[Users] vdsm unresponsive with python exception

[Joop]

Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 08:59:01AM -0500, Tony Feldmann wrote:
>   
>> I am having a strange issue in my ovirt cluster.  I have 2 hosts, 1 running
>> engine and added as a host and one other system added as a host.  Both
>> systems are running gluster across local disks for shared storage.
>> Everything was working fine until last night, where my system that is also
>> running the engine when unresponsive in the admin page.  All vms were still
>> running that were on the host.  I shut down the vms that were on the host
>> from within the guest os as I was not able to do anything to the vm with
>> the host in unresponsive state.  After getting the vms off and rebooting
>> the host, the vdsmd service says that it is running, but it continually
>> restarts the vdsm process and dumps out these messages: detected unhandled
>> Python exception in '/usr/share/vdsm/vdsm'.  All services say they are up
>> and running but the host stays in unresponsive state and the vdsm process
>> keeps respawning.  There is also no data in the vdsm.log.  Can anyone shed
>> any light on this for me?
>>     
>
> vdsm-devel at fedorahosted.org may be a better place to ask vdsm-specific
> questions.
>
> Could you log into the non-operational host as root, and stop the vdsm
> service.
>
> Then become the vdsm user with
>
>     su -s /bin/bash - vdsm
>
> and run /usr/share/vdsm/vdsm manually. Do you see anything in
> particular?
>
>   
Please have a look at the permissions/owner of /var/log/vdsm/vdsm.log. 
Should be vdsm:kvm and not root:root

Joop