[Users] VMs and volumes disappearing

Martijn Grendelman martijn.grendelman at isaac.nl
Tue Oct 1 08:34:38 EDT 2013


Hi,

>> I just had the same problem again.
>> - Stopped oVirt engine
>> - Checked the 'async_tasks' table. It was empty!
>> - Started oVirt engine
>> - Same set of imported VMs as last time deleted!
>>
>> I thought that lingering records from the 'async_tasks' table were to
>> blame, but apparently, that's not the case.
>>
>> Can you tell me what I need to check/do/modify/update/delete before
>> restarting oVirt that will keep my VMs from being deleted? (Please see
>> below for a note on upgrading like you suggested)
> 
> make sure you dont have records at async_tasks with vdsm_task_id of
> "empty guid" - but i'm really not in favor of such hacks, this is a
> hack. I strongly suggest you solve upgrade issue (please communicate
> with ofer on this).

OK, I understand that, but for the record: 'async_tasks' was completely
empty before I started Engine, so this hack wouldn't have been of any use.


Cheers,
Martijn.


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