[Users] Disk state - Illegal?

[Andrew Lau]

Could someone post me their disk permissions?
-rw-rw----. 1 vdsm kvm 3070820352 Sep 25 09:53
b36e838a-15d4-4058-84d4-bfe19988bcbc

My engine.log doesn't report anything and nor does my audit.log. I need to
destroy about 10+ VMs and not really keen on doing the whole
disk deletion and db removal process manually.

Cheers.


On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Liron Aravot <laravot at redhat.com> wrote:

>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Andrew Lau" <andrew at andrewklau.com>
> > To: "Dan Ferris" <dferris at prometheusresearch.com>
> > Cc: Users at ovirt.org
> > Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 4:53:51 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Users] Disk state - Illegal?
> >
> > I was just wondering, did anyone ever find the root cause of this issue?
>
> Hi,
> Disk will be in illegal status in case that ovirt failed to initiate the
> delete task for it,
> as the engine can't tell what's the exact disk state at this stage (on
> what phase the delete operation has failed) - the disk status is shown is
> illegal.
> Therefore there might be many possible reasons, each issue that will fail
> the creation of the delete task would cause the disk to remain in that
> status (along permissions issues)
> The disk deletion won't succeed till those issues would be resolved.
>
> >
> > Mine still seems to be doing the same thing, is it a permission issue or
> a
> > bug?
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Dan Ferris <
> dferris at prometheusresearch.com
> > > wrote:
> >
> >
> > I was off today, so I just saw this. I will try it out tomorrow.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >
> > On 9/25/2013 8:53 PM, Andrew Lau wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > I noticed that too, I wasn't sure if it was a bug or just how I had
> > setup my NFS share..
> >
> > There were three steps I did to remove the disk images, I'm sure there's
> > a 100% easier solution..:
> >
> > I found the easiest way (graphically) was go to your
> > https://ovirtengine/api/disks and so a search for the illegal disk.
> > Append the extra ID eg. <diskhref="/api/disks/lk342- dfsdf...
> >
> > into your URL this'll give you your image ID.
> >
> > Go to your storage share:
> > cd /data/storage-id/master/vms/ storage-id
> > grep -ir 'vmname' *
> > You'll find the image-id reference here too.
> >
> > Then the image you will want to remove is in the
> > /data/storage-id/images/image- id
> > I assume you could safely remove this whole folder if you wanted to
> > delete the disk.
> >
> > To remove the illegal state I did it through the API so again with the
> > URL above https://ovirtengine/disks/ disk-id send a DELETE using
> HTTP/CURL
> >
> > Again, this was a poor mans solution but it worked for me.
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 4:04 AM, Dan Ferris
> > < dferris at prometheusresearch. com
> > <mailto: dferris@ prometheusresearch.com >>wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have another hopefully simple question.
> >
> > One VM that I am trying to remove says that it's disk state is
> > "illegal" and when I try to remove the disk it says that it failed
> > to initiate the removing of the disk.
> >
> > Is there an easy way to get rid of these illegal disk images?
> >
> > Dan
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