[Users] Installing ovirt-nightly problems

[Juan Hernandez]

On 11/02/2012 01:24 PM, Joop wrote:
> Since I had some problems getting bonding working correctly in my
> ovirt-3.1 test installation I decide to start all over with a clean
> install and try the nightly, the webcast about bonding is using a nightly.
> That didn't go to well :-(
> What I did:
> - install Fedora-17 from live CD
> - yum upgrade --exclude=kernel*
>   (stayed on 3.3.4-5)
> - yum localinstall http://ovirt.org/releases/ovirt-release-fedora.noarch.rpm
> - enabled nightly in ovirt.repo
> - yum install ovirt-engine
> 
> Ended up with the following nightly rpms:
> ovirt-engine-3.1.0-3.20121031.gitdd0ad7f.fc17.noarch
> ovirt-engine-backend-3.1.0-3.20121031.gitdd0ad7f.fc17.noarch
> ovirt-engine-cli-3.2.0.5-1.20121025.git4189352.fc17.noarch
> ovirt-engine-config-3.1.0-3.20121031.gitdd0ad7f.fc17.noarch
> ovirt-engine-dbscripts-3.1.0-3.20121031.gitdd0ad7f.fc17.noarch
> ovirt-engine-genericapi-3.1.0-3.20121031.gitdd0ad7f.fc17.noarch
> ovirt-engine-notification-service-3.1.0-3.20121031.gitdd0ad7f.fc17.noarch
> ovirt-engine-restapi-3.1.0-3.20121031.gitdd0ad7f.fc17.noarch
> ovirt-engine-sdk-3.2.0.2-1.20121022.git8013c12.fc17.noarch
> ovirt-engine-setup-3.1.0-3.20121031.gitdd0ad7f.fc17.noarch
> ovirt-engine-tools-common-3.1.0-3.20121031.gitdd0ad7f.fc17.noarch
> ovirt-engine-userportal-3.1.0-3.20121031.gitdd0ad7f.fc17.noarch
> ovirt-engine-webadmin-portal-3.1.0-3.20121031.gitdd0ad7f.fc17.noarch
> ovirt-image-uploader-3.1.0-1.fc17.noarch
> ovirt-iso-uploader-3.1.0-1.fc17.noarch
> ovirt-log-collector-3.1.0-1.fc17.noarch
> ovirt-release-fedora-4-2.noarch
> 
> ran engine-setup and gave default answers where possible.
> Instalation stopped with a Creating Database... ERROR
> Attached are the logs and the real error is in the enginedb log:
> user name is: engine
> Creating uuid-ossp extension...
> psql:/tmp/tmp.8hb5EYqc0Y:1: ERROR:  permission denied to create extension
> "uuid-ossp"
> HINT:  Must be superuser to create this extension.
> 
> It is right, user engine isn't a superuser and thus not allowed to create
> the extension.
> I modified the CREATE ROLE statement to include SUPERUSER role and
> restarted engine-setup, now it continues and runs til the end.
> Looking at the code I think that the second invocation of creating the
> uuid-ossp extension isn't needed but commenting that line gives an error
> too.
> Looking at ovirt-stable and comparing the scripts in
> /usr/share/ovirt-engine does show some changes but I don't know enough
> internals to see what changed that causes this.

We are aware of this issue that has been introduced in an attempt to
solve a different problem in Fedora 18. There is a bug open and we are
working on the solution:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/870056

Meanwhile the workaround that you used should work fine.

Sorry for the inconveniences.

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