[Users] Problem setting up new engine with 3.3 on Fedora 19

Bob Doolittle bob at doolittle.us.com
Sun Nov 3 20:17:36 UTC 2013


Hi,

I am doing a fresh engine-setup, with all the defaults, using oVirt 3.3 
on Fedora 19 (all updates).

When I connect to it, it shows my default Datacenter as "Uninitialized" 
and shows no Storage (it should show ISODOMAIN). I can see that my 
ISODOMAIN appears to be created and NFS exported, and I can mount it 
[*]. It's not actually mounted anywhere, however, which seems suspicious.

In the Storage tab, if I go to create a New Domain, it shows "Data 
Center Default (NFS) !", and if I mouse-over the exclamation point it 
says "Data Center is uninitialized, in order to initialize add a data 
domain". But I can't actually create a new domain, because the "Use 
Host" pull-down is empty.

Should I not see my local host in that pulldown menu? How am I supposed 
to add local storage?
I can't find any errors in the log that logs that look relevant. I checked:

engine-config.log (no errors)

setup/ovirt-engine-setup-*.log (no errors)

engine.log has no errors that look relevant, but it does have a lot of 
odd java exceptions, which can be viewed here:
http://pastebin.com/TYxi3p36

Any suggestions?

-Bob

* There's a bug in F19 that interferes with engine-setup 
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=970595). Systemd does not 
start the NFS service at boot and you have to do a weird kludge to 
actually get it to start at bootup (described in the bug report). I've 
applied the workaround so that's not my issue but it's worth mentioning 
here. Unfortunately engine-setup doesn't detect that the service is down 
when you attempt to configure an NFS storage domain. That sounds like an 
engine-setup bug to me - it should check and warn the user, which would 
go a fair ways towards mitigating the issue in F19, and may be more 
important for other platforms which may make different assumptions about 
the default behavior of the NFS service (Fedora assumes it should be 
running, it's just a bug there, but other platforms may arguably assume 
it should not be running by default).




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