[Users] Unable to install oVirt Node 3.0.1: Exception: RunTimeError('Failed to partition/format')

[Gabi C]

Hello!

It is a real RAID controller ServeRAID 8k that comes with IBM xSeries 3650.


First I hit this problem, tryin' to upgrade from 3.2 - i.e
ovirt-node-iso-2.6.1-20120228.fc18.iso<http://resources.ovirt.org/releases/3.2/iso/ovirt-node-iso-2.6.1-20120228.fc18.iso>-
to 3.3 - ovirt-node-iso-3.0.1-1.0.2.vdsm.fc19.iso.
<http://resources.ovirt.org/releases/3.3/iso/ovirt-node-iso-3.0.1-1.0.2.vdsm.fc19.iso>...in
fact the message was "Error 'Failed to set install bootloader'"   - see
http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-September/016434.html --,
message which appear in the last styage of upgrade ( 5 out of 5).

Then I rebooted, enter the RAID setup, erase the array, reinitiliaze the
disks, recrete the array with option full - this take some time to complete
but when ready the array  was available. I also tried to create the array
with "Quick" option  - this option immediately create the array and made it
available to the OS but in the background RAID controller was still
creating the array i.e. some disk operations and got same error.



<http://resources.ovirt.org/releases/3.3/iso/ovirt-node-iso-3.0.1-1.0.2.vdsm.fc19.iso>



On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Fabian Deutsch <fabiand at redhat.com> wrote:

> Am Dienstag, den 22.10.2013, 00:00 +0200 schrieb Edgars M.:
> > Hi, thanks for your replies..
> >
> >
> > As suggested by Gabi C, I destroyed RAID on my RAID controller,
> > re-created it and after that it worked.
>
> Hey Edgars and Gabi,
>
> nice that both of you could solve this problem.
> Could you tell what kind of raid it was? Was it a "fake raid" or a real
> raid controller, and how did the raid setup look when it failed and how
> did it look afterwards?
> I'd like to capture these informations to nail down this problem a bit
> more.
>
> Thanks
> fabian
>
> >
> > Thanks again.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Joey Boggs <jboggs at redhat.com>
> > wrote:
> >         On 10/21/2013 08:59 AM, Gabi C wrote:
> >
> >         > Hello!
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > Had same problem on IBM xSeries  3650. Aparently was an RAID
> >         > problem (Serve RID in my case). I had to wipe the disk,
> >         > recreate the  array an wait until it was OK and only after
> >         > that I manage to install.
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Edgars M.
> >         > <edgars.mazurs at gmail.com> wrote:
> >         >         Hi
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >         I am trying to install oVirt Node
> >         >         (ovirt-node-iso-3.0.1-1.0.2.vdsm.fc19.iso) on DELL
> >         >         R805 server, but every time install fails
> >         >         with Exception: RunTimeError('Failed to
> >         >         partition/format'). I also
> >         >         tried ovirt-node-iso-3.0.1-1.0.2.vdsm.el6.iso
> >         >         version and the same error occures. I tried
> >         >         different partition sizes and I always make sure
> >         >         that partitions dont exceed the total disk space. I
> >         >         browsed log fails and could not find anything
> >         >         relevant. I am really out of ideas...
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >         Any advise?
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >         Thanks
> >         >         Edgars
> >         >
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> >         Once it fails, press F2 to drop to
> >         shell. /tmp/ovirt.log /var/log/ovirt.log
> >         and /var/log/ovirt-node.log will have the debug messages in
> >         it. Paste those in here if you can.
> >
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