[Users] vdsm unresponsive with python exception

[Tony Feldmann]

There wasn't actually any info in syslog other than logging that there was
a python exception.  I actually had to track down the python abort file to
find that it was getting permission errors on the log file.


On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 3:28 AM, Yaniv Bronheim <ybronhei at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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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> >
> >
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