[Users] vdsm unresponsive with python exception

Dan Kenigsberg danken at redhat.com
Tue Apr 16 19:36:44 UTC 2013


On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 04:28:02AM -0400, Yaniv Bronheim 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

Well, please start by backporting the undoubted log separation. Then we
can continute the blame game :-)

> 
> 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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