[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
>> >                 >
>> >                 >
>> >
>> >                 > _______________________________________________
>> >                 > Users mailing list
>> >                 > Users at ovirt.org
>> >                 > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > Users mailing list
>> > Users at ovirt.org
>> > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>>
>>
>>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/attachments/20121011/fe547349/attachment-0001.html>


More information about the Users mailing list