[Users] vdsm unresponsive with python exception

Yaniv Bronheim ybronhei at redhat.com
Sun Apr 14 08:28:02 UTC 2013


If only you would accept http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/10313, Tony could manage to check the syslog for reports and fix it much faster.. :) 
Both patches should be backported IMHO

Thanks,
Yaniv.


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken at redhat.com>
> To: "Tony Feldmann" <trfeldmann at gmail.com>, "Yaniv Bronheim" <ybronhei at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Joop" <jvdwege at xs4all.nl>, users at ovirt.org, vdsm-devel at fedorahosted.org
> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 12:33:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [Users] vdsm unresponsive with python exception
> 
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 03:51:07PM -0500, Tony Feldmann wrote:
> > That was the issue.  Found out yesterday that vdsm.log was somehow changed
> > to root:root.  Just now got a chance to put it back on the mailing list.
> > How does the ownership of that file get cahnged.  When the issue occurred I
> > am certain there was no one on the system.
> 
> http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/12940/ (Separating supervdsm log to
> supervdsm.log file) solves the issue. unfortunately, only on the master
> branch of vdsm.
> 
> I think that this is a nasty issue that has to be backported to the
> ovirt-3.2 branch as well, and merits to be part of ovirt-3.2.2.
> 
> Regards,
> Dan.
> 
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Joop <jvdwege at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > 
> > > 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
> > >
> > >
> 
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