[Users] VM not starting up

Nauman Abbas nauman.abbas at seecs.edu.pk
Wed Jan 1 05:23:18 UTC 2014


I'm going through the log (which is quite big) and I've found out this part
which is like 2 seconds after the vmcreate part. Have a look maybe this is
what you're looking for. It contains the ERROR and Traceback in it.


http://ur1.ca/gakhc


On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Gadi Ickowicz <gickowic at redhat.com> wrote:

> It would be helpful to get a bit more information from the logs - after
> the vmCreate there are several other things that occur before the vm
> process is actually launched (prepareImage and following that the actual
> vm's should be visible in the log). Try to search for an error in the vdsm
> log, and if you cannot find one attach logs containing the vmCreate and the
> other operations I mentioned.
>
> Errors in the vdsm log are usually logged in lines containing ERROR, but
> sometimes if the error comes from libvirt it may not contain the uppercase
> ERROR and be logged as libvirtError or something similar.
>
> you should also have the qemu log for the vm you are trying to run.
> usually under /var/log/libvirt/qemu/<name_of_the_vm>.log - maybe that will
> give more information regarding the failure
>
> Gadi Ickowicz
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joop" <jvdwege at xs4all.nl>
> To: "Nauman Abbas" <nauman.abbas at seecs.edu.pk>
> Cc: "users at ovirt.org" <Users at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2013 12:51:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] VM not starting up
>
> Nauman Abbas <nauman.abbas at seecs.edu.pk> wrote:
>
>
> I've attached the portions with vmcreate. I found 5 instances of pairs of
> call vmcreate and return vmcreate. I've separated them with lines. See if
> that helps.
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Gadi Ickowicz < gickowic at redhat.com >
> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Maybe you can send just the relevant part of the vdsm logs that contain
> the attempt to launch the vm itself - it should start with vmCreate. Try to
> find "::call vmCreate with (..." and either find the matching "return
> vmCreate with"
> or an maybe there is an ERROR or Traceback in the vdsm log following the
> vmCreate call.
>
> Gadi Ickowicz
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nauman Abbas" < nauman.abbas at seecs.edu.pk >
> To: "Meital Bourvine" < mbourvin at redhat.com >
> Cc: " users at ovirt.org " < Users at ovirt.org >
> Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2013 11:47:12 AM
> Subject: Re: [Users] VM not starting up
>
> Vdsm is running fine. Also checked the clocks. You were right, the Engine
> clock was 5 hours ahead of Node clock. I've corrected that but still the
> same issue.
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Meital Bourvine < mbourvin at redhat.com >
> wrote:
>
>
>
> Are you sure that vdsm is running?
>
> The error happened at 2013-12-31 11:32:56,999 (engine.log)
> but the last line in vdsm.log is from 2013-12-31 07:20:50,807
>
> Also make sure that your clocked are synced.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> From: "Nauman Abbas" < nauman.abbas at seecs.edu.pk >
> To: "Meital Bourvine" < mbourvin at redhat.com >
> Cc: " users at ovirt.org " < Users at ovirt.org >
> Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2013 9:39:09 AM
>
> Subject: Re: [Users] VM not starting up
>
> Sending files one by one. Vdsm.log
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Meital Bourvine < mbourvin at redhat.com >
> wrote:
>
>
>
> Engine log can be found on the engine (while vdsm.log is on the host).
> The full path is - /var/log/ovirt-engine/engine.log
>
> audit.log - /var/log/audit/audit.log
>
> About the vdsm log - I don't see any error there, I think that you cut too
> much from it.
>
>
>
>
> From: "Nauman Abbas" < nauman.abbas at seecs.edu.pk >
> To: "Meital Bourvine" < mbourvin at redhat.com >
> Cc: " users at ovirt.org " < Users at ovirt.org >
> Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2013 8:42:43 AM
> Subject: Re: [Users] VM not starting up
>
>
> Hello Meital
>
> SELinux is off. The cluster doesn't work if SELinux is on, my hosts and
> storage is showing up as okay but VM is not starting up.
>
> I've managed to get vdsm.log but cannot find engine.log and audit.log.
> Sorry for being a noob, if you can tell me the path to these files I'll
> send them right away.
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Meital Bourvine < mbourvin at redhat.com >
> wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi Nauman,
>
> Maybe it's a selinux issue?
> Please try running `setenforce 0` before starting the vm.
>
> Also please attach engine.log, vdsm.log, and audit.log
>
>
>
>
> From: "Nauman Abbas" < nauman.abbas at seecs.edu.pk >
> To: " users at ovirt.org " < Users at ovirt.org >
> Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2013 7:13:01 AM
> Subject: [Users] VM not starting up
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> First of all thank you for your help, I've finally managed to get my
> Cluster configured properly but now that I create VMs I'm facing another
> problem. Whenever I start my VM I get this error.
>
> " VM TestVm is down. Exit message: Child quit during startup handshake:
> Input/output error."
>
> I've googled around but haven't found any satisfactory solution. If anyone
> can help out it would be great.
>
> Regards
>
> Nauman Abbas
> Assistant System Administrator (LMS),
> Room No. A-207, SEECS,
> National University of Sciences & Technology,
> + 92 321 5359946
>
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> Nauman Abbas
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>
>
>
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> Nauman Abbas
> Assistant System Administrator (LMS),
> Room No. A-207, SEECS,
> National University of Sciences & Technology,
> + 92 321 5359946
>
>
>
>
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> Nauman Abbas
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> Room No. A-207, SEECS,
> National University of Sciences & Technology,
> + 92 321 5359946
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> Nauman Abbas
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> Room No. A-207, SEECS,
> National University of Sciences & Technology,
> + 92 321 5359946
>
> Paste your logs to fpaste.org or similar and put the url in the mail.
> Your snippets don‘t contain any errors that i can see.
>
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Nauman Abbas
Assistant System Administrator (LMS),
Room No. A-207, SEECS,
National University of Sciences & Technology,
+ 92 321 5359946
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