[Users] ovirt-node install hangs
Alexandre Santos
santosam72 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 11 20:57:12 UTC 2012
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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