1.0.fc16 from iso on a Dell Poweredge
> 2950 server.
> 
>  
> 
> The ovirt-engine is running just fine.
> 
> Problems come with the ovirt-node.
> 
>  
> 
> First, during installation, language selection is broken : it does not
> work. I have selected French keyboard, and layout remained QWERTY
> (French layout is AZERTY)

Hmm... I'm not aware of these problems, but I'm pretty sure there are
additional patches pending for the 2.4.0 release coming shortly.
Fabian, can you check this?  I only have US keyboard.  

> 
>  
> 
> Then, after installation, you login (with the broken layout it’s
> boring to enter ‘admin’) but as a VMWare user, you like the feeling
> that looks like VMWare. Good point.
> 
> Ok, now you can change the keyboard layout again…, let’s do this. You
> do it a first time : still not working (when you enter a hostname for
> example). Let’s do it a second time : “Fuck!!!”. Python has just
> output tons of nasty messages about recursion depth issues and you
> cannot see the menu anymore…

Yes, I've seen this, but only after a lot of transitions.  It's
something we're looking to fix, but haven't gotten to it yet.  

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=831316


> So you reboot the host, take a coffee while it is testing its RAM, and
> avoid going into the keyboard layout menu again because you fear for
> your loss time.
> 
> You enable SSH, you register with ovirt-engine, fine, you should be
> able to work now.
> 
>  
> 
> Let’s see what you can do with SSH  from your workstation :
> 
> “Fuck!!” (again), you now have to mirror the broken keyboard layout to
> type it correctly. So nasty…
> 
> Ok, you have the ncurse menu. And then, after several seconds, you
> loose SSH connection. WTF ?! You cannot connect again. You have to go
> to the server lab because you don’t have  IP KVM for remote display.

The logout is a security feature.  It will log out sessions that are
idle longer than a certain length of time.  IIRC, this is set to 900
seconds.  

As for not being able to login again, there was a bug around this that
should be fixed in 2.4.0.  

> 
> Keep cool, maybe you’ll be able to see what’s going on from the
> ovirt-engine GUI. Nice, this guy has seen the node, so you approve it.
> Host is up. No, wait for it… down after 30s. Engine cannot connect to
> node anymore.

Need vdsm.log from node and engine.log from engine to figure this out.

> 
> You still don’t have remote display on your node. You loose.
> 
>  
> 
> I will move to the node display tomorrow to see what’s happening to
> it. I suppose I will need to give you tons of dump later.
> 
>  
> 
> I know this is free software, but free software does not mean broken
> software.
> 
> I’m a bit afraid with my first experience with this one.
> 
>  
> 
> Do you know those issues ?! I have looked at bug tracker, there is no
> post about all those problems.
> 
> Will I get more chance by installing VDSM on raw Fedora or whatever
> than with ovirt-node ?
> 

Using VDSM on Fedora is another option.  oVirt Node should be more
stable than you're seeing though.


Mike
>  
> 
> Guys, thanks for your time.
> 
>  
> 
> Vince
> 
> 
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