[Users] ovirt-guest-agent issue/troubleshooting

Wed Oct 30 08:16:34 UTC 2013

On 10/30/2013 07:09 AM, Karli Sjöberg wrote:
> tis 2013-10-29 klockan 15:48 +0100 skrev 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?
>
> All systems are as upgraded as they can be, and dc/cluster is running 
> in 3.2-mode. Probably since I´m running dreyou´s repo (and perhaps 
> René as well), the versions may be different from what´s in yours?
Sorry my bad, I messed up the correlation with the versions. I thought 
4.10.3 is 3.1 but it is really 3.2.
So this issues are fixed with 3.3 where I would wait with the upgrade 
until it was finally stabilized.

>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately not much I can recommend besides to upgrade at some 
>>>> point. :-(
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > >
>>>>>> > >
>>>>>> > > Thanks a lot,
>>>>>> > > René
>>>>>> > >
>>>>>> > >
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>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Vinzenz Feenstra | Senior Software Engineer
>>>> RedHat Engineering Virtualization R & D
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>>
>>
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>> Regards,
>>
>> Vinzenz Feenstra | Senior Software Engineer
>> RedHat Engineering Virtualization R & D
>> Phone: +420 532 294 625
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