[Users] Fwd: Re: Help: Problem uploading the ISO file on engine

[David Li]

Sandro,

My upload process basically becomes a zombie that can't even be killed by root. The ISO domain remains in inactive state forever. The only recovery option is to reboot. 

Another question:
Why can't we put the upload function inside the web portal admin?

David



----- Original Message -----
> From: Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at redhat.com>
> To: David Li <david_li at sbcglobal.net>; Federico Simoncelli <fsimonce at redhat.com>
> Cc: "users at ovirt.org" <users at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 12:33 AM
> Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [Users] Help: Problem uploading the ISO file on engine
> 
> Il 14/01/2014 17:52, David Li ha scritto:
>>  The ovirt-iso-uploader log only has one line:
>> 
>>  2014-01-13 19:08:05::INFO::engine-iso-uploader::1067::root:: Start 
> uploading CentOS-6.4-x86_64-netinstall.iso 
>> 
>> 
>>  This is version 3.3.2-1.el6
>> 
>>  My immediate question is how I can kill the upload process without 
> rebooting the engine box? So I can try to reproduce the problem again.  
>>  It's probably in a "sleep but not interrupt" state. None of 
> the usual kill -9 commands worked. My NFS ISO domain has also been put in the 
> "inactive" state most likely due to this problem. 
>> 
>> 
> 
> I think that connectivity to NFS server may have gone down while uploading the 
> ISO image.
> That may have caused NFS ISO domain change the state to "inactive" and 
> caused iso uploader to change its execution state to "D".
> But IIRC in such case kill -9 should work.
> Federico, do you have any suggestion?
> 
> 
>>  Thanks.
>> 
>>  David
>> 
>> 
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>>  From: Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at redhat.com>
>>>  To: david_li at sbcglobal.net
>>>  Cc: 
>>>  Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 2:05 AM
>>>  Subject: Fwd: Re: [Users] Help: Problem uploading the ISO file on 
> engine
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>  -------- Messaggio originale --------
>>>  Oggetto: Re: [Users] Help: Problem uploading the ISO file on engine
>>>  Data: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:04:37 +0100
>>>  Mittente: Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at redhat.com>
>>>  A: Sven Kieske <S.Kieske at mittwald.de>,  
> "users at ovirt.org" 
>>>  <users at ovirt.org>
>>> 
>>>  Il 14/01/2014 08:32, Sven Kieske ha scritto:
>>>>   Hi,
>>>> 
>>>>   which engine version?
>>>>   anything in engine.log?
>>> 
>>>  +1
>>> 
>>>>   (I honestly don't know if there's any logging
>>>>   for the iso uploader?).
>>> 
>>>  yes there is, in /var/log/ovirt-iso-uploader dir.
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>   I never encountered such a problem.
>>> 
>>>  Same here. Can you reproduce using -v flag when running iso uploader?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>   HTH
>>>> 
>>>>   Am 13.01.2014 20:45, schrieb David Li:
>>>>>   Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>>   I copied a Centos netinstall ISO file to a directory on my 
> engine 
>>>  machine to get ready for installation. Then I used 
>>>>> 
>>>>>   engine-iso-uploader upload -i ISO_DOMAIN 
>>>  CentOS-6.4-x86_64-netinstall.iso 
>>>>> 
>>>>>   to upload or put it into the proper ISO domain directory. 
> However this 
>>>  command now totally stuck. Even kill -9 won't be able to do 
> anything. 
>>>  Moreover now my ISO domain in the DC seems dead or becomes inactive 
> too. 
>>>>> 
>>>>>   What happened? Is there any way to recover from this point 
> without 
>>>  rebooting everything? 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>>>  Sandro Bonazzola
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> 
> 
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