[Users] ovirt-node install hangs

[Alexandre Santos]

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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