[Users] ovirt-node install hangs

Alexandre Santos santosam72 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 27 18:48:14 UTC 2012


2012/11/27 Vincent Miszczak <vmiszczak at ankama.com>

> Hi,****
>
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>
> I have the exact same problems with the latest 2.5.5-0.1.****
>
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>
> **1.       **I’m unable to install from USB stick because after
> installation, the system does not find it’s root volume.****
>
> **2.       **Using a CDROM, the installation hangs. First time it hanged
> at 75%. Second time I tried, it hanged at 25%. No message at all, but
> keyboard is responsive (lock num, console switch).****
>
> ** **
>
> I could try to do some debug for you. Having the root account used during
> the installation would help. What is it?****
>
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>
> With the CDROM installation, I’ve tried with 2 different hard drives and
> the server was running fine with its previous OS, so no hardware issue here.
> ****
>
> I was running the installation on a Poweredge 1950 server.****
>
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>
> Vince****
>
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>
> *De :* users-bounces at ovirt.org [mailto:users-bounces at ovirt.org] *De la
> part de* Alexandre Santos
> *Envoyé :* jeudi 11 octobre 2012 22:57
> *À :* Mike Burns
> *Cc :* users at ovirt.org
> *Objet :* Re: [Users] ovirt-node install hangs****
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> 2012/10/11 Alexandre Santos <santosam72 at gmail.com>****
>
> 2012/10/11 Mike Burns <mburns at redhat.com>****
>
> On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 11:12 +0100, Alexandre Santos wrote:
> > Hi,
> > yesterday I tried the new oVirt Node 2.5.3. I tried installing it
> > without the quiet flag but no luck. It hanged again and the kernel
> > didn't show any error on console (tty2).
> > Later will test without the rhgh flag.****
>
> Default options? TUI install? Hardware? UEFI or legacy bios?****
>
>
> I always choose the troubleshooting option and then do an install with
> basic video. The only thing I changed from the default kernel boot line was
> the quiet flag.
>
> Yes, TUI.
>
> Hardware: this is an old MSI P35Neo MB with 4 GB RAM and a Xeon 3040. The
> SATA disk is connected to the onboard controller. The same problem occurred
> with an IDE HDD.****
>
>
> Without rhgb and quiet no luck at all. Tomorrow will try with a SATA PCI
> Card with a Sil chip.
>  ****
>
>  ****
>
>
> >
> > Alex
> >
> > BTW, now the hostname works on 2.5.3 :-) The network configuration is
> > still tricky... sometimes I have an "Apply" sometimes only a "Back"
> > choice.****
>
> I *think* this is a feature of being registered to ovirt-engine.  Once
> you are registered, you can't change the network through the TUI
> anymore.
>
> If you're not registered with Engine, please elaborate a bit and I'll
> try to figure out what is going on.****
>
>
> What you're saying makes sense. The problem I had was that my node was
> booting with DHCP and the IP changed. When I got to the engine / web
> administrator, my Host was not detected and I couldn't change it's IP, only
> the hostname... On the TUI I can't change the IP because I'm registered but
> can't change it also on the engine. Is this correct? ****
>
>
> Mike****
>
>
> >
> > 2012/10/9 Alexandre Santos <santosam72 at gmail.com>
> >         It's working now :-)
> >
> >         Thanks a lot all!
> >
> >         Alex
> >
> >         P.S. I haven't tried installing it on my SATA disk because I
> >         have there a Local Node already running but I'm going to try
> >         again on another one to see if I can send to you the error
> >         log.
> >
> >
> >         2012/10/8 Mike Burns <mburns at redhat.com>
> >                 On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 09:54 +0100, Alexandre Santos
> >                 wrote:
> >                 >
> >                 >
> >                 > 2012/10/8 Fabian Deutsch <fabiand at redhat.com>
> >                 >         Am Montag, den 08.10.2012, 09:24 +0100
> >                 schrieb Alexandre
> >                 >         Santos:
> >                 >         > 2012/10/8 Fabian Deutsch
> >                 <fabiand at redhat.com>
> >                 >         >         Hey,
> >                 >         >
> >                 >         >         Am Sonntag, den 07.10.2012, 15:29
> >                 +0100 schrieb
> >                 >         Alexandre
> >                 >         >         Santos:
> >                 >         >         > Hi,
> >                 >         >         > I'm trying to install the
> >                 ovirt-node iso image on
> >                 >         a SATA
> >                 >         >         disk and when
> >                 >         >         > it gets to the screen where it
> >                 shows 25% completed
> >                 >         the
> >                 >         >         kernel hangs. I
> >                 >         >         > can't connect using a serial
> >                 console to see what
> >                 >         has
> >                 >         >         happened. If I
> >                 >         >         > reboot using a usb linux disk I
> >                 see that the SATA
> >                 >         disk has
> >                 >         >         been
