[Users] Error installing self hosted engine

[Dan Kenigsberg]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 04:28:29PM +0200, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
> Il 01/04/2014 16:15, Sandro Bonazzola ha scritto:
> > Il 01/04/2014 15:38, ovirt-test at arcor.de ha scritto:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I'm new to this list and I need help installing a self hosted engine
> >>
> >> I've installed CentOS 6.5 and oVirt 3.4. The following repositories are enabled:
> >> yum localinstall http://resources.ovirt.org/releases/ovirt-release.noarch.rpm
> >> yum localinstall http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
> >> yum localinstall http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/jpackage/6.0/generic/free/RPMS/jpackage-release-6-3.jpp6.noarch.rpm
> >>
> >> Just wanted to check out the self hosted feature. But I get this error:
> >>
> >> # hosted-engine --deploy
> >> [ INFO  ] Stage: Initializing
> >>           Continuing will configure this host for serving as hypervisor and create a VM where you have to install oVirt Engine afterwards.
> >>           Are you sure you want to continue? (Yes, No)[Yes]: 
> >> [ INFO  ] Generating a temporary VNC password.
> >> [ INFO  ] Stage: Environment setup
> >>           Configuration files: []
> >>           Log file: /var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup-20140401153028.log
> >>           Version: otopi-1.2.0 (otopi-1.2.0-1.el6)
> >> [ INFO  ] Hardware supports virtualization
> >> [ INFO  ] Stage: Environment packages setup
> >> [ INFO  ] Stage: Programs detection
> >> [ INFO  ] Stage: Environment setup
> >> [ ERROR ] Failed to execute stage 'Environment setup': <Fault 1: "<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>:cannot marshal None unless allow_none is enabled">
> >> [ INFO  ] Stage: Clean up
> >> [ INFO  ] Stage: Pre-termination
> >> [ INFO  ] Stage: Termination
> >>
> >> It is not this error:
> >> http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-March/022424.html
> >>
> >> In my logfile are the following errors:
> >> 2014-04-01 15:30:32 DEBUG otopi.plugins.otopi.services.rhel plugin.executeRaw:366 execute: ('/sbin/service', 'vdsmd', 'status'), executable='None', cwd='None', env=None
> >> 2014-04-01 15:30:32 DEBUG otopi.plugins.otopi.services.rhel plugin.executeRaw:383 execute-result: ('/sbin/service', 'vdsmd', 'status'), rc=0
> >> 2014-04-01 15:30:32 DEBUG otopi.plugins.otopi.services.rhel plugin.execute:441 execute-output: ('/sbin/service', 'vdsmd', 'status') stdout:
> >> VDS daemon server is running
> >>
> >> 2014-04-01 15:30:32 DEBUG otopi.plugins.otopi.services.rhel plugin.execute:446 execute-output: ('/sbin/service', 'vdsmd', 'status') stderr:
> >>
> >>
> >> 2014-04-01 15:30:32 DEBUG otopi.plugins.otopi.services.rhel rhel.status:147 service vdsmd status True
> >> 2014-04-01 15:30:32 DEBUG otopi.context context._executeMethod:152 method exception
> >> Traceback (most recent call last):
> >>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/otopi/context.py", line 142, in _executeMethod
> >>     method['method']()
> >>   File "/usr/share/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/scripts/../plugins/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/system/vdsmenv.py", line 157, in _late_setup
> >>     self._connect()
> >>   File "/usr/share/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/scripts/../plugins/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/system/vdsmenv.py", line 78, in _connect
> >>     hwinfo = serv.s.getVdsHardwareInfo()
> >>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1199, in __call__
> >>     return self.__send(self.__name, args)
> >>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1489, in __request
> >>     verbose=self.__verbose
> >>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1253, in request
> >>     return self._parse_response(h.getfile(), sock)
> >>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1392, in _parse_response
> >>     return u.close()
> >>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 838, in close
> >>     raise Fault(**self._stack[0])
> >> Fault: <Fault 1: "<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>:cannot marshal None unless allow_none is enabled">
> >> 2014-04-01 15:30:32 ERROR otopi.context context._executeMethod:161 Failed to execute stage 'Environment setup': <Fault 1: "<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>:cannot marshal None unless allow_none is enabled">
> >> 2014-04-01 15:30:32 DEBUG otopi.context context.dumpEnvironment:468 ENVIRONMENT DUMP - BEGIN
> 
> Corresponding to the above call to getVdsHardwareInfo vdsm log shows:
> 
> Thread-22::DEBUG::2014-04-01 15:30:32,100::BindingXMLRPC::1067::vds::(wrapper) client [127.0.0.1]::call getHardwareInfo with () {}
> Thread-22::DEBUG::2014-04-01 15:30:32,110::BindingXMLRPC::1074::vds::(wrapper) return getHardwareInfo with {'status': {'message': 'Done', 'code': 0},
> 'info': {'systemProductName': 'ProLiant DL380 G5', 'systemSerialNumber': 'CZC6451JFR',

That's the culprit:

> 'systemFamily': None,

Vdsm must never return None since it cannot be marshaled over standard
xmlrpc.

Please open an Vdsm bug on this!

> 'systemVersion': 'Not Specified',
> 'systemUUID': '435a4336-3435-435a-4336-3435314a4652', 'systemManufacturer': 'HP'}}