[Users] ovirt-node install hangs
Mike Burns
mburns at redhat.com
Thu Oct 11 11:32:27 UTC 2012
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?
>
> 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.
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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