[Users] Self-hosted-engine setup error

[Yedidyah Bar David]

Hi Giuseppe, 

----- Original Message -----

> From: "Giuseppe Ragusa" <giuseppe.ragusa at hotmail.com>
> To: "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi at redhat.com>
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2014 1:34:04 AM
> Subject: RE: [Users] Self-hosted-engine setup error

> Hi Didi,
> sorry for the delay in reporting final results.

> I can confirm that simply creating /etc/pki/libvirt suffices: the "private"
> subdir gets automatically correctly created (along with all certificates
> etc.) and setup completes fine.

OK, thanks for reporting... 

> It did not start up because of BZ #1075126 (HA agent died) but I noticed (by
> chance) that there is an updated (18/03/2014) workaround and after manually
> applying it (no oVirt new packages have been published yet) the Engine VM
> started fine.

> Now I'm battling with an (apparently) GlusterFS (3.5.0beta4) bug that makes
> the (NFS based, but Gluster-provided) Engine storage domain shutdown by
> itself after a while (causing Engine VM to die).

> Many thanks again for your support,
> Giuseppe

> PS: would you suggest a complete reinstall with GlusterFS 3.4.x stable
> instead? ;>

No idea, I have zero experience with glusterfs. 

> PS2: sorry for top-posting (but Hotmail keeps failing on proper quoting...)

:-( 
-- 
Didi 

> From: giuseppe.ragusa at hotmail.com
> To: didi at redhat.com
> Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 15:14:07 +0100
> CC: users at ovirt.org
> Subject: Re: [Users] Self-hosted-engine setup error

> Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 05:14:39 -0400
> From: didi at redhat.com
> To: giuseppe.ragusa at hotmail.com
> CC: users at ovirt.org
> Subject: Re: [Users] Self-hosted-engine setup error

> > From: "Giuseppe Ragusa" <giuseppe.ragusa at hotmail.com>
> 
> > To: "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi at redhat.com>
> 
> > Cc: users at ovirt.org
> 
> > Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2014 2:15:18 AM
> 
> > Subject: RE: [Users] Self-hosted-engine setup error
> 

> > Hi Didi,
> 

> > Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 02:46:50 -0400
> 
> > From: didi at redhat.com
> 
> > To: giuseppe.ragusa at hotmail.com
> 
> > CC: users at ovirt.org
> 
> > Subject: Re: [Users] Self-hosted-engine setup error
> 

> > > From: "Giuseppe Ragusa" <giuseppe.ragusa at hotmail.com>
> > 
> 
> > > To: users at ovirt.org
> > 
> 
> > > Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 2:38:42 AM
> > 
> 
> > > Subject: [Users] Self-hosted-engine setup error
> > 
> 

> > > Hi all,
> > 
> 
> > > while attempting a from-scratch self-hosted-engine installation on CentOS
> > > 6.5
> > > (also freshly reinstalled from scratch) on a physical node (oVirt
> > > 3.4.0_pre
> > > + GlusterFS 3.5.0beta4; NFS storage for engine VM), the process fails
> > > almost
> > > immediately with:
> > 
> 

> > > [root at cluster1 ~]# ovirt-hosted-engine-setup
> > > --config-append=/root/ovhe-setup-answers.conf
> > 
> 
> > > [ 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: ['/root/ovhe-setup-answers.conf']
> > 
> 
> > > Log file:
> > > /var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup-20140313010526.log
> > 
> 
> > > Version: otopi-1.2.0_rc3 (otopi-1.2.0-0.9.rc3.el6)
> > 
> 
> > > [ INFO ] Hardware supports virtualization
> > 
> 
> > > [ INFO ] Bridge ovirtmgmt already created
> > 
> 
> > > [ INFO ] Stage: Environment packages setup
> > 
> 
> > > [ INFO ] Stage: Programs detection
> > 
> 
> > > [ INFO ] Stage: Environment setup
> > 
> 
> > > [ INFO ] Generating VDSM certificates
> > 
> 
> > > [ ERROR ] Failed to execute stage 'Environment setup': [Errno 2] No such
> > > file
> > > or directory: '/etc/pki/libvirt/clientcert.pem'
> > 
> 

> > I already got another such report yesterday - seems like a bug in the fix
> > for
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1034634 .
> 
> > I hope to push a fix later today.
> 

> > I look forward to have the fix pushed/merged in actual packages.
> 

> > > [ INFO ] Stage: Clean up
> > 
> 
> > > [ INFO ] Stage: Pre-termination
> > 
> 
> > > [ INFO ] Stage: Termination
> > 
> 

> > > The /root/ovhe-setup-answers.conf has been saved from a previous
> > > installation
> > > (before reinstalling) and only minimally edited (removed some lines with
> > > UUIDs etc.).
> > 
> 

> > > The /etc/pki/libvirt dir is completely missing on both nodes; last time I
> > > tried the whole setup I do not recall of having such problems, but maybe
> > > something was different then.
> > 
> 

> > > The generated
> > > /var/log/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup-20140313010526.log
> > > has been saved as:
> > 
> 

> > > http://pastebin.com/ezAJETBN
> > 
> 

> > > I hope to be able to progress further to test the whole 2-nodes setup
> > > (second
> > > node freshly reinstalled too and already up with GlusterFS and waiting to
> > > be
> > > added to oVirt cluster) and datacenter configuration.
> > 
> 

> > > Many thanks in advance for any suggestions/help,
> > 
> 

> > For now, you can simply:
> 
> > mkdir /etc/pki/libvirt
> 

> > This should be enough.
> 

> > The workaround works: the self-hosted-engine installation proceeds now.
> 

> > Thanks for the report!
> 
> > --
> 
> > Didi
> 

> > Many thanks for your kind and prompt assistance,
> 
> > Giuseppe
> 

> Thanks for the report. The workaround is probably not enough, depends on what
> you
> are trying to do. 'mkdir /etc/pki/libvirt/private' is needed too. Without it,
> the code that
> copies there a key will create a file 'private' instead of copying it into a
> directory 'private'.

> Fix [1] was merged to all branches.

> [1] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/25747

> Best regards,
> --
> Didi

> Hi Didi,
> the workaround seemed actually to be enough to make the self-hosted-engine
> setup go through up to the end without any user-visible error, but it left
> me with a non-running Engine VM afterwards (basically it did not restart up
> automatically under HA protection).

> I collected all logs and reported it in a separate message with subject
> "Self-hosted engine setup ok but no engine vm running‏ " but got no comments
> yet.

> If I get no suggestions I will try to perform some "corrective actions" based
> on my understanding of the problems at hand, but I did not want to "corrupt"
> the exact state to help in debugging (starting again from scratch with full
> first node reinstallation is a somewhat lenghty process since I have no
> local repo mirrors).

> Many thanks again,
> Giuseppe

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Didi 
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