> >                 >         >         > formated and the partitions that
> >                 existed before
> >                 >         disappeared,
> >                 >         >         being
> >                 >         >         > there just one partition of type
> >                 "ee"
> >                 >         >
> >                 >         >
> >                 >         >         Is there any error displayed when
> >                 kernel hangs at
> >                 >         25%? And it
> >                 >         >         can take
> >                 >         >         some time to pass the 25% (up to
> >                 ~2min or so).
> >                 >         >
> >                 >         > No, I think it's a kernel hang because the
> >                 lights on the
> >                 >         keyboard halt
> >                 >         > and I can't change to tty2, etc.. I even
> >                 changed to tty2 and
> >                 >         waited to
> >                 >         > see if there were some errors but nothing.
> >                 I've read that
> >                 >         "tty8" was
> >                 >         > the logging console but no luck also.
> >                 >         > BTW, I tried with an IDE disk and the
> >                 result was the same.
> >                 >
> >                 >
> >                 >         Mh, okay.
> >                 >         Could you try booting without the rhgb and
> >                 quiet kernel
> >                 >         arguments. I
> >                 >         hope that some errors will be displayed on
> >                 the screen so we
> >                 >         get an idea
> >                 >         about the problem.
> >                 >
> >                 >         >
> >                 >         >         > If I use a 8 GB usb pen-drive
> >                 instead of the SATA
> >                 >         disk, the
> >                 >         >         > installation comes to an end and
> >                 I reboot but then
> >                 >         I get
> >                 >         >         some error
> >                 >         >         > about not
> >                 getting /dev/mapper/by-name/Root and the
> >                 >         boot
> >                 >         >         fails to a
> >                 >         >         > dracut shell.
> >                 >         >         > Any ideas?
> >                 >         >
> >                 >         >
> >                 >         >         In the dracut shell, could you run
> >                 blkid and post
> >                 >         the results?
> >                 >         >
> >                 >         > I noticed that the USB Disk was named
> >                 RootBackup instead of
> >                 >         Root... I
> >                 >         > then rebooted and chose uninstall and then
> >                 installed oVirt
> >                 >         Node from
> >                 >         > scratch and now it worked.
> >
> >
> >                 Glad it worked the second time.  There should be 4
> >                 partitions on the
> >                 disk.
> >
> >                 Partition 1 is for UEFI or bios_boot depending on your
> >                 machine type.
> >                 Partition 2 and Partition 3 are Root and RootBackup.
> >                  So seeing a
> >                 RootBackup is correct.  Not seeing a Root is
> >                 incorrect.  If you rebooted
> >                 the host in the middle of the install, or if the
> >                 install hung for some
> >                 reason, I can see that situation happening and see it
> >                 working after
> >                 uninstall/install.
> >
> >                 >         > I can't activate Networking because I have
> >                 that "no
> >                 >         hostname" error
> >                 >         > mentioned in another post. I think it's
> >                 related to that...
> >
> >
> >                 You can't activate networking at all?  That is news to
> >                 me.  The node
> >                 should work perfectly fine with or without a FQDN.
> >
> >
> >                 >
> >                 >
> >                 >         Yes, I've also seen the hostname error. And
> >                 I've also seen
> >                 >         some problems
> >                 >         with the rootfs lately.
> >
> >
> >                 Have you seen these issues with the 2.5.2 build?  Or
> >                 only master branch
> >                 builds?
> >
> >                 >         Could you provide a screenshot/dump of the
> >                 console with that
> >                 >         error?
> >                 >
> >                 >         - fabian
> >                 >
> >                 >
> >                 > Ok! I'll send them as soon as possible.
> >                 >
> >                 > Alex
> >                 >
> >                 >
> >
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I had the problem you mentioned about not finding the root volume. It's a
Fedora issue that you can solve on the boot, changing the root to /dev/sr0,
for instance.

About the setup hanging, I had a kernel panic (I think), because my
keyboard stopped responding.

Alex
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