[Users] Getting a stream of errors inside engine.log

[Robert Middleswarth]

On 06/24/2012 12:11 PM, Yair Zaslavsky wrote:
> On 06/24/2012 07:02 PM, Robert Middleswarth wrote:
>> On 06/24/2012 11:55 AM, Yair Zaslavsky wrote:
>>> On 06/24/2012 06:45 PM, Robert Middleswarth wrote:
>>>> On 06/24/2012 09:55 AM, Doron Fediuck wrote:
>>>>> On 22/06/12 04:12, Robert Middleswarth wrote:
>>>>>> Getting a log full of error messages like these.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2012-06-21 21:03:30,075 ERROR
>>>>>> [org.ovirt.engine.core.engineencryptutils.EncryptionUtils]
>>>>>> (QuartzScheduler_Worker-90) Failed to decryptData must start with zero
>>>>>> 2012-06-21 21:03:46,235 ERROR
>>>>>> [org.ovirt.engine.core.engineencryptutils.EncryptionUtils]
>>>>>> (QuartzScheduler_Worker-18) Failed to decryptData must not be longer
>>>>>> than 128 bytes
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What is causing this and what can I do to fix it?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>> Robert
>>>>> Hi Robert,
>>>>> This really depends on your setup (devel' or yum installed).
>>>>> There are several DB values which are encrypted during the
>>>>> installation which you override
>>>>> by plain text values. In most cases the engine tries to fallback, and
>>>>> use the original value
>>>>> it got despite the error. The question now you should answer, is if
>>>>> you have any other issue.
>>>>> If things seem to work well, than it's an issue of encrypting the
>>>>> relevant values (if needed).
>>>>> If you have other related issues, then setting these values to plain
>>>>> text should use the fallback
>>>>> and resolve the issue.
>>>>>
>>>> There doesn't seem to be any negitive effect other then making the log
>>>> hard to read.  Is there any way to suppress the error?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Robert
>>> Robert, I do suggest that you try further to investigate the root cause
>>> for this.
>>> However, it is possible to modify the configuration not to log this
>>> error - you should be able to define a log4j category at
>>> $JBOSS_HOME/standalone/configuration/standalone.xml (under subsystem
>>> xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:logging:1.1) in such a way that for
>>> EncryptionUtils only FATAL messages will appear at the log (and still, I
>>> suggest that you further try to investigate why this is happening in the
>>> first place).
>>>
>>> Yair
>> I am fine with investigating why but these error's are so generic I have
>> no idea what files to check?  Despite tiring a few times I really don't
>> get Java.
> Robert - we can go to two approaches here with logging both require you
> to define a log4j category for EncryptionUtils
>
> First approach - as I suggested, move to FATAL - you will not see these
> errors.
> Second approach - move to DEBUG. I looked at the code, and saw that if
> you define a category for EncryptionUtils  with DEBUG level you will
> also get a print of stacktrace, this may assist in understanding the
> problem you're facing.
Yair,

I checked standalone.xml file and there is no section related to 
EncyptionUtils nor was there a definition for engine.log I am guessing 
that these are defined in a diff config file.
>
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>> Robert
Thanks
Robert