[Users] ovirt-node install hangs

[Mike Burns]

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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