[Users] ovirt-guest-agent issue/troubleshooting

[Vinzenz Feenstra]

On 10/29/2013 03:06 PM, Karli Sjöberg wrote:
> tis 2013-10-29 klockan 14:48 +0100 skrev Vinzenz Feenstra:
>> On 10/29/2013 02:37 PM, Karli Sjöberg wrote:
>>
>>> tis 2013-10-29 klockan 14:30 +0100 skrev René Koch (ovido):
>>>> On Tue, 2013-10-29 at 13:23 +0000, Karli Sjöberg wrote:
>>>> > tis 2013-10-29 klockan 14:15 +0100 skrev René Koch (ovido):
>>>> > > Hi,
>>>> > >
>>>> > > I have some issues with ovirt-guest-agent as no information is reported
>>>> > > from guest-agent to oVirt webadmin anymore.
>>>> > > I'm unsure when I lost the information - I know for sure it worked last
>>>> > > month when I tested the guest agent packages for Debian and Ubuntu.
>>>> > >
>>>> > > Status now is that I don't receive any data.
>>>> > > I have the following test vms:
>>>> > > * RHEL 6 with rhevm-guest-agent 1.0.7 (RHEV repository)
>>>> > > * RHEL 6 with ovirt-guest-agent 1.0.8 (EPEL)
>>>> > > * openSUSE 12.3 with ovirt-guest-agent 1.0.8.1 (self compiled)
>>>> > >
>>>> > > Both RHEL server reported information (memory, ip-address,...)
>>>> > > previously.
>>>> > > The only changes which could broke the guest agent communication are
>>>> > > updates on the CentOS host and the engine.
>>>> > >
>>>> > > Can you give me some hints how to troubleshoot the guest agent? I can't
>>>> > > find any information (or don't know the right pattern to search for) in
>>>> > > vdsm.log and engine.log. Guest agent is running in the vms, but doesn't
>>>> > > log anything except start and stop of the service (can I change the
>>>> > > handler_logfile args for more debugging and if yes how?):
>>>> > >
>>>> > > # tail /var/log/ovirt-guest-agent/ovirt-guest-agent.log
>>>> > > MainThread::INFO::2013-10-29
>>>> > > 11:00:15,340::ovirt-guest-agent::37::root::Starting oVirt guest agent
>>>> > >
>>>> > > Btw, I'm running oVirt 3.2.3...
>>>> >
>>>> > This has happened for me in the past and putting the Host in
>>>> > maintenance and then restarting the vdsmd solved it.
>>>> >
>>>> > /Karli
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks a lot Karli - restarting vdsmd did the trick!
>>>
>>> Well, even a broken clock can be right. Even twice a day:)
>>>
>>> @developers
>>> Is this something you have noticed as well? I mean, that sometimes 
>>> vdsmd needs this manual kick? Where do you start debugging when this 
>>> issue occurs, restarting the daemon once in a while is just the 
>>> quickfix, I´d like to solve it once and for all.
>> Yeah there have been applied multiple fixes in that regard already.
>>
>> https://github.com/oVirt/vdsm/commit/5b5c58580e20ffaf3ceff7193f4c28cbadd8c42f
>> and 
>> https://github.com/oVirt/vdsm/commit/26bfc74765aed35af6d17cfad1ed8115eef650f1
>>
>> So it looks like that both of you are using oVirt 3.1, which contains 
>> neither of those two fixes. AFAIK only the first one is in oVirt 3.2 
>> and the second one is in oVirt 3.3
>
> Öhm:
> ovirt-engine-3.2.2-1.1.43.el6.noarch
>
> And René already stated running 3.2.3
Hmm interesting, but that VDSM version is not 3.2? Did you upgrade your 
hypervisors?
>
>>
>> Unfortunately not much I can recommend besides to upgrade at some 
>> point. :-(
>>
>>>
>>>> >
>>>> > >
>>>> > >
>>>> > > Thanks a lot,
>>>> > > René
>>>> > >
>>>> > >
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>>>
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>> Regards,
>>
>> Vinzenz Feenstra | Senior Software Engineer
>> RedHat Engineering Virtualization R & D
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> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Karli Sjöberg
> Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
> Box 7079 (Visiting Address Kronåsvägen 8)
> S-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
> Phone:  +46-(0)18-67 15 66
> karli.sjoberg at slu.se <mailto:karli.sjoberg at adm.slu.se>
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