[ovirt-users] starting VDSM gives "libvir: XML-RPC error : authentication failed: authentication failed" error

[Itamar Heim]

On 07/22/2014 07:55 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Chris Adams <cma at cmadams.net> said:
>> Once upon a time, ybronhei <ybronhei at redhat.com> said:
>>> On 07/21/2014 01:45 AM, Jorick Astrego wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Some more info, I think this is the problem and I also have it on the
>>>> node image:
>>>>
>>>> Jul 20 22:41:49 localhost libvirtd: unable to open Berkeley db
>>>> /etc/libvirt/passwd.db: No such file or directory
>>>>
>>> Hey
>>>
>>> Did you check if libvirtd services is up?
>>> can you share libvirtd.conf file?
>>> I'm not sure what is exactly the issue, but you can try "vdsm-tool
>>> configure --module libvirt" command to see if you set the vdsm
>>> configuration for libvirt as required.
>>
>> I see the same thing with a new 3.5-beta install.  libvirtd is running;
>> I ran the above vdsm-tool command, but that made no difference.
>
> The problem is that /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/vdsm/constants.py
> (from vdsm-python-4.16.0-3.git601f786.el6.x86_64) sets EXT_SASLPASSWD2
> to /sbin/saslpasswd2, but the binary is actually in /usr/sbin.
>
> I fixed that and manually set the password (and fixed the ovirt-ha* init
> scripts), but still can't deploy a 3.5-beta hosted engine.  When
> configuring the management bridge, it leaves the interface down (both
> the bridge and the underlying interface); I brought them back up, but
> the setup then hits this:
>
> [ INFO  ] Verifying sanlock lockspace initialization
> [ ERROR ] Failed to execute stage 'Misc configuration': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
>
> I see this in the setup log:
>
> ########################################################################
> 2014-07-22 11:27:39 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/sanlock/lockspace.py", line 163, in _misc
>      lockspace + '.metadata': md_size,
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ovirt_hosted_engine_ha/lib/storage_backends.py", line 336, in create
>      service_size=size)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ovirt_hosted_engine_ha/lib/storage_backends.py", line 268, in create_volume
>      raise RuntimeError(response["status"]["message"])
> RuntimeError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
> 2014-07-22 11:27:39 ERROR otopi.context context._executeMethod:161 Failed to execute stage 'Misc configuration': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
> ########################################################################
>
> Not sure what is happening there.
>

is there a bug to track this